Do you ever really know your neighbors? I live in a suburb just like the one in this book! I found it fascinating to read but a little hard to keep my interest. One of those books you enjoy but unfortunately forgetful. I’d rate this right down the middle.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel.
Lowland Way is the Street of Dreams. Home owners keep their properties tidy, they always lend a helping hand when a neighbour is in need and they even cordon off their street on Sundays so the neighbourhood children can play unencumbered. However, when Darren and Jodie movie into the unit at Number 1, things immediately turn sour. They seemingly have no respect for the unofficial rules; blaring music at all hours, parking unauthorized cars in front of other residents’ homes, and working on renovations day and night. All of the other neighbours have had enough of the behaviour of the residents of Number 1. But are they fed up enough to murder?
Louise Candlish is no stranger to psychological fiction, her previous work “Our House” won me over and earned a well-deserved five star review! Much to my disappointment, “Those People” did not hold the same power.
The story is told from various standpoints, so we hear how the story plays out for every neighbour affected <i> (except Darren and Jodie) </i>. This method did help advance the plot and character development, and it added a bit of suspense to the story.
That being said, the story started off very <i>SLOW </i> for me. With a large amount of characters, it took my nearly half the book before I was able to differentiate between them all. None of them were particularly likable <i> (even the ones we are supposed to like) </i> and all of them go to ridiculously dramatic means to plot against an annoying neighbour.
Halfway through this story started to pick up, and although I began to enjoy the storyline a bit more, the characters did not really go more endearing. They were simply background players, necessary to tell a half-decent story.
The who-dunnit twists and turns in this novel are unexpected, and the ending has its own suspense, making the overall mood of this novel enjoyable and mysterious. Fewer characters <i> (and likable ones at that) </i> would have earned this novel the five-stars that its predecessor easily deserved.

Was just ok in my opinion. Had a hard time keeping interested in this one. I did finish because I wanted to know what happened. But no wow factor for me.


Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

Those People is book that will make you look at your neighbours in a different light.

The residents of Lowland Way are living the dream : until Darren and Jodie move in and they are the neighbours from hell.

Life is totally disrupted for the residents and then there is a death.

The police are investigating.

Everyone has something to hide. No one has a great likeablity factor on Lowland Way.

The pages turn quickly, you don't know who to believe or champion.

It's a dark tale that will have you looking at your neighbours with a suspicious mind.

Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the opportunity to read Those People. This book will stay with me for quite awhile.

Lowland Way is a street anyone would live to live on. The neighborhood is bucolic, tranquil, child friendly, everyone gets along. Sunday's the cars are moved from the street, the street closed off and children are allowed to play and have fun, without out fear. It's a wonderful neighborhood. Then, "they' move in, Darren and Jodie. In no time at all, the street looks like a used car lot. In fact that's exactly what Darren is doing. Parking used cars on their street and selling them. Also, renovations on the house are being done. In a hazardous manner by none other than yours truly! And the noise, rock music turned up as loud as it will go, all day and into the night. The power tools, the loudest power tools ever, a person can't hear themselves think.
A peaceful neighborhood is in chaos. He doesn't agree to no cars on the street on Sundays.
He doesn't adhere to the noise codes or the trash codes, or any codes. As the neighborhood falls apart so do the seemingly strong relationships that were there. Neighbors don't trust each other, spouses are at each others throats. And then someone dies. Then the real questions start.
Suspenseful and entertaining,

An excellent story about suburban life and its dramas. Talk about neighborly mishaps! Loved getting to know this community and piecing together what happened. Such a thrilling story!

Absolutely count not put this down. Reading it gave me actual anxiety, in a good way! Did not see that ending coming! Can't wait to recommend to library patrons that love thrillers.

I loved Louise Candish's book "Our House" and was hoping to be pulled into this one in the same way that I was pulled into that one. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for this book, but I lost interest pretty quickly. I may not have read far enough to get hooked. I didn't finish the book, but intend to give it another try sometime in the future.

