The new neighbor starts out as a page turner but then takes a turn which is why I am giving this 3.5 stars. Although it was one I needed to finish to see where it was going.

After Aidan loses his wife and wins the lottery, he packs up his family and moves to a new town for a new beginning. However he ended up with a house full of secrets and things from his past he couldn’t remember.


Thank you #netgalley for an advance copy of this novel.

Let me start off by saying that I have enjoyed Carter Wilson’s previous books so I went in expecting a banger. I’ll say that this one didn’t quite live up to my expectations but it wasn’t bad. I won’t go into the details of the plot when you can just read that yourself but it was a bit twisty and bizarre. I had my suspicions of the who dunnits about halfway in that turned out to be correct.

Thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the ARC of this book.

The New Neighbor is a fat paced psychological thriller full of unexpected twists. An enjoyable change of pace from the usual thriller.

Okay I have no idea what just happened...

I'm a big fan of Carter Wilson. Mister Tender's Girl was the first book of his that I read and I absolutely loved it and I've been devouring his new titles ever since. He has a magnificent ability to write a creepy eerie tale that is dark and psychological and atmospheric and both supernatural and utterly natural at the same time.

This one started out every bit as magical and immersive as they all have for me, but as things were nearing the end it felt like it jumped the shark and went in a totally different direction. I really have no idea what was up and what was down and what just happened... Things tidied together in a very very short time frame, but in a way that felt disjointed and didn't make sense to me. There were a million loose ends left hanging. Characters that had been introduced for no apparent reason other than as red herrings. Ditto entire plot lines. It felt unfinished as a result.

I don't feel that I have any sense of what I was supposed to take from this one beyond a heavy sense of confusion. It was quite unlike any of his other books for me in this regard, and I must admit that on the whole I was disappointed and mightily unsatisfied with/by that...

I thought this was going to be a psycho neighbor type thriller but this was so much more interesting and had so much depth. A truly suspenseful and beautifully written psychological and emotional thriller. Add this to your TBR when it comes out on April 12, 2022!

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...

Weellll Hufflepuff!

This is not your typical thriller in the least. Usually, we always here about woman who "suffers" from gaps or memory issues, but this time it's a father, Marlowe, after his wife passes away and oh! He also wins the lottery. There were intriguing things along the way - letters from "We Who Watch" about things about his past that happen in this new area he's moved into.
Now, I personally loved the little drops of nuggets along the way of this story, but the ending, sadly, just didn't do it for me. It was slightly unbelievable and felt a bit of a let down. While I enjoyed this unique perspective & the fast paced mystery; seeing the potential, the ending fell short.

Thank you to NetGalley for a chance to read this.
Release date: April, 2022

I give this 3 / 5 snowflakes! ❄️

I really wanted to like this book Bec it sounded really intriguing! A guy wins millions in the lottery on the day his wife dies. He picks up his twins and moves to rural New Hampshire into a creepy house?! C'mon, that sounds great!

However, the whole book I felt like I was mine something. The house seems like it's own character, but the big mystery including it is never solved which left me feeling annoyed. Apparently the author has another book set in this same town and house and although this one isn't a sequel it really seems like it's not a complete book on its own.

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Let me start by saying that I began this book thinking it was a thriller, especially because of the title, The New Neighbor. This would lead me to believe it was about a mysterious, possibly deranged person who moved in. No! It was such a surprise to find out that it was much more than that. This book encompasses the thriller, mystery, whodunnit, and psychological thriller genres. Carter Wilson does an extraordinary job switching over from one thought or circumstance to the next and then brings us right back to the beginning therefore, leaving our heads spinning trying to figure out the mystery.

Aidan Marlowe has two children who are twins and has just lost his wife recently. In addition to that he has now become a lottery millionaire. He moves to a random town, to get away from it all, and into a neighborhood full of people who know a lot about what happened in the house he has just moved into. Unbeknownst to him, some eerie conditions live within the walls of it. Aidan just wants to enjoy his kids and new money and begin his life again after the loss of his wife. However, someone finds out about the lottery money even though the state he lives in keeps the winner's names confidential. This is quite unfortunate for him and his kids.

We are taken on a mystery ride through the Marlowe family's attempt at a new beginning with suspects all over the place who may want his money. They are also trying to figure out what exactly happened in this new home. Nothing is as it seems in the home or neighborhood. The characters are built up well, especially the twins. We get to know them as they are compelling and somewhat sophisticated for their young age. Great read and I recommend it to people who love many genres but especially mysteries and thrillers.

Thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the ARC of this book. I always appreciate the opportunity to read and review books.

Can you imagine to win lottery at the moment you bury your own wife! Yes! After jaw dropping, heart wrenching and also extremely intriguing opening, you just hold your e-reader tighter and touch your screen to flip them faster. This book’s impressive start hooks you up!

The plot about widower Aidan Marlowe’s winning lottery ( just call him Marlowe) and moving to small town in New Hampshire named Bury ( because he found out he won the lottery at the exact minute they put his wife’s coffin into grave. ) with his seven years twin kids Bo and Maggs. But the house at 1734 Rum Hill Road they recently move has a complicated history with lots of disappearances including Logan Yates: an investment banker in his seventies left the house and never came back. His two daughters and his 11 years old grandson also shared the same destiny.

The mystery behind the house triggers the dark past and big secret Aidan keeps since his teenage years. It’s about his brother Christopher’s death. The moment he decided to share this secret at the grave of his wife, the lottery winning news intervenes his confession.

But now he starts suffering from time lapses in his memories and finding letters written for him by mysterious person who warns him about people call themselves “WE” are watching him day and night! They forbid him move out of the house.

Why those people watch him? What is the mystery about disappearances in the house?

