The House Across the Street

<p><strong>Perfect families have the most to hide...</strong></p><p><br></p><p>I feel so lucky to live in a gorgeous house with my precious daughter on Riverside Road surrounded by green hills and well-tended gardens. I'm just across from the <strong>Taylors</strong> who were a second family to me when I was growing up. But late at night I spot someone in the house across the street. <strong>Someone who shouldn't be there... </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Lily Taylor</strong> and I are best friends and closer than sisters but life in our idyllic neighbourhood comes to a shuddering halt when I find Lily's father murdered in his own bed. As I break the news to Lily I swear to her that I'll do everything I can to help her family.<strong> Who could possibly have done this? </strong></p><p><br></p><p>I tell the police but while they're trying to find the killer I start getting threatening notes that leave me shaking with fear. Then someone throws a brick through my eleven-year-old daughter Cassie's bedroom window covering her in shards of broken glass. As I stand in her wrecked bedroom I make a choice. <strong>I am desperate to help Lily get justice but my daughter's safety has to come first. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Even when I stop helping with the investigation the messages keep coming. Someone knows what I saw and I'm terrified they'll come for my little girl next.<strong> But they've underestimated me. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>No matter how far I have to go I'll always protect the people I love... </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>An astonishingly gripping psychological thriller with a truly shocking twist from <em>USA Today</em> bestseller Jill Childs! If you love Sally Hepworth <em>The Woman in the Window</em> or Liane Moriarty you'll adore this up-all-night addictive thriller. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>What readers are saying about Jill Childs:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>????? 'I was <strong>completely hooked</strong>... <strong>utterly impossible to put down! Wow!</strong> I read it from cover to cover in <strong>one sitting</strong>... stunning.' Goodreads reviewer</p><p><br></p><p>????? '<strong>OMG!!!! WHAT DID I JUST READ!?!?! MIND-BLOWN!!!!</strong>... <strong>Absolutely addictive</strong> and had me <strong>sucked in from the first page</strong> until the <strong>explosive</strong> ending... I couldn't stop listening to this book until <strong>early hours of the morning</strong>... Completely <strong>blew my mind</strong>... Absolutely <strong>hooked</strong>... Absolutely <strong>mind-blowing</strong>... <strong>Never in a million years</strong> I would have guessed the <strong>bombshell</strong> that <strong>hit me in the last few pages!!!</strong>... Absolutely <strong>addictive</strong> book!!... I LOVED it.' <em>Bookworm86</em></p><p><br></p><p>????? '<strong>Oh my god!!!!</strong>... This book <strong>swallowed me up!!!!</strong> I was absolutely invested right from the beginning... A must read! I <strong>did not see the twist coming</strong>.' <em>@cathys.current.reads</em></p><p><br></p><p>????? 'A <strong>SHOCKING</strong> twist at the end that <strong>I never saw coming</strong>... <strong>Wow!</strong> I <strong>literally gasped</strong> out loud!' Goodreads reviewer</p><p><br></p><p>????? '<strong>Wow</strong> if I could give this 10 stars I would. What an <strong>amazing</strong> book... <strong>Fantastic twist</strong> at the end can't recommend this book enough. Definitely the best book I've read all year.' NetGalley reviewer</p><p><br></p><p>????? '<strong>Wow</strong> it does <strong>take your breath away</strong>... absolutely loved this book and <strong>couldn't put it down</strong>... fantastic.' Carol Drinkwater</p>