A gripping thriller about what horrors lurk beneath an affluent gentile household. Shocking story of domestic slavery and abuse. A real eye opener.

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read and review this book!

I'm going to insert the publishers summary of the plot because I think it tells it good.

"Beth wants to love her new home on a quiet suburban street. She wishes she could make friends with her beautiful neighbour Oksana. She longs for a new group of friends. Welcoming neighbours to visit. Coffee dates and dinner parties.

But life here feels so closed. Then Beth runs into Oksana’s garden one day to fetch her runaway dog, and she sees something shocking that makes her wonder who her new neighbours really are.

A girl in the window.
A pale desperate face.
A hastily scribbled sign bearing only two words.

HELP ME."

I like reading in dual point of view, but I'm not sure if it did it for me in this type of book... I feel like reading it from only Beth's point of view would have brought up the suspense a little. This was a quick read, but I didn't find it as exiting as I thought I would from reading the plot summary. That is why I'm only giving it 2 stars...

Thank you Netgalley and Author Susanna Beard for this ARC.

I was initially drawn to the book due to it's name and the blurb. I wanted to find out more about the girl with the sign indicating that she needs help. 
Story focuses from the start on the main character Beth and the new wealthy neighborhoods around her. At the same time, we find out more about the young girl and her story. 
Fast-pacing thriller with a few predictable and some more unpredictable twists which make it a very enjoyable read.

5/5 stars!! Very well done book. First book by this author and can't wait to dive in to more. This book hooked me right from the start, at 50% i couldn't put it down and stayed up all night to finish it. Such a page turner. The book flowed very well between Beth & Sofia. Beth handled the situation well and grew from it. Sofia's character development was the best to read through. Both of the characters overcame whatever came against them and kept the reader rooting for them.. Absolutely loved this book!

Awesome book.. kept me on edge as it was a page turner for me. It had a domestic edge to it .
Beth has trouble finding friends in her new neighborhood. She acquires a dog which uncovers some truths.

Special thank you to NetGalley and Joffe Books for sending me an ARC. #THEPERFECTNEIGHBOR #NetGalley

This story follows the trope of "woman witnesses something bad happening at a neighbor's home and sticks her nose into their business". However, while the start of the book was intriguing - gripping us with two separate points of view, a woman who has just moved to the neighborhood with her family and a young girl who is being held captive as a maid/slave. The story very quickly loses its pace once the characters and their backstories are established.

A lot of time is wasted on describing the main character's interactions with her new dog, thinking about her dog, and talking about her dog. While it is because of the dog that she initially "witnesses the thing", the dog really did not need so much page time and exposition. It dragged the pacing. Another thing that I would have cut is the amount of time and attention given to the main character starting a book club in the neighborhood. I just couldn't find a reason to care about it. I just feel like once the main character saw the girl being held captive next door, the rest of the book should have picked up the pace instead of slowing down. It should have been focused on this girl and saving her.

The only real obstacle the main character faced was that the police wouldn't do anything when she contacted them. And she just kept checking back in every few chapters like, "Hey, just wanted to know if you investigated the girl next door who looks like she'd being held against her will? No? Ok? I'll check back tomorrow then, byeeee."

Which brings me to the amount of time spent on the ending. Without spoiling anything, I have to say that I disliked that the "justice" happened off-screen. The reader never really gets closure. It's like the bad guy never faces those consequences that the reader deserves to see them face after sticking it out to see justice served. Truthfully, the ending was one of the main reasons for my low rating. I wanted that final confrontation and I never got it. Instead, that time was spent describing the dog. Ridiculous.

This is my first novel by Susanna Beard and it wont be the last, I thoroughly enjoyed this read.

We meet Beth and her family who have moved to a residential area out of London and Beth is wanting to make friends with the new neighbours, but as the title suggests do The Perfect Neighbours exist?

One day Beth has to go into the back garden of her beautiful neighbour, who I might add Beth wants to befriend, only to see a panicked woman in the houses window pleading for help.

Wow this novel sucked me in from the get-go and did not let me go until I had devoured the whole thing. It seemed quite a short novel, but I literally binge read it when my life let me have moments to spare. A great read that explores the dark and deadly world of enslavement and for me this book is unique. I loved it. The characters really are descriptive and I love the way the author narrates this book.

