This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

I have to admit that the book started a bit slow. I wasn't sure I would even finish but I had a feeling it would get better and it certainly did!

I loved the story building and the suspense. It kept me guessing the entire book.

Thank you for giving me this opportunity.

Karen Cleveland does a good job of presenting a protagonist of rather dubious mental health and producing a story out of her that kept my interest. Sure, I often thought she was just batty, the protagonist, not Karen, but there was a hook there that kept me reading. Now I don't trust my neighbors, and I even wonder why the author says her surname is Cleveland. Is that a clue?
Thanks NetGalley for the ARC.

Thank you Netgalley and Ballantine Books for an eARC of The New Neighbor by Karen Cleveland! This was my first read by this author and now I need to add her entire backlist to my TBR.

I’m a huge fan of suspenseful books that are set in an idyllic neighborhood where everyone seemingly has the perfect family and life. This book puts an interesting spin on things by following main character Beth, a CIA analyst, in this espionage thriller that doesn’t disappoint as she tracks down “The Neighbor”. I wasn’t expecting to love a spy thriller so much and found myself unable to put this one down. Everyone has secrets - Who can Beth trust? Surely her neighbors that she’s known for nearly 20 years, right?

This book is a nail-biter and also gets you thinking about how these things likely do happen in the real world - Something that we don’t think of typically unless it has an effect on us directly. Thank you for the entertaining read Karen!

Lies and spy’s. This book is full of them. If you like sleeper spy’s, the CIA and deep weave of deception then you will love this book. Beth is very smart, but she loses her, husband, her house and her position in the CIA all in the same day. I enjoyed following her as she worked her way through solving who The Neighbor was. This book is cleverly written and the ending was quite a surprise. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced free copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

She’s been working in the CIA for years trying to identify the “Neighbor” who is purportedly recruiting agents. She thinks she’s close to solving the mystery when she is unexpectedly transferred to another division - and all access to her files is denied. Undaunted, she forges ahead and finds the Neighbor - or does she? Clever ending!

This was an interesting story. Especially with all that is going on in the world right now. It's scary to think that something like this probably has been attempted at many points in our history.

Beth is going through some big life changes. Her final child going off to college and find out that the marriage she hoped to repair was actually over. To top it all off she's moving away from the friends that have become more like family over the years.

Slowly Beth starts to realize that everything isn't as it seems with the person who purchased her house. It seems she's been hiding who she really is and what her intentions are. Beth is the only one who seems to notice and she makes it her mission to find out what's really going on around "her" cul-de-sac.

A thought provoking and mind engaging story that will have you trying to figure out the truth right up until the end.

The New Neighbor is a book by Karen Cleveland. Fast paced thriller, and a page turner ! This books has you guessing the whole time. I highly recommend it.

Thank you NetGalley for this Arc !

Beth lives in a cul de sac, close to her neighbors and works for the cia who are also part of the CIA actually the whole neighborhood is filled with CIA employees.
Beth and her husband mike have raised three kids here and made a life. However when the youngest goes off to college her world seems to fall apart.

Her role in the CIA is to find who the neighbor is, for over 15 years she been trying to figure out who the identity of this person is. After a mini vacation, taking her son to college. she comes back and find herself off the case the ones she has been on for years and no one will tell her why. At the same time she has put her house up for sale in the cul de sac, to downsize since no kids are left at home.

Then her husband leaves her and Beth is alone, she starts obsessing over the wine who moved in to her house and with the clues she seen and knows how the neighbor works she can’t let it go ? So who is this neighbor and how well do you know your?

I got sucked in at the beginning but parts of the story were missing key info that had me re reading becaus I wasn’t sure what was going on. Also it kinda seemed a bit far fetch if a story but over all enjoyed it!

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book for my honest review.

A espionage thriller from Karen Cleveland doesn’t disappoint. With another strong female lead employed by the CIA, Beth Bradford has been working a case for years when she is suddenly cut off from the case. That’s when the fun really starts and she begins her process of elimination on who the target is. There are a few red herrings with twists and turns along the way to keep you going. The ending was unexpected and left me satisfied.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.

I went into Karen Cleveland’s “The New Neighbor” expecting a run of the mill domestic(ish) thriller. What I got instead was an intense, can’t put down psychological/spy thriller. In other words, buckle up. Cleveland introduces us to spiraling CIA agent Beth Bradford, who is in the throws of momentous life changes. She quickly goes down a rabbit hole when she suspects the woman that purchased her house may in fact be the target she’s been hunting for years. What results, is a cat and mouse chase to the very end as Beth stops at nothing—willing to risk her reputation, relationships, career and life—to finally capture the illusive “Neighbor.”

I loved the quick pace of this book. The plot was consistently progressing and although there’s a bit of CIA jargon, it wasn’t distracting from the narrative. Beth is the protagonist and narrator we want to root for despite the fact it seems she’s in a losing battle with reality along the way. One minute she’s reliable and the next you wonder if she’s lost it. She does inappropriate things, drinks too much, is paranoid and given what we know about her family situation, it’s easy to find her narration unreliable. But then Cleveland throws us enough bread crumbs to leave us wondering if our damaged heroine is in fact the only one in the book we can trust. It’s truly a nail-biter. While some of the parts are slightly far-fetched and a bit predictable, there were plenty of twists and Red Herrings to keep things intriguing. Overall it was a fast, thrilling read dripping with secrets and jealousy. It also reminds us that everyone has dark secrets—even the people we think we know best.

