The Neighbour

Creepy, menacing genius -- C.L. Taylor Incredibly creepy, intense, and compelling. Excellent. -- Will Dean Fiona Cummins has concocted a frightening tale that's compulsive reading. I couldn't put it down, despite the fact that I started each new chapter with a creeping sense of dread and the hairs standing up on the back of my neck. -- Alison Belsham You'll be curtain twitching after reading this - a deeply unsettling and brilliantly claustrophobic novel that will have you questioning how well you know your neighbours. -- Michelle Frances Kept me guessing and second guessing the whole way through. Storytelling at its best. -- Patricia Gibney I was enthralled from beginning to end as every page drips with threat and menace [...] Totally gripping with a cast of ghastly characters, one worse than the next. -- Liz Nugent Fiona Cummins is the queen of all things dark and wonderful, and she writes so beautifully. It creeped me the hell out and I absolutely LOVED it -- Joanna Cannon An original plot, brilliantly crafted with the wonderfully atmospheric storytelling that readers have come to expect from Fiona Cummins. -- Olivia Kiernan Original, compelling and oh so creepy. Stock up on the sugar because you might never dare pop next door again. -- Tammy Cohen Fiona's books are so masterfully crafted and beautifully written [...] A disturbing observation of a community and the secrets hidden within it, a dark and compelling read. -- Debbie Howells Tension that creep creeps all the way through, but a pace and language so precise and right that it felt like I was watching a movie [...] This book will linger -- Hayley Webster Fiona Cummins drew me in from the very first page with her original and compelling prose. Dark, creepy and intense with brilliant characters and a clever plot with an ending I didn't see coming -- Jenny Quintana I could not stop reading, every turned page revealing secrets, increasingly strange and fascinating [...] I loved The Neighbour, a feat of masterful plotting from one of my favourite story tellers -- Amanda Reynolds Fiona is the mistress of tension building and the way she weaved that tangled web of suspects and motives left me breathless. Truly magnificent. -- Jo Spain [A] brilliant book. What a dark, creepy and twisted (in all senses of the word) tale! -- CJ Tudor The Neighbour is nerve-janglingly creepy, beautifully written and full of surprises -- Holly Seddon An extraordinarily good writer. What a storyteller -- Caz Frear It's a rare debut that has this much polish. Harrowing and horrifying, head and shoulders above most of the competition -- Val McDermid on Rattle An excellent read -- Martina Cole on Rattle Trust me - Cummins is a keeper -- Lee Child on The Collector A crime novel of the very first order -- David Baldacci on The Collector The Neighbour is masterfully written and intricately plotted to keep the reader captivated until a hugely enjoyable finale. -- Jon Coates * Daily Express * She is the master of depicting the way the most terrifyingly grotesque and evil psychopaths inveigle their way into the lives of ordinary people [...] when writing from the perspective of ordinary people caught up in horrific events, Fiona Cummins is unbeatable. -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express * This thriller explores typically dark territory for this author, who has a gift for tapping a rich seam of evil that underpins the surface of the every day. Superbly sinister. * Sunday Mirror *
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Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former Daily Mirror showbusiness journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing A Novel course. She lives in Essex with her family. The Neighbour is her third novel, following Rattle and The Collector.
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