The Secret Next Door

Written by Rebecca Taylor

Narrated by Libby McKnight

It's the perfect neighborhood, filled with not-so-perfect people.

Alyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had: a stable family, a loving home, and a great school in a safe neighborhood. When they move into the home of her dreams in one of Denver’s most sought-after developments, Alyson
works hard to fit in and impress the other mothers.

Bonnie Sloan is the neighborhood matriarch. With her oldest son headed to Yale and her youngest starting kindergarten, Bonnie is now pursuing her own long-held political aspirations. But it’s her middle child, Elijah, and their private family
struggles that cast a shadow over her plans.

When the open space behind some of the most expensive homes gets slated for development into a golf amusement facility, the neighborhood becomes deeply divided. The personal pressures and community conflicts ratchet with every
passing day, but it’s when a thirteen-year-old boy is found dead beside the lake that simmering tensions boil over into panic.

Gossip flows, lies are exposed, and accusations are made as cracks run through the community’s once-solid foundations. The neighborhood’s faith in exterior appearances is eclipsed by the secrets every house keeps.

Rebecca Taylor, author of Her Perfect Life, returns with this fast-paced, engrossing novel that reminds us that nothing is ever as perfect as it seems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781980094005

Rebecca Taylor

Rebecca Taylor is Editor of Jewish Renaissance and a former news editor at Time Out London.

Reviews for The Secret Next Door

[Viktoria · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is sorely mislabeled as a suspense thriller novel. At best, it is a psychological drama and at worst, a mystery that leads nowhere. It is your average suburban run-of-the-mill soap opera with selfish and vain characters that make poor choices that have you rolling your eyes. I will say the audiobook narrator did a good job, but overall, the book had virtually no plot. 9+ hours later, there is still really no mystery and the one mystery that seemed like it would yield something juicy turned out to be a misunderstanding. I struggled with this one because I kept listening in hopes something would happen. Unfortunately, nothing ever did.