She craftily stuffed agile narratives with uniquely compelling characters who kept me a bit on edge and curious to know more about each one, although I wouldn’t want to share air with any of them.TARA LASKOWSKI’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Critics, and the Library of VA Literary awards. The author is new to me and I enjoyed her writing style and hope to read much more of it in the future as her prose was smartly provocative yet easy to follow and called up sharp visuals behind my eyes. This was cleverly paced and shrewdly plotted with just the right levels of humor and irony to temper the intrigue and needling angsty suspense that kept tickling my gray matter. I’d built a castle on top of a snake’s nest. The perfect house in the perfect neighborhood. The perfect house on the hill that I’d had to have. We passed gossip around our group like a bottle of wine- plenty for everyone. …she was about as clever as a pipe cleaner. An army with moisturizing sunscreen and Kate Spade purses, doused in St. The women stood between two cafeteria tables, four of them with slight smiles, heads cocked at the same angle, a united front. But when a twisted plot is revealed, with dangerous consequences, their steady foundation begins to crumble, leaving only one certainty: after this year’s block party, Ivy Woods Drive will never be the same.įrom award-winning author Tara Laskowski, The Mother Next Door is an atmospheric novel of domestic suspense in which the strive for perfection ends in murder… They’ll do anything to protect their families. This year’s block party should be the best yet… until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the quiet neighborhood’s dark past-and the lengths they’ve gone to hide it.Īs secrets seep out and the threats intensify, the Ivy Five must sort the loyal from the disloyal, the good from the bad. When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again.
An influential group of neighborhood moms-known as the Ivy Five-plan the event for months.Įxcept the Ivy Five have been four for a long time.
The annual block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul de sac Ivy Woods Drive. For fans of Lisa Jewell, Aimee Molloy, and Joshilyn Jackson, an upmarket suspense novel from a multi-award-winning author about a tightknit group of suburban mothers who invite a new neighborhood mom into their fold, and the fallout the night of the annual block party, when secrets from the past come back to haunt them…
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