Neighborhood Watch stands out as one of my most enjoyable reads in recent memory. It captivated me with its fresh writing and unique plot. Set in an upscale neighborhood, the story unfolds as a series of murders terrorizes its residents, leaving them on edge and questioning who might be next.

What truly sets this mystery apart is its cast of characters, who feel remarkably real and relatable. As the plot unfolds, their personalities and quirks shine through, making it easy to care about their fates. It's a testament to the author's skill that these characters feel like people you could know in everyday life with their own beliefs, thoughts, and flaws.

The story moved at a perfect pace, each twist and turn keeping me eagerly anticipating what would happen next. Overall, "Neighborhood Watch" is a must-read for mystery fans seeking a fun and entertaining story with real depth and heart. With its engaging story, compelling characters, and sharp wit, it's sure to you hooked until the very end. Thank you Turner Publishing Company and Keylight Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed this book. It was my first foray into the murder mystery genre. There was something so fun about feeling my spite resolved as certain characters perished. The story and it's characters were very engaging. I did guess the murderer fairly early on, though there were times I thought I may have been wrong. It all seemed to wrap up a bit suddenly for me, but that is the only negative point I really have for it, and would highly recommend it.

This book is a delight! If you love Desperate Housewives, Bravo, and/or Dateline, buy this book immediately. Even though the book is a quick read, the author does a great job of painting the various characters in the neighborhood. This helped keep me invested in not only solving the mystery but also in who was being murdered. I did wish that their was a little bit more about the murderer's motivation as well as some more clarity about the timelines. Because of the format of the book, it felt like the murders were all in the same week, but the text would casually mention weeks had passed or months had passed. Otherwise, it was perfect!

Is it wrong to be howling with laughter reading a murder mystery? Neighborhood Watch is brilliant, a hilarious caper and I was totally invested from start to finish!

A murderer is rampaging through a cookie-cutter, affluent suburb, full of shallow individuals you will love to hate. As does the killer, who is methodical in their mission, going for the most hateful, most materialistic and shallow neighbours first. The remaining neighbours are beginning to get a bit jittery to say the least

We do however, have hope in the Neighbourhood Watch, a group of ladies who come together to fight the mutual foe!

Oh my life I had so much fun reading this book, my ribs ached with laughing! Sarah Reida has such a delightful turn of phrase and a razor sharp wit that I was at that level of ugly laughter with tears and an urgent requirement to blow my nose

A screamingly delicious caper

Thank you very much to Netgalley, Turner Publishing Company and Sarah Reida for a sttunningly hilarious ARC! My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

🤝Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced reader copy!

Oooooooo I love to hate bad people, and this book was full of them. Genuinely wanted to open hand slap half of the residents of Oleander Court, yet I couldn’t read about them fast enough.

The best parts of this were watching the neighbors clash (and slash!) with one another; the overlapping dynamics were well done and I never had trouble keeping up with who’s who. I do wish the book had more of these interactions, as I felt a majority of the story was about explaining every resident’s life story. Considering there were X neighbors murdered, I expected more suspense and action-packed chapters and less backstory for each person.

But! All that to say I did enjoy this book and thought the killer reveal was fabulous. One of those mysteries that feels so obvious at the end when looking back, but was fun and addictive to figure out along the way.

I cannot wait to read more Sarah Reida books in the future!

A murder mystery on a quaint street. The rich residents are being murdered one by one. Whodunit? I had guessed the culprit pretty early on but that in no way detracted from my enjoyment of this story. It was so fun to read. Each death personal down to the weapon used. The absurdity of the cast and the circumstances they find themselves in is utterly entertaining. Snarky, sarcastic, ironic. And yet, it still managed to edge into creepy, scary.

Neighborhood Watch is a story about a group of rich people who live in a picture-perfect neighborhood and who start getting killed one by one. The characters in this book are supposed to be horrible and disgusting people. However, they felt too cartoonish and exaggeratedly evil. This made it hard for me to hate them, which is what you're supposed to do as the reader (or as any normal human being, because these characters are objectively bad people). Instead, I just found them really funny and entertaining and I honestly felt really bad when they got murdered.

The murders in this book are really creative and even poetic, in a way. I liked the murder weapons that were used for each victim and how they were used. Each murder was extremely ironic, considering what the victims were thinking about or doing right before they were murdered. I really liked this aspect of the book. The author did a great job with that.

