The Wrong Neighbour

By: Caleb Crowe

Many thanks to Zooloo’s Book Tours, Inkubator Books, and Caleb Crowe for the gifted copy of this book.

About the Book

After a whirlwind romance, Megan and Nick move into the home of their dreams, a beautiful beach house.

They think it’s their happily ever after… until their neighbours return from a cruise.

Ron and Jackie are loud and obnoxious, playing their home cinema at high volume, and shattering the tranquillity with their endless building work. To cap it all, they have a kennel with four dangerous dogs that bark and howl day and night.

They are the living definition of the neighbours from hell.

Megan finds she is pregnant, and what should be a blissful dream for the couple instead becomes a gruelling nightmare. As their home turns into a battleground, their relationship starts to crumble under the relentless stress.

When Ron and Jackie lay claim to part of Megan and Nick’s garden, the young couple know they are in for a fight.

But they have no idea what their neighbours really want – or how far they will go to get it.

Their nightmare has only just begun …

My Review

When I saw that another Caleb Crowe book was available for a book tour, I rushed to get a spot on it. I enjoyed The Girl in the Painting SO much that I knew this one was going to be just as good. It. Did. Not. Disappoint!

I felt bad for Nick and Megan. They just wanted their dream house. Ron is absolutely disgusting. He’s creepy, rude, and just vindictive. His wife Jackie doesn’t seem so bad. While she knows of Ron’s behavior, she ignores it. It seems like Ron is the brains behind all of the things that happen to Nick and Megan. But no one is who they seem. And Crowe does a great job of peeling back the layers on each of these characters.

This book is very atmospheric. It’s written well, and is very fast paced. Which means you’ll fly through the book very quickly. I was on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen to Nick and Megan next, and how it was just all going to play out and end. And did it end – I never saw that ending coming from a mile away!!!!

There are some gruesome scenes and there is a scene where animals inflict cruelty to other animals – that was a little hard to read for me. So be aware of that when going into this book. While this was a slight departure from Crowe’s other book, it is a fantastic and a must read psychological thriller!

This is out now; you can find it here.

About the Author

Caleb Crowe is a British writer of psychological thrillers, and is fascinated by stories where extraordinary things happen to ordinary people, and the mundane is transformed into the menacing.

He’s afraid of the sea, fearful in the countryside, panicky in large open spaces and terrified of small, confined spaces. He finds eerily quiet villages and bustling impersonal cities equally unsettling. There’s nowhere, and no one, that doesn’t possess some kind of dark, brooding anxiety just waiting to have the lid prised open and turned into a twisty, suspenseful, nerve-shredding story.

He lives in Manchester with his partner, two children and two cats, who probably have their own mysterious agendas. Whether he’s navigating the urban jungle or wrestling with the daily challenges of family life, Caleb draws inspiration from the unpredictability of everyday existence.

This is his second psychological thriller with Inkubator Books.