I got this book because although a serious subject matter, I needed assurance that others have just as crazy of neighbors as I. I only hope my situation does not turn as dark as this book.!

Darren and Jodie move into what seems like a normal neighborhood. They however, are not. They play by their own rules (know the feeling!) by playing music loudly, making the place look like a big trash heap, etc. Therefore, when a murder occurs in their neighborhood, everyone suspects them. They have seemingly far more enemies than friends.

As the story unfolds however, we learn all of the neighbors have their secrets,. This is one of those stories that I personally felt did not give much away in clues as to the 'whodunnit' like I see all too often in mystery/suspense type fiction. I was guessing til the very end.

Great read. Will want to stay up and read it all just to find out all the little twists and turns throughout the plot

Those People by Louise Candlish. An ideal neighborhood with apparently peerless people living within is the setting of this domestic thriller. The drama starts when THOSE PEOPLE move in. Horrid describes the majority of the characters. Only likeable character was Amy and sadly she was a victim of the neighbors vendetta amongst each other. Like a train wreck you can't look away from the story as it comes to an unexpected ending. Be careful what you wish for.....

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

I usually try to vary my reading diet so that the genres alternate, but this time I managed to read two women authored thrillers back to back and no regrets. To be fair…totally different beasts. This one did feature a death and some other suspicious and criminal activity, but it isn’t a traditional formulaic murder mystery thriller, no, this book is an utterly original and profoundly unsettling psychological drama about social mores. Lowland Way is a lovely neighborhood, everyone knows each other, everyone is friendly, there are car free playdates on Sundays, it’s positively idyllic. The property values are high, the lawns are mowed and everyone’s happy. Until the wrong sort of people move in. We’re talking white trash from the estates, loud music, complete disrespect for everyone’s space, parties. Suddenly and abruptly the tranquil paradise of Lowland Way is destroyed and, once the rest of the neighbors find out that they are more or less on their own, council bureaucracy being what it is, things start to spiral out of control. Until someone ends up dead. And that death isn’t even the end of it, that’s just the middle. Things are going to get as ugly as things can get when proper civilized well mannered (very much so on all accounts, British in fact) people take it upon themselves to get their neighborhood back. In a way this is a tragicomedy, the tragedy is obvious, but the comedy of errors comes into play when good intentions fall on deaf ears. The more you get into the novel, the more layers are peeled back, the more frightening their reality becomes. Frankly, the complete inability of police to intervene is difficult to process and difficult to accept. Noise pollution is a serious concern, so much so that it is legally recognized as a form of torture, and for a police in a first world country to offer no assistance with this is abhorrent. It’s also pretty much why libertarianism would never work…left to their own devices with no supervision people would do terrible things to each other. Like they do in the book. You might find yourself starting to question who the good guys are…after all Darren and Jodie don’t actually do much outside of the constant noise, but that’s probably because you have never been in a situation where your comfort and peace of mind are entirely reliant upon another person or persons. Communal living is a complicated thing and it only works well when everyone plays by the same rules. Darren and Jodie don’t belong on Lowland Way and by the end of the book you wouldn’t want to live there either. If enough ugliness if forced upon people therefore forcing them to do ugly things, they change. The staring into the abyss thing and all that. Lowland Way will never be the same. Even before that killer, killer ending. And so this book was…awesome. It worked as pure entertainment first and foremost, but it’s also oh so clever as a work of psychological fiction, genius really. So many clever observations. The way the rational decisions didn’t come to the forefront until much too late…because obviously an angry exasperated brain can’t think rationally. The things that might have been avoided. The misunderstandings. The well intentioned missteps. It’s insane. It’s realistic. It really makes you think. For me, it was much too personal. Frankly, I’ve never given much thought to noise concerns in suburbs, but for apartment living it can be a nightmare. The thing with apartment living is that it’s completely contingent upon good will of others…you’re at mercy of your neighbors, your landlord, your maintenance team. With owning property one would think there’d be some peace. But no, not in Lowland Way. And to think I originally thought this would just be one of those social class dramas of manners. Oh no, this is so much more. Because for me it was too close for comfort, it created for a visceral uncomfortable at times read, but all the same a deliciously good one. And there goes the neighborhood…going, going, gone. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.

