The New Neighbor: A Thriller

by Carter Wilson

Overview

"The New Neighbor is a dizzying descent into a Byzantine maze of psychological suspense. Carter Wilson proves once again why he is one of the best most inventive thriller writers working today." — S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland

USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson returns with another chilling psychological thriller, for readers of Megan Miranda and Alex Michaelides

Aidan holds the winning Powerball numbers.

Is today the best day of his life… or the worst?

Aidan Marlowe is the superstitious type—he's been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years, never hitting the jackpot. Until now. On the day of his wife's funeral.

Aidan struggles to cope with these two sudden extremes: instant wealth beyond his imagination, and the loss of the only woman he's ever loved, the mother of his twin children. But the money gives him and his kids options they didn't have before. They can leave everything behind. They can start a new life in a new town. So they do.

But a huge new house and all the money in the world can't replace what they've lost, and it's not long before Aidan realizes he's merely trading old demons for new ones. Because someone is watching him and his family very closely. Someone who knows exactly who they are, where they've come from, and what they're trying to hide. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want…

"Carter Wilson's writing is evocative and intense, his characters deeply flawed yet relatable."—Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight for The Dead Husband

"A smashing story about families and secrets and all the things you don't want to know about the people closest to you. Read it!"—David Bell, USA Today bestselling author for The Dead Husband

More books by Carter Wilson:

The Dead Husband

The Dead Girl in 2A

Mister Tender's Girl

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728247526
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	106,367
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Carter Wilson is the USA Today bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed, standalone psychological thrillers. He is an ITW Thriller Award finalist, a five-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his works have been optioned for television and film. Carter lives outside of Boulder, Colorado.

Editorial Reviews

02/28/2022

Widower Aidan Marlowe, the narrator of this disquieting psychological thriller from Wilson (The Dead Husband), is at his wife’s grave the day of her funeral when his phone vibrates. Among his text messages is one informing him that he has won $30 million in the Powerball lottery. A few weeks later, he has moved from Baltimore with his seven-year-old twins to the small town of Bury, N.H., a destination chosen on impulse. As soon as he crosses the threshold of his imposing new house, he feels a shift in air pressure: “It’s heavy and heady, a Bordeaux of tingles.” He discovers that the previous owner, Logan Yates, an investment banker in his 70s, “just left the house one day and never came back.” Almost immediately Aidan finds the first of a series of threatening notes, signed “We Who Watch.” Aidan begins to suspect that the threats are somehow tied to the disappearance of Yates and his family. Wilson skillfully piles on the creepiness, ratcheting up the tension as Aidan’s world starts spinning out of control, though not every mystery is resolved by the end. Megan Miranda fans will be satisfied. Agent: Pamela Ahearn, Ahearn Agency. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

"A truly suspenseful and gripping read. I was filled with anxiety and on the edge of my seat throughout. Bravo!" — Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer’s Wife

"Damn you. Wilson, I was up all night with this book. The mysteries of Bury are perfectly placed, the tension is thick enough to drown in, and the pages fly by. Brilliant escapism. I can't recommend it highly enough." — Stuart Turton, internationally bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water

"The New Neighbor is a dizzying descent into a Byzantine maze of psychological suspense. Carter Wilson proves once again why he is one of the best most inventive thriller writers working today." — S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland

"A disquieting psychological thriller from Wilson...skillfully piles on the creepiness, ratcheting up the tension as Aidan’s world starts spinning out of control. Megan Miranda fans will be satisfied. " — Publishers Weekly

"Some truly frightening scenes lead to a gripping and satisfying conclusion, but not before a twist that will leave readers’ heads spinning. Marlowe is memorable —single dads in thrillers aren’t that common—but mainly he will stay with readers because of his offbeat vulnerability and the determination that shines through his grief. Wilson’s (The Dead Girl in 2A) unusual psychological thriller is one for fans of Stephen King who are open to reading mysteries." — First Clue

"I can never resist a book with a well-written, unreliable narrator, and Carter Wilson nails just that in his tautly written thriller, The New Neighbor. I couldn’t bear to put this page-turner down until I figured out every single detail in Wilson’s suspenseful and twist-ridden story of loss, mourning, and new starts that asks if money can ever buy happiness and even if it does—at what cost?" — Emily Bleeker, Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author

"The New Neighbor are signing up for a ride on a frenetic and terrifying rollercoaster: it’s a top notch domestic thriller." — Criminal Element

"Eerie, disturbing, and violent, Wilson’s psychological thriller packs a real punch, with a shocker of an ending." — Booklist

From the Publisher

2022-01-12
Wilson returns to Bury, New Hampshire, where a painfully widowed millionaire takes up residence in a house even more troubled than he is.

In the middle of his wife Holly’s memorial service after she’s died of an aneurysm at 34, Baltimore bartender Aidan Marlowe learns that the numbers he’s been playing twice a week for many years have hit a $29.8 million Powerball jackpot. Marlowe, a dissociative type who can sense energies most people can’t, though he often fades out of the picture for hours on end, decides to move to upscale Bury and buy a house that was owned by investment banker Logan Yates before he vanished along with several members of his family. He soon begins to get insinuatingly creepy letters welcoming him to Bury and signed “WE WHO WATCH.” His questions to Abril, the longtime Yates housekeeper, net just enough information to make him feel that he and his 7-year-old twins, Maggie and Bo, need more protection, but his visit to Police Chief Walter Sike produces nothing but bland assurances, and he’s unwilling to provide Sike’s friend and security consultant Owen Brace with the personal information required to take the wholesale measures Brace urges. Soon after a housewarming party flushes out the news that Marlowe’s won the lottery, a secret he’s been determined to keep, WE WHO WATCH make it clear that they’re interested in Marlowe’s money, that they’re not going away, and that the violence they threaten won’t end with him. The big reveal, which goes on forever, strains credulity, but there’s no denying Wilson’s power to weave a dark web and keep making it darker and darker.

Stuck at home because of the pandemic? This is cheaper than moving, and it’ll make you feel better about staying put.

Kirkus Reviews