Well, Aidan suffers from guilt feelings about his brother’s death ( we don’t know the man reason but we have several guesses) and anger management problems make us thing he slowly drift apart, hardly differentiating thin line between reality and delusions. This is great psychological thriller which gives us old school King novels’ vibes! Even though the culprit is so obvious, there’s a still delicious twist I truly enjoy!

I didn’t like one thing about the author’s decision to put one of the children into very inappropriate situation and I was expecting to get answers about some other parts of the mystery!

I still rounded up 3.5 stars to 4 : it’s still intriguing, smart, mind bending plot with short, strikingly effective chapters which end with powerful cliffhangers. I’m looking forward to try more works of the author.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

This was an interesting book. With a lot of short chapters it flowed really quickly and was very easy to read.

The characters were mostly likeable, but the idea the story is based on is quite bizarre.
To lose the person closest to you and then win a massive amount in the lottery and find out while you’re with your dead wife for the last time is quite bizarre. But it gives some back story not only to the husband and wife relationship, but the other relationships with his family that Aidan has experienced through his life.

Overall I quite enjoyed it.

It took me a while to make my way through this. I loved the concept - new widow wins the lottery the day of his wife's funeral and moves to a rich neighborhood only to be haunted by an unknown assailant. Is a dark secret coming to light? Is it just someone who wants his money? Is it the old owners who supposedly went missing? There was a lot this got right (this is one of the few times I've found children believable in this kind of novel), but the pacing was so off for me and I had to keep putting it down because of that.

This book wasn’t for me. It wasn’t bad though. It kept me Wondering who might be the bad guy. But it also drug on a bit too long for me

Enjoyable mystery, though I do think the "mysterious neighbors" plot is getting a little trite. I was a fan of Wilson's because of Mister Tender's Girl and The Dead Girl in 2A, so I was glad to see this one was good as well!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book. Unfortunately, I was just bored with this. From the opening line, I dreaded what was coming next. Sorry.

A thrilling, cat and mouse, high states mystery that takes hold right away and doesn't let up until the surprising end. Carter Wilson's new book explores the psychological forces that can tear a man apart when both his wildest dream and worst nightmare are delivered on the exact same day. With a mysterious town, a creepy mansion, and complex characters to unravel, The New Neighbor is impossible to put down until every last question is answered.

I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review and opinions. This is my first book by Carter Wilson and won't be my last. The amazing writing kept me engrossed and guessing until the very end. At times I thought I had figured it out but I was wrong! I highly recommend this book that will keep you up until all hours of the night reading!

7.5/10 - The concept of having your worst nightmares come true, as well as your wildest dreams and the aftermath of both events immediately drew me to this book - throw in a mansion with a spooky past, and I was absolutely in! I really enjoyed this book and the mystery of the what was happening as it went on, as well as the secrets the Aidan seemed to have and trying to figure out what that was. This book had a really different story than I expected, but I really did enjoy it and was curious the whole way through. My only complaint was the introduction of the mystery of the house and that it was left without us ever finding out what happened. While I know that’s realistic, as a reader I wanted to know what happened and if I can’t know I didn’t want to be teased with the story. Overall this was a pretty interesting read with a different premise and ending than others I had read.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of The New Neighbor.

I've read previous books by the author and the premise was intriguing so I was looking forward to this.

Sadly, it didn't meet my expectations for a number of reasons, starting with:

1. Marlowe. He gave me a weird vibe from the first page. And not in a good way. He goes by his last name, which is fine, but he's no Mulder and Scully. I have no idea why he goes by his last name. Is it because he think it makes him sound cool? How millennial of him.

He spouts off mumbo jumbo about how he gets vibes from the house, that he's meant to be there, which is never explained. The first of many loose ends never explained.

2. He's a bad parent/father. He downplays his childrens' fears of the house being creepy and unsettling because he's convinced he belongs in this house. Anyone else get The Shining vibes besides dear old dad?

He is similar to Jack Torrance; he's got a drinking problem; he ignores his children and their fears, he's fixated on the house and the vibes it gives him.

3. Second loose end: what happened to the previous occupants of this creepy house? Never fully explained.
This felt like filler the author added to pad the book.

4. Maya was a decent character, but sort of one dimensional. She's Marlow's lawyer, hired to help him properly invest his winnings so he doesn't end up bankrupt like so many lottery winners. Still, their rapport wasn't genuine, forced, to be a conduit for the feelings Marlowe suddenly has for her after the sudden loss of his wife. This so common literary device I could have done without.

5. The ending was very anti-climatic, as some reviewers have already noted, and a bit hard to suspend disbelief especially when Bo enters the scene. I had a hard time digesting that.

6. The writing was good, and the chapters were short so the narrative mostly flew by, yet at the same time, it dragged,

7. There was too much filler about the Yates' disappearances, the son-in-law, the flirty daughter, all of these characters really didn't add much to Marlow's predicament.

Some people might enjoy this, but I didn't like it as much as I had hoped.

I really didn’t like this one. I couldn’t connect with the narrative voice - it felt forced and fake to me. The story seemed ridiculous right off the bat - I just really struggled to believe his wife died and he won the lottery in a span of a week

Aidan Marlowe has lost his wife and the mother of his children. On the day of her funeral he gets some very unexpected news. He has won the lottery and will be in a financial situation that he and the kids can start over in a new town and leave their past behind. Or so they think! After purchasing a large home in Bury, New Hampshire, they find out that someone is watching them and knows many personal details about them. Who is this stalker and why are they harassing Aidan’s family?

This is the first book that I have read by Carter Wilson. I liked this storyline! The lottery win was a nice, unique spin that I have not seen in any other thriller books so far. The story was engaging and kept me guessing from start to finish. I would highly recommend THE NEW NEIGHBOR to all thriller fans!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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