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Watching You

Written by: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
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Publisher's Summary

New York Times and number-one Sunday Times best-selling author and “brilliant storyteller” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) Lisa Jewell weaves another suspenseful thriller about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies.

Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It’s the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It’s not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back 30 times with a kitchen knife in their own homes.

Someone must have seen something.

Newlywed Joey Mullen, for example, recently returned from four years of working in Ibiza. She and her husband, Alfie, are eager to find a place of their own in her hometown. But Joey finds herself distracted by the man next door, Tom Fitzwilliam. He’s the principal of the local high school, twice her age, and devastatingly attractive. What starts as an innocent infatuation soon escalates into fixation, and before long, Joey can’t keep her eyes off of Tom.

Or the principal’s son, Freddie, who dreams of working as a spy and has been developing his surveillance skills by keeping meticulous logs of the coming and goings in the area. And, as he approaches his 15th birthday, his attention - and his lens - are turning more and more toward the local women.

Or perhaps single mother Frances Tripp, who has long been convinced she is being stalked. Her teenage daughter, Jenna, is worried these delusions are signs of her mother’s deteriorating mental health, particularly now that her paranoia has found a specific target: Tom Fitzwilliam. Frances is determined to keep an eye on him until she can prove he is behind her persecution.

Twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam.

Nobody knows why this horrific murder was committed, but someone in Melville Heights knows who did it. As the community’s fearful eyes turn on each other, the question remains:

Who else is watching?

©2018 Lisa Jewell. Originally published in Great Britain in 2018 by Penguin Random House UK. (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

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Great read

Narrator was great, story was great, everything ties nicely together! Suspenseful. Many story lines from many characters makes it interesting. Overall, highly recommended!!

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Wow! Couldn’t stop listening to this!

I feel like this genre is sort of hit and miss... but this one is excellent! Very well written story. Narrating is relaxing and enjoyable.

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  • 2021-01-16

This is not a book I would recommend to others

Although initially interesting this story dragged on and on, long past its "best before" date. The characters are poorly developed, lacking credibility and depth. The plot feels contrived. By the time I got to the second half of this book, I found myself repeatedly checking how much time there was left to go until the end. I kept listening only because I was curious to find out who the person responsible for the crime would be.

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Forced myself to finish this...

I have listened to other Lisa Jewell novels and was really disappointed by this one. It was incredibly boring and to be honest... I forced myself to finish it. I kept hoping the pace would pick up... but it didn’t. Very boring. Don’t recommend.

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Very disappointing!

I’ve enjoyed her other books but Watching You fell flat. Pure fluff veiled in less than salient detail and muddled characters.

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Excellent Mystery

Really enjoyed the twists and turns of the story - and how the author weaves the threads of clues and details into a complex but totally readable / listenable book. Definitely plan to listen to more Lisa Jewell novels!

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Disappointing

So very slow to get started and overall quite disappointing. I only really enjoyed the last few chapters

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  • 2024-03-18

As per usual lisas writing makes it hard to put down

Could could not put this one down, i am always slightly confused at the start of any of lisa Jewel's novels but now i know that the pieces will tumble together and make sense when that happens you have to keep listening to see if your conclusion was right

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Another brilliant offering

Lisa Jewell has once again produced a riveting story. It is impossible to stop listening. She has the unique skill of combining the most horrific characters and events with others you root for from the very beginning, despite always fluctuating suspicions about who did what.

I have to mention though, Jewell’s ongoing obsession with how people and things smell. This being the fifth book of hers I listened to I had decided to keep a record of the many “smell” mentions. I had to stop two hours into the eleven hour recitation because I found it interfering with my ability to follow the plot. In those first two hours there were thirteen unique and detailed descriptions of smells, most of them bad. I’m sure the author doesn’t realize she does this. Perhaps it’s simply a quirk of my own that drove me to notice it.

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Relatable and likeable characters

Enough doubt and mystery to keep me going. Good listen. Not a gripping as some of Jewell’s work but I still needed to know the ending.

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