Wow.. This was such a twisted neighbourhood hahahahaaha..
If you've ever worried about awful neighbours moving in, or thought the existing neighbours were awful.. you will think yourself lucky you didn't live in this crazy little area.
The book was so well written, I felt like I was watching everything develop over the back fence.
The reality is that being in the situation these couples find themselves in would be enough to make you start to behave differently.
The twist at the end had me laughing out loud... Just when you think life will be returning to normal.
Really enjoyed this book.

I enjoyed this book. The book is well written. The characters are strong. The story is interesting. I give it 4 stars and I recommend it as a good read.

2.5/5 100% of this book was neighbors complaining about each other, hence the "Those People" title, and all I can say is that it really stressed me out. Not an enjoyable read at all. Still, not a poorly written book, just a book full of unlikable people who complain the whole time. On the upside, it did make me appreciate my own neighbors, who definitely aren't as bad as anyone in this book.

Those People are nuts! LOL

The cast of characters are all pretty unlikeable but the neighbors Darren and Jodie take the cake! So much so that within moments of their arrival to the neighbor, the neighborhood wants them gone.

This started as a really quick read but around 50% slowed down considerably and just was not as interesting. This is actually the point where it SHOULD have gotten even better.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC of this book for my honest review.

The beginning of this book had me HOOKED, a really interesting suburban story about several neighbors dealing with a new couple moving in down the road. The new couple is causing serious disturbance throughout the neighborhood with their loud metal music blasting every night, their used car business taking up valuable street parking, and the eyesores created by their home renovations, which do not exactly look to be up to code. It seemed to be only a matter of time before someone got hurt, but when an innocent person ends up dead in an accident on the new home's property, everyone in the neighborhood finds themselves looking guilty.
I loved the alternating perspectives between each of the neighbors and the alternating timelines between after the accident, through police interviews, and before the accident, through first-person narratives. It really showed the neighborhood dynamics well and exposed the issues outsiders often don't see between neighbors and family members. I was intrigued by the mystery, but it became a little convoluted because of how many characters were followed and how many of them realistically could have been involved in the accident. (I suppose it makes for a good mystery to have multiple likely suspects, but literally everyone had both a motive and an opportunity here which then had the inverse effect, making no one stand out as guilty).
The reveals in this thriller/mystery seemed underwhelming to me. This could have been due to the fact that there were multiple, which again is usually a good thing in thrillers, but in this case left me feeling like I needed more closure. Again, because multiple characters seemed guilty, it didn't feel like I was getting the full story. Maybe a reread of this one would help some of the details and intricacies of the mystery fall into place, but I probably won't be picking it back up for a while.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with this eARC in return for an honest review!

Lowland Way is a very nice community. The neighbors seems to get along well. On Sundays the street is blocked off to traffic and parked cars are moved so that children can safely play in the street. Everything is wonderful until the new neighbors move into the house at the end of the block. The construction and loud music at all hours starts and drives the neighbors crazy. Everyone has a reason to dislike the new neighbors. Then one day a tragic accident happens and as the neighbors are questioned everyone seems to have secrets. Was it an accident or did someone cause the accident on purpose?

This is the second book by the author, Louise Candlish. I have enjoyed both of her books and look forward to reading her next book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the opportunity to read and review this book.

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Expected Release Date: June 11, 2019

This was a well written, dark and twisty story, filled with interesting characters, sub plots and a really unpredictable ending. It had me guessing right up to the end. Highly recommended! Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC. I’ll be looking for more from this author!

Another great book by Louise Candlish! I really enjoyed reading this. Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy.

Another gem from Louise Candlish. Like Clare Mackintosh and Ruth Ware, Candlish should be a first purchase for adult collections where domestic suspense is popular.