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Watching You by Lisa Jewell
3.0

This is a who-done-it with multiple characters, they all live on a street in Bristol, they are all watching each other and they all have strange quirks or secrets. The chapters flick between characters and are interspersed with police interview script. So you know someone is dead but you aren't sure who the victim or the murder is, the more is revealed the more you read. Sadly, this book didn't meet the high expectations I associate Lisa Jewell with (her previous novel - Then She Was Gone was one of my best reads of 2017!), I found it predictable and far-fetched. Freddie was my favourite character he was flawed but loveable. Overall it isn't a bad read, the message in the story is a good one and the closing chapters were poignant but it certainly didn't hit the mark for me.