I found the premise of this book intriguing--a man wins the lottery on the day of his wife's funeral--and it is filled with twists and turns that will keep readers interested. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator admirably transitioned between the diverse accents of the various characters. The protagonist, Aidan Marlowe, is grieving the recent death of his wife and the long-ago death of his teenaged brother, and then he moves his family to a new house, one that comes with its own troubled past. The threats he faces, and his attempts to discover the truth about his house, create an engaging story, and I enjoyed this audiobook. However, the ending was less satisfying than I would have liked, and I felt that some plot points were unresolved. I appreciate the ARC from NetGalley that gave me the opportunity to review this book.

This thriller seemed to start just like a lot of others: family moves to a big new house and weird things start happening. But I really enjoyed the ride to the end. So many small details layered on top of each other, leading to a very interesting ride. I had my suspicions about what was going on, and felt I was able to figure out a bit of it as it moved, but it didn't discourage me from reading. In fact, I found myself itching to get back to this plot throughout the day while at work. It was a good one and a first read for me from Carter Wilson.

Thank you to the publishers, author and NetGalley for the free copy of this audio book.

Very engaging, twisted read. Guessed some of the twists but not all, which was nice. I plan on looking into more books by this author! The narrator was really good as well.

The New Neighbor had me from the very beginning. It is a well crafted book. The characters were very believable. There was a lot going on but it wasn't difficult to follow. Isobel, the lead character, had her hands full with a deceitful husband and wacky neighbors. Linette, the new neighbor, was steeped in deception. She was out to avenge justice her sister, unsuccessfully. Her sister committed suicide and Linette felt that none of her neighbors were there for her, which was true. Belatedly, Isobel realized she'd done nothing to support her, to her chagrin. Isobel's neighbor, Josie, had an affair with Isobel's husband, Mike. Linette told her about it but she wasn't sure she believed her, until her husband finally came clean.

And then Isobel figured she'd solved the dilemma regarding the death of Wilson Walker, Linette's nephew. She found a receipt that implicated Mike and Josie. So Mike and Josie were taken into police custody but later released. When the police searched Isobel and Mike's house, they found a hammer that had the blood of Linette on it. She had been discovered dead by Mr. Quinn, a surly neighbor who pretty much avoided contact with his neighbors. Mike was arrested, and remained in jail until the truth of who killed Linette came out in a twist ending.

I was very much surprised by the ending. There was no way I would have imagined who the true killer was. This was a very good read and I would definitely recommend it for book club.

Wow, this book really surprised me! I’m not exactly sure why but this book really draw me in and captured my full attention, which had the pages turning so fast. This was such a suspenseful drama/thriller, I highly recommend this book! The dramatic build was great and I felt that the author did an amazing job at adding just enough detail that made everything come to life. This was such an ADDICTIVE read!

I read and listened to the book. I enjoyed both options but preferred just reading it.

***** Many thanks to Poisoned Pen Press, Dreamscape Media, Carter Wilson, and NetGalley for the gifted copy as it was provided to me in turn for my honest opinion.

Winning the lottery isn’t always the best thing to happen to you. Certainly winning on the day the wife died and receiving the notice during her funeral can have some mental impact. Thankfully he hired an established lawyer who with her advice, support and readiness to be available when needed keeps him from completely going over the deep end. I think it’s a bit of unique story. The combination of mystery, horror and ghostly events add in the loss of a loved one, suddenly be a single parent and quilt feelings about something that happened when he was a teenager all tied in nicely together.
The Narrator Gary Bennet made it a pleasure to listen to this story.

Well, this is an interesting premise and couple of events that have never been in any other suspense/thriller that I've read before! On the day of your wife's funeral, you get a text saying you just won the lottery, thirty million dollars after taxes. How does this widower deal with this? Well, he moves his family to a town called Bury, New Hampshire, because it 'called to him.' That's one of the many eerie things that happens to Aidan and his family. This was a quick audio because it was a little tough to put down. As things progress, I felt drawn into the story and just had to continue. #netgalley Apr 2022 pub date

Aidan may have the worst or best luck in the world? Or possibly every bad thing comes with something good or vise verse?

