You often know something is bubbling just beneath the surface of each character, and The Street, as a whole, but you won’t know what. They make friends with the next-door neighbors, but then those neighbors disappear, and the other people on the street are strangely unwilling to talk about them. They were welcomed by the neighbours next door, and they shared an Indian meal and quite a few drinks. So quick sum up, giving nothing away: Nimble plot + people taking all manner of wrong turns = Life on a cliff edge. Only Anna and Peter’s experience is accompanied by paranoia, incredibly odd neighbours, and a coastal location that harbours many-a-secret and not a single boat.

There were clunking, obvious attempts to make it an “interesting”, varied, relevant narrative by inserting App messages, WhatsApp group chats and a diary into the text. But before they’ve even unpacked, they discover that the community they’ve moved into might be keeping secrets of its own… Eager to fit in, Anna and Peter spend their first evening with their new neighbours, a couple who turn up on their doorstep to welcome them with open arms. When Ginny and Cat, sisters travel with their husbands into the idyllic Swiss Alps for a hiking vacation, it is not only an opportunity to take in all of the stunning scenery. Conniving women, regardless of how much THEY think they have been mistreated, do NOT deserve to get away with it!But I thought everyone living there were all witnesses for the SAME case, which actually would have been a better plot line, in my opinion. This is a story where you don't really have a character you like, they are all selfish or vengeful to the exptreem. I seriously loved how twisted it was and once the twists start, they came thick and fast and I could feel my excitement growing with each page turned. And they’ve found just the place: a perfect house on a perfect street in a perfect new development on the Scottish coast. For example, one minute Anna throws a piece of paper on the floor - but the next minute Peter takes it from her hand.

I think both sisters featured were pretty spiteful, awful people, who were happy to tell lies all their lives, so neither endeared themselves to me. They have a lot of fun their first night, have dinner together and lots of drinks, and then go their separate ways. Mark Billingham “Tense, creepy and utterly brilliant…” ―Jenny Blackhurst, author of The Hiking Path “A brilliant concept, superbly executed.I bought this book because Ian Rankin rated it in a recent Guardian article of what authors were reading. I didn't find the ending too satisfying (which I had also noted on the other book of hers I read) but there are plenty of twists 'n' turns throughout which kept me gripped. Anna and Peter start to doubt themselves, and are wondering what other secrets are hidden in The Street. terribly written characters who throughout the book make stupid decisions andlie to themselves/reader to confuse the reader( but clumsy written so not as cool as it sounds) just sucks. It is well-paced, with good characters and an uncompromising theme of secrets, lies and the bane of social media.

Anna, while battling a growing obsession with this mystery, finds she is getting increasingly paranoid. It’s an opportunity to reconnect with each other after years of drifting apart—and patch up marriages that are straining at the seams. I just seemed like the reasons for people's words and actions didn't match with the reality of the situation.The all new and soulless community reminded me of the setting for Tana French’s Broken Harbour, we have a strong sense that something is not quite right about it. When Holly, her daughter, has this horrible accident, Chrissie doesn’t have any option but to enter into this program. He described it as follows: “Nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted in this brilliant page-turner.

If you have read the book and are reading these spoilers, I'm hoping everything I'm saying is making sense because it won't make any sense to anyone else. As I said before, even without all of the flaws I thought there were, it was still an easy read and also entertaining enough to keep me reading.This book was trying hard to be fast paced and full of end of chapter cliff hangers but it just seemed to flit about. As she battles a growing obsession with the mystery, Anna finds herself becoming increasingly paranoid. However even after Holly makes a miraculous recovery, Chrissie is just convinced that it’s some coincidence. Just when I thought that there couldn't possibly be any more contrived developments, another ridiculously convenient mechanism would be used to twist the plot into the desired position. shrug* 3) Then there was the ominous feeling you were supposed to feel even though there really wasn't anything ominous going on, other than the fact that three of the witnesses being protected were found so easily by the people they were being protected from, but that's not even what felt ominous.