Synopsis:
Sometimes, the most perfect families are hiding the most terrible secrets. How well do you know the people next door…?
Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, the Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and John seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn.
But soon people start to notice: why don’t they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather than inviting you in?
Every family has secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to come out. As a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, the dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens. And one by one the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests begin to realise: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.
I bought this book because it was $3.99 on Kindle. It also had over 11,000 reviews. I have learned, however, that books rated high with thousands of reviews are not necessarily the best. But…it was $3.99 so…yea.
Now, I didn’t LOVE this book, but I didn’t HATE it! I want more action and suspense in books. This one was just sort of blah (for me…but apparently not for the thousands of others who read the book). I do appreciate the attempt to write a book from various perspectives that show us how our assumptions about events and others are not necessarily factual. We are all guilty of assuming falsely about others only to later learn the truth.
Not sure what else to say except if you need a cheap book, here you go.
