This was another free read for my kindle from Amazon Prime. The description for The New Neighbour really grabbed me, you can read my personal review below but first here is the book.
The New Neighbour by Valerie Keogh
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Publication date : 2 Mar. 2026
Language : English
File size : 4.2 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 270 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1836178590
The Blurb
A quiet street holds deadly secrets… 🏡💥🩸
Chloe Tomson wants a quiet life. A new home, a new street, and no more drama – she’s had more than her share. But the moment she steps in to help her elderly neighbour during a violent altercation, the peace she craves begins to crumble.
The street seems friendly at first. Until the questions start. Who exactly is Chloe? Why did she move here? And what really happened in the house she lives in before she arrived?
As some neighbours become friends and others become enemies, it isn’t always certain which is which. Because Chloe isn’t the only neighbour keeping secrets…and someone knows the truth about her past. Someone who wants her gone.
But as whispers turn to threats, Chloe realises she’s been here before. And last time, not everyone made it out alive…
My Review of the New Neighbour
I have mixed feelings about this book. It trundles along nicely as Chloe, an ex convict, moves to a new area, and despite not really wanting to connect, she ends up making two new friends, including her next door neighbour.
All the time Chloe is consumed with her guilt of drunk driving and crashing the car, killing her friends and a stranger in the car she hit. That’s why she had been in prison, but now she was free to start again, but not free from her nightmares.
Her new friends seem way too friendly and forgiving and helpful. I’ve never suddenly met such people in my life. Chloe is very lucky, and I found this part a little weird, but maybe that’s just me. I did think they were going to end up being serial killers or something, but they were actually nice.
Chloe’s obsession with the past is also a little bit overdone. I get it, you wouldn’t get over something like that easily, but she’d just been in prison, which she never thinks about, but surely she had enough time to reflect during her incarceration?
Then there are the weird neighbours on the other side. They invite Chloe to dinner but in between dishing up a delicious meal and the wife getting drunk and verbally abusing her husband. The husband managed to sneak out and do something which is revealed later and is totally unbelievable.
Chloe suffers some abuse which she thinks she’s doing to herself but her new friends set her up with a door camera and we find the person who is putting stuff in her letterbox lives over an hour away by train. I couldn’t get my head around this.
The ending gives us some tension and fear and gets rather sticky for poor Chloe, but she is rescued by her old friend. Who then proceeds to tell her what actually happened the night of the accident.
It was a good story and it kept reading because I wanted to know what was going to happen. But the story just didn’t make sense in parts and I was left thinking yes, that was a good read, but I couldn’t believe half the stuff that happened.
Valerie Keogh has written a lot of books but I’ve not read any before. She must have a lot of fans who like her style.
