The Woman Next Door - A BRAND NEW utterly unputdownable psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist, perfect for 2025!

She knows all your darkest secrets . . . Now she's the woman next door.

"It can't be. Please God, don't let it be. I left all that behind over twenty-five years ago. Didn't I?"

We've just got home after two weeks of sun, sea and relaxation when the doorbell rings. My husband answers and as soon as I hear her voice something jolts through me. It's adrenaline. My body is already in fight-or-flight mode.

It's been twenty-five years, but I'd know that laugh anywhere. I freeze. Don't let her in.

Now she's standing in my kitchen, smiling and shaking my husband's hand with her perfectly manicured nails. Stacy. She's our new next-door neighbour. What is she doing here? What does she want this time? I worked so hard to put the past behind me, to build this life for myself.

I will not let her take it from me.

An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist you just won't see coming. Perfect for fans of K.L Slater, Sue Watson and Shalini Boland and Dandy Smith.

About the author

Penny Batchelor is the Amazon bestselling author of psychological thrillers My Perfect Sister and Her New Best Friend. She is currently writing her fourth. Her short story, 'The Dilemma,' appears in UnLocked, an anthology to raise money for The Trussell Trust. Penny is a co-founder and judge of the ADCI Literary Prize for adult fiction by a disabled/chronically ill novelist. She lives in Warwickshire with her husband.

Product details

• Authors: Batchelor Penny
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781471416460
• ISBN: 978-1-4714-1646-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 199 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 224 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Women, Crime & mystery, True Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction, Family & relationships, Psychological thriller