He has used the same powerball numbers for the last fifteen years and on the worst day of his life, his wife’s funeral, he won the jackpot.

After his wife died, he starts losing pieces of his memory and isn’t sure what is going on. Many gaps in his mind are making him kind of nervous.

He’s been self sabotaging himself for years ever since his brothers death and now people are coming after him and his family for his money.

This was a fucked up thriller but it was alright. I wasn’t super interested in some parts, but overall it was decent.

The New Neighbor
Carter Wilson
💥 Pub Date: 4/12/2022

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5/5

• tense thriller with some family drama
• great pacing
• the ending 😱

This one drew me in immediately and kept me on the edge of my seat! After the brief setup of the story, the mystery gets going right away. I loved how we really got into the head of our MC (who deals with paranoia and hallucinations), and the secondary characters were well written and dynamic. I still have a couple of questions that I feel didn't get fully answered. But all in all, this thriller was awesome!

🗣️ Thank you to @netgalley and @dreamscape_media for the opportunity to read and review this book via audiobook. All opinions are honest and my own.

I admit I never can figure out “who dunnit” but I was sure I did this time. News flash: I didn’t. I loved the twists, the characters, the *crack* mid-story, and the ending that had me on the edge of my seat.

The only thing missing for me was a narrator with a brogue.

Thanks to #NetGalley and the publisher for early access to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

After the loss of his wife, Adian Marlowe has decided to move for a fresh start. He finds out on the day of her funeral that he has won the lottery. This affords him the opportunity to move to Bury, New Hampshire. He has not told anyone about his winnings, but he starts getting letters demanding money.
He fears for his children and his safety and hires a lawyer to figure out what to do next. Should he give into the demands? This novel has a few twists and turns and does give your imagination a work out!
Thank you NetGalley, Carter Wilson and Poisoned Pen Press for an advanced audio. This novel publishes April 12, 2022. #netgalley, #carterwilson, #poisonedpenpress, #bookstagram, #booksconnectus, #stamplerlady50, #bookreview, #audiobook

Not exactly where I thought this was going... in part, yes, but not all of the mystery was what I'd guessed earlier on and I can appreciate that. I felt this started stronger than it ended. A widower finds out he's won the lottery on the day he's burying his wife, then relocates his children to a new town in a massive house shrouded in mystery. Several members of the family who owned the home previously had disappeared. Is his family facing the same fate? Or it's something more afoot? While this may not make the top of my list, I enjoyed the story and would check out more from this author.

Thanks to Dreamscape Media for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

This one was an easyvlisten although at times i felt like the narrator was putting me to sleep instead of reading a thriller. I enjoyed the short chapters with cliffhanger endings that make you say just one more chapter several times.

Threatening letters startle the owner of a house with a mysterious past. With the help of his attorney, the new owner tries to uncover the home's secrets and the identity of the letter writer. As a recent lottery winner, the list of people who might be out for the new owner and his money is long, but the culprit is the last person you'd expect.

I struggled a lot with the first half this book. It was a very slow build, and I wasn't really sure where it was going. The back half was much stronger. It seemed like all of the important information was crammed into the back half. It definitely kept me reading and the ultimate ending was surprising, if a little all over the place.

This one wasn't my favorite, but I would still try more from this author.

I found this book to be intruding and well written. A mystery filled with wrong turns at many corners. I liked the heritage of the main character and how he dealt with his grief through it all was not overwhelming but natural.

I think where it didn’t hit the mark for me exactly was the wrap up. I thought the reason behind it all was interesting and a nice, somewhat fresh, idea but there were questions I had that I felt were left unanswered.

A good mystery with some twists and turns that those of this genre may enjoy.

❗️Definite language in this one. Mentions of blood.

My rating: 3.3*

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Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced audio. All opinions are my own.

This was a good psychological thriller. I liked that the main character was a male. I feel like a lot of psychological and domestic thrillers lately have female leads (or maybe it's that I tend to pick those up) but either way, it was really nice to have a dad with his kids as the center of the story. I enjoyed the creepy town and the spooky house atmosphere. The plot was interesting but dragged a bit at times. I didn't love the MC, and as I got farther into the book, I understood why, but it did stop me from thinking this was a 5-star story.

