The Neighbour

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 *
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 *
Creepy as hell, and kept me guessing to the very end – Ian Rankin
A crime novel of the very first order – David Baldacci on The Collector
Trust me – Cummins is a keeper – Lee Child on The Collector
An excellent read – Martina Cole on Rattle
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 extraordinarily good writer. What a storyteller – Caz Frear
The Neighbour is nerve-janglingly creepy, beautifully written and full of surprises – Holly Seddon
[A] brilliant book. What a dark, creepy and twisted (in all senses of the word) tale – C. J. Tudor
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
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 storytellers – Amanda Reynolds
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
Tension that 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’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
Original, compelling and oh-so creepy. Stock up on the sugar because you might never dare pop next door again – Tammy Cohen
An original plot, brilliantly crafted with the wonderfully atmospheric storytelling that readers have come to expect from Fiona Cummins – Olivia Kiernan
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
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
Kept me guessing and second-guessing the whole way through. Storytelling at its best – Patricia Gibney
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
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
Incredibly creepy, intense and compelling. Excellent – Will Dean
Creepy, menacing genius – C. L. Taylor

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. It received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten and Into the Dark in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past. Fiona lives with her family in Essex.

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