In Karen Cleveland’s The New Neighbor, Beth Bradford is on the precipice of two big life changes: her youngest child leaves for college and as a result of their empty nest, Beth and her husband decide to sell their house. However, Beth quickly learns she has two more changes in store, neither of them voluntary, as her husband asks for a divorce and she is removed from the case she worked on for years. Beth soon becomes suspicious of the woman who bought her house, despite the fact that she mirrors Beth’s previously happily family and fits in with the cul-de-sac neighbors. Throughout this thriller, Beth secretively continues work on the case, which involves an Iranian intelligence agent working within the CIA, and several clues lead her to the neighborhood she just recently left.

The New Neighbor combines two popular thriller subgenres: the spy thriller and the domestic thriller. With tropes from both, including copious amounts of wine from the domestic thriller, and an agent working against their supervisor’s direct orders from the spy thriller, Cleveland concocts a fresh mystery. Unfortunately, I found the characters to fall flat in this book. Ultimately, Beth made for a rather amateur detective, despite her background in the CIA. She worked through every suspect possible, impetuously leaping from one to the next and holding each new suspect against the evidence she had collected for years. There was not much sophistication in her game, which is very similar to how I play Wordle: I simply try on letters until a word is formed, instead of organically coming to the solution. In addition to being a subpar sleuth, I struggled to connect to Beth. I ended up rating this book 3 stars for an intriguing concept and mystery, though it lacked an imaginative protagonist.

Thank you, NetGalley and Random House Ballentine, for the early release copy.

A fun CIA mystery with combos of terrorism, neighborhood drama, and family drama. I had a feeling I figured out the twist from the beginning but there were so many more twists and turns that kept my guessing and glued to the pages at every turn. This was a great story, put together and thought out very clearly.

This book kept me guessing right up until the end, There are partrs of the biook that I asked my self why they would confuse you like that , just when you think it's this one, its got you thinking it's this one, and you will not see the ending coming. good book to read. I'd tell other to read it.

Good book! This book took a little bit to get going but once it did it was good! It had suspense, action, intrigue and a great who done' it! It wasn't my all time favorite but it was still worth reading ! I would recommend it! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

Thank you @randomhouse for the free book. What would you do if you were suddenly removed from a work project to which you devoted years of your life? The Good Neighbor is another satisfying read from Karen Cleveland. It's a plot-driven, fast paced thriller that will keep you turning the pages to see what will happen next. I love Cleveland's focus on the CIA world, a culture I'm so curious about, and this spy novel had me guessing until the end. Highly recommend!

𝐃𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞?

When Beth is forced to say goodbye to her marriage, home and coveted role within the CIA, all in the same day, she becomes more determined than ever to find the Iranian Quds Force asset she’s been tracking for 15 years, referred to as the Neighbor. But when new information forces her to look at those within her own neighborhood, Beth becomes suspicious of everyone around her as she sets out to uncover the identity of the Neighbor once and for all, and save her own job in the process.

This was the first book I’ve read by Karen Cleveland and I really liked it. It was a fast-paced engaging read that leaned more mystery than thriller. At times, I found myself unable to put it down.

The writing was very clear and easy to understand, which is always helpful with this type of book featuring many different characters, organizations, etc.

I liked the use of dual timeline to fill the reader in on missing information and found the main character easy to connect with, despite early concerns she might be an unreliable narrator.

My only criticism of this novel would be that it became a little far fetched towards the end, while also being a bit predictable. That being said, I still really liked being swept up into this engrossing story and will be reading other books by this author in the near future.

Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

What a fascinating read, fast paced and hard to put down.

Beth works for the CIA in counterintelligence. Her mission is to locate the person known as The Neighbor who is recruiting individuals to do espionage. For 2 years without a lead she has worked this case. Beth takes vacation to see her oldest child off to college to come back and find she has been demoted and replaced.

Unable to let her mission go, Beth’s life as she knows it is no more and her life starts to take several unwanted turns with home,husband, friends, and work.

How far will you go to protect your family?

Karen Cleveland has done a fantastic job bringing this book to life.

I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading more books from this author.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

I have read all but one of Karen Clevelands' books. As usual they are suspenseful , and keep the reader guessing. The New Neighbor was great, but Need to Know is still my favorite.

So this is kind of a catch all for mystery/ suspense writing. It has a little of everything that one could want in a book like this: high stakes, betrayal, lies, and all kinds of twists. The main character, Beth, is the overachieving super mom. A CIA counterintelligence analyst who has spent most of her career hunting the best Iranian spy. With her 3 kids now grown, and her marriage collapsing in front of her, Beth believes she finally has all her resources available to hunt the stealth Iranian recruiter known as The Neighbor. What she didn’t see coming is the counterintelligence unit suddenly and inexplicably removing her from the case, and transferring her to train new analysts. The last job in the world she wants. Unable to let the case go, Beth starts using her limited resources to continue the investigation. And maybe because guilt is everywhere if that’s what you are looking for, Beth starts to go down a rabbit hole, where everyone she knows is a suspect. I had to get through this because i just had to know who in the world the neighbor was. I actually got chills when it was revealed. It will make you wait though, down to the last few pages. It’s always books like this that are the best and the scariest because most of this seems like it could happen in real life. A legitimate nail biter that I am glad is living in the fiction bubble. Review posted to Goodreads, Litsy, LibraryThing, Facebook, Instagram.