Thank you Minotaur and NetGalley for the eARC of What the Neighbors Saw.  All opinions in this review are my own.

There will be spoilers in this review because I don't know how to explain why I didn't like this book without giving away one of the larger plot points at the end.  You have been warned.

Alexis and her husband decide to buy a crumbling house in an affluent neighbor.  All seems well until one of their neighbors is found murdered.  Between the stress of home renovations and the more and more horrifying actions of their neighbors, Alexis is struggling.

I thought the set up with Teddy's murder and the concerning actions of other neighbors kept you reading because you weren't quite sure who could be responsible for the murder.  While this was definitely slower paced than other thrillers, there was enough happening to keep the story (and suspicion) moving.

I was really enjoying this sinster domestic thriller (even though I was hating Alexis's husband more and more as the story went on) until the big reveal.  I appreciate how difficult it is to make an exciting twist in a thriller, but making one of the married couples half-siblings at 80% of the book seemed so far out of left field I thought Alexis's suspicions would be laughed at by the other character.  The last 20% flew through the explanation of how this happened and why this character was actually the murderer.  While it was supposed to draw comparisons between Alexis and this character, both their mothers had been put in a position by powerful men and resented their daughters for it, it just made the story completely abandon the first 80% of the story.

All this being said, What the Neighbors Saw is the author's first book and since I enjoyed such a large chunk of the story, I would be interested in reading her next book.  Hopefully it doesn't involve any incest plotlines.