Thanks for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Susanna Beard writes a dark and intense psychological thriller that makes us question who are neighbours might be and what secrets lurk behind the closed doors of apparently perfect neighbourhoods. Wife and mother Beth is lonely and desperate for friends in the new suburbs she has moved to. Her neighbours Oksana and her husband Keith are particularly distant. When her wayward dog runs into their garden, Beth goes to try and retrieve her pet, only to see the shocking sight of a pale and desperate girl at the window with a sign that says help me. The girl is Sophia, she has been trafficked into a world of domestic slavery. Beard's storytelling is full of twists and turns, of secrets, and heartbreak that makes for a hard to read tale. Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

Great book!!!! I could not wait to finish this book, what an amazing story with loads of twists and turns. When they move to a new neighborhood, Beth wants friends and dinner parties. What she gets instead is absolutely frightening. You will be asking yourself, are people really who they say they are? Is there evil in the neighborhood?
What would you do?
This book is a heart stopper, this will be recommended to anyone who thinks they have read all the thrillers there are and of course to anyone looking for something new. Awesome story!1!

This was a pretty deep dive into domestic slavery that I actually enjoyed. It read less like a domestic thriller, but still managed to convey the scary situations that could be living right next door! I thoroughly enjoyed this dive into both the victim's life and the neighbor who found them. I did think the gardener's side story was a bit superfluous but enjoyed the wrap up at the end.

A tragic story that is told by the perspective of two main characters. Beth, a housewife and mother who is lonely and is need of friends. Then there is Sophia, who is a victim of domestic slavery. Sophia and Beth live next door to one another. But Beth has no idea what is really happing in the house next door. The house where the neighbors seem so perfect.

This is a heartbreaking and somewhat dark story of a young woman who planned a trip to the UK, in search of work, but the trip took an horrible turn of events that led her to where she is now.

A quick suspenseful read. How can we ever know what might be going behind closed doors. Kind of gives me chills that this could happen to anyone. The story starts out fast, but does slow down a bit in the middle. But overall, a good read.

Thank you #NetGalley for an ARC of #ThePerfectNeighbour for my honest review. I gave this 5 stars.

Suspenseful from start to finish, there are twists and turns through out the entire read. The plot is thought-provoking and the author has handled the issues buried in the story line with aplomb. Characters are solidly drawn. This one is a real page-turner I highly recommend!

The Perfect Neighbor is a perfect psychological thriller to cozy up to on a crisp fall day!

Beth moves to a suburban town, so unlike the friendly area she used to live in. The houses are walled off with gates, and if you try to drop by, most of the time you will get no answer when you try and buzz the neighbors for a quick hello. She misses having a group of friends she can regularly get together with and count on. What to do in this situation? Get a dog! Man's best friend will help. When her dog finds its way into the neighbors backyard, Beth has to find a way into the yard too, to save him. What she discovers is that her dog is not the only one needing saving. There is a girl in the window holding up a sign that says "Help me." This is when Beth really begins to wonder who the people are who live next door, what is going on with this girl and what is she going to do about it?

The Perfect Neighbor is an easy read that holds on to your attention from the beginning as the narrative flips back and forth between Beth and the girl next door. As the story is spun for the reader, you begin to get more and more of an understanding of each character and what motivates them. Susanna Beard makes each of her characters alive and complete for the reader, making the story even more gripping. Highly recommend this book if you like psychological thrillers.

I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review and opinion. This book was really good and kept me guessing until the very end. This is the first book I've read by this author but I would for sure be interested to read more by her.

Loved this book , was such a great read , I have not read any other books by this author but will be really looking forward to reading more of her titles. Such a great idea for a story and lots of mystery and twists in this book with shocking story line and so well wrote. I would recommend this book as a great read but to say it is slightly slow at the start but gets so intriguing and brilliant.

This was an excellent thrilling read that had me flipping as fast as I could read. It was very well written and it was really hard for me to put it down. Suspenseful and full of twists and turns.

Synopsis: Beth has moved in to a new neighborhood and can’t wait to meet her new neighbors and hopefully make some friends.
Beth soon finds out that one of her neighbors may be hiding a shocking secret.

I'm sorry...I really thought this was going to be an excellent book. I loved the idea of it but not the execution. If the different points of view were done by like as different chapters and not bouncing so much inside just one chapter. I don't think I would be quite as confused. And it seems like sometimes days or weeks go by but your really not sure.

This was a heartbreaking read, so real because it could happen anywhere without any knowledge. It was one I was drawn to keep reading to see the outcome.

The novel tells the story of Sofia a modern slave and her attempts to escape from her captors. The neighbours next door are unaware of the cruelty that is happen right next door. The author has clearly researched her subject very thoroughly and the story she tells is plausible. It kept me reading on so that I could discover whether Sofia would survive her ordeal. My only criticism is that I was waiting for a twist that didn't really happen but the plot was still enjoyable.