The Killer Next Door (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143126690)

"The Killer Next Door is even better than The Wicked Girls]. Scary as hell. Great characters." --Stephen King

Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn't, they wouldn't be renting rooms in a sketchy South London building for cash--no credit check, no lease. It's the kind of place you end up when you you've run out of other options. The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance. What they don't know is that one of them is a killer. He's already chosen his next victim, and he'll do anything to protect his secret.

Alex Marwood's debut novel The Wicked Girls earned her lavish praise from the likes of Elizabeth Haynes, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly and received the Edgar Award. Now, Marwood's back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how well do you know your neighbors?

"Taut, assured and reminiscent of Ruth Rendell's psychological novels, Marwood's second book more than lives up to the promise shown in her splendid debut, The Wicked Girls." --The Guardian

Author: Alex Marwood
ISBN-10: 0143126695
ISBN-13: 9780143126690
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Award: Anthony Awards - Nominee
Award: Macavity Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2014
Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 31
New York Times Book Review 10/19/2014 pg. 29
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 33

About the Author

Alex Marwood is the pseudonym of a journalist who has worked extensively across the British press. Her first novel, The Wicked Girls, won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and the Anthony and ITW Awards for Best Paperback Original. The Killer Next Door, her second novel, won a Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, was nominated for the Anthony and Barry, and has been optioned for film by James Franco and Ahna O'Reilly. Her third novel, The Darkest Secret, was published in 2016. Marwood lives in south London.