5 Stars from me!

This is the second book by Alex Marwood that I’ve read and much like The Wicked Girls – I absolutely loved it!

I can well see this being made into a TV series (it put me in mind of What Remains) or film as it was so easy to visualise while reading it. More of a black comedy than a truly scary book – think along the lines of Shallow Grave and you won’t go far wrong. The Killer Next Door focuses on the mundanity of life, day-to-day chores and inconveniences with lovely little snippets of human behaviour playing out among the warped world around us – all wrapped up in a subplot of macabre humour.

I felt all the characters were cleverly devised and interacted well with each other. The additional story-line given to Collette was a nice touch even though the story could have carried itself quite nicely without it.

Very, very different the The Wicked Girls but just as good – highly recommended.

I’m loving Alex Marwood right now and hope she is busy writing more :)