Overall, this is a solid thriller, and readers are going to enjoy it!

About the Book
Aidan Marlow, aka Marlow, just lost his wife and on the day of her funeral, he gets a text telling him he just won the lottery with the Powerball numbers he’s been using for years. He just won millions, and he can’t decide if he needs to be happy for his winnings, or sad for the loss of his wife. He decides to build a new life for himself and his 7-year old twins, Bo and Maggie. He moves to Bury, NH, and the house he moves to holds secrets of its own. A family that disappeared. Now someone in this new town knows secrets from his past and they’ll stop at nothing to get money from him. They say they’re watching him, and his family. But if they’re watching him, why can’t he ever see them?

My Thoughts:
4 Hearts
This book was amazing. A true thriller in terms of there is always this unsettling feeling behind all the events and the plausible explanation of the situation through various avenues, no one more likely than the next. The strong focus on Marlowe, what he knows, what he thinks, and his own fears make the story strong and everything that happens more urgent, as seen through him. The doubt that instills in me though also added more to the story. I kept wondering what was I missing… What was he (Marlowe) missing? I thought I had it figured out, and I did, but not everything.

Favorite Quotes:
“Figure shit out”
“All the unimportant things in this world are easily replaced. It’s those precious ones that once gone, are gone forever. I suppose that’s what makes them precious.”

This book was just not a great one for me. I believe partly due to the narrator being unable to catch and keep my attention. The story was fine, but overall I was unimpressed and did not want to finish. I did end up finishing to see if more happened, but it was very predictable.

This thriller managed to subvert my expectations multiple times and keep me guessing throughout which is not something that a lot of books do.

In this novel, a man moves to a new town and new neighborhood after his wife dies on the same day he wins the lottery. After his arrival, he begins receiving mysterious notes and finds out that his new house has a dark history where an entire family disappeared.

It goes to weird places. I actually really liked the kind of off the wall conclusion but I am not sure it would work for everyone. Things I was asking myself ended up being answered in an almost amusing “oh of course’ way. I thought the writing was sharp and engaging and the character’s weren’t exactly the deepest but still enough to connect with and propel through the story. There are many, many threads of this story and they all are rather frayed and scattered and not tidied up at the end but I kind of liked that realism to it.

The loss of a loved one and the trauma that can be inflicted isn’t exactly nuanced here but it shown as powerful but there was enough emotional distance from it to not be traumatizing for the reader. You can step back and enjoy the story without being emotionally manipulated.

I also noted that this is my first time in a long time with a central male character in a thriller and WOW the lack of gaslighting was astounding. No one ever, not once, asked this man if these things are really happening this way until things started getting like REALLY wild. Is it that not being believed is a central fear to women so its written about more? Or are men just written as being more ‘believable’? I don’t know. This is only one example from one book. I’d be very curious if any other thriller readers have noticed this as a trend at all?

Anyways, I can’t talk too much about what I liked without spoiling this.

I listened to the audio book provided by Netgalley and Dreamscape Media. The narrator did a great job HOWEVER, the character was supposed to be Irish and have an Irish accent which is mentioned throughout the story and this narrator did not. It was a little distracting and not sure why they didn’t hire someone Irish.

Aidan Marlowe's current life:
- Lost his wife due to an aneurysm
- Found out he won the lottery at her funeral
- Moved to a new house in a new neighborhood
- Received creepy, threatening letter telling him to never leave said new house

Carter Wilson wrote quite the detailed psychological suspense novel. Aidan's past is shocking, his present is filled with booze, and his future is uncertain. I enjoyed the building suspense and increasing unreliability of the details we are given as readers. I honestly couldn't guess all the twists, and let's be honest, thrillers where we can't guess everything are the best! Gary Bennett was a fantastic narrator, and I greatly enjoyed the audio copy of this book.

Thanks to Dreamscape Media for the gifted copy of this ALC and to Poisoned Pen Press for the ARC.