I suspected a certain character was the murderer about halfway in, but I wasn't so sure. When said character was reveled as the murderer, I wasn't surprised. I had some other suspects, but this one made the most sense. I liked the reveal and everything that happened after.

The most important part about this book is that it's so much fun to read. I couldn't put it down. Neighborhood Watch is extremely easy to read and you will finish it in a sitting, enjoying every single second of it. It's such an entertaining book. And very creepy, too. I got so nervous every time one of the characters heard weird noises inside their house.

Speaking of houses, WHY THE HELL DID THEY STAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHILE A KILLER WAS ON THE LOOSE?

Anyways, I really loved this book because, as I said, it's so entertaining. The ending is very satisfying and I wouldn't have had it any other way. I'm so glad I read this book.

Such a great book. It was funny, it was camp. There was drama, mystery, queer representation. There were a lot of characters, but it wasn’t hard to keep up with. I never lost the plot, or whose point of view I was reading from. Definitely going to be keeping an eye out for Sarah Reida’s future books!

After the first two murders in the upscale neighborhood of Oleander Court, people are worried - and very suspicious of each other. As the residents of Oleander Court uncover their neighbors’ secrets, the elusive killer continues to rid the community of the worst apples in the bunch. Will the murderer be revealed, or - if not - where will they draw their moral line?

There are a LOT of characters in this book, and each chapter tells someone else’s story. I count at least 12 different names in the list of chapters. While it was interesting to hear from so many different voices, it also made the story a bit harder to keep track of. Hopefully the final version has a map or something.

I was pretty sure of who the murderer was by about halfway through the book, but I still enjoyed seeing the twists the author threw in and the way things were wrapped up at the end.

Read this if you like to see morally bankrupt characters get what’s coming to them.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

This is the second book I've read recently about rich people behaving badly, and I think I've found me a new favorite genre! (Can “rich people behaving badly” really be considered a genre? Probably not, but whatever.) This book is so much fun! I mean, sure, people are getting murdered left and right so you'd think that would be the very opposite of fun, but they're really, really awful people soooo …

But, yeah. Neighborhood Watch is a murder mystery and also a look into the lives of the rich and (mostly) morally bankrupt. From overzealous HOA presidents to wife-abusing Nazis, this book has a full cast of questionable characters. There are a few decent individuals in Oleander Court, but even they have their secrets (Soon-Li's is the best and actually made me LOL). Mix all of these unique personalities together and you end up with a whole lot of drama, everything from bitch-slaps on the sidewalk to accusations of infidelity to spiteful Halloween decorations.

The mystery itself is pretty simple – someone is killing off the neighborhood's worst residents one by one. Who could the culprit be? And who will be their next victim? Honestly, I guessed the killer super early on, but it in no way took away from my enjoyment of the story. Getting to the big reveal is just so entertaining!

There are some serious and thoughtful bits to this book, too, though. It addresses transphobia and racism and domestic abuse and classism. Characters are struggling with their marriages and careers and growing older and fitting in with their neighbors. For the most part these topics aren't addressed super deeply, but they're also not just simply glossed over.

My one minor complaint about this book is that I felt the ending was a little weak. There really didn't seem to be much of a justifiable reason for why the killer did what they did, and the residents' reactions to the unmasking of the murderer was rather implausible. But I suppose that with a little suspension of disbelief, it's a perfectly decent ending and doesn't detract too much from the delightfulness of the rest of the novel.

My overall rating: 4.55 stars, rounded up. If you enjoy entertaining murder mysteries with a plethora of unusual characters and a boatload of drama, you'll probably want to give this one a read.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Keylight Books for providing me with an advance copy of this book to review.

What a great setting for a murder mystery. Suburbia is creepy as is, throw in a couple of murders and there’s a fantastic setting for this type of story I was intrigued throughout. The character gallery was fun and interesting. There were a lot of characters but it really felt like they all had their place in the story and had distinct own characteristics.

A very nice read!

Rich people problems in a gated community vibes who wind up murdered one by one. Whodunit?!?! and why? (well for some of these characters, I get why-- though I don't condone murder)
Lots of characters that absolutely suck and who get what is coming to them.
Contains multiple POVs which I always enjoy in trying to pick off the killer and who is going to be murdered next.
This was definitely a fun thriller and I really love the cover.

I bet this would be even better as an audiobook, as this is how I prefer to consume my mystery/thrillers. A good narrator really ups the level of intensity!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

This book was at the same time the best and the worst book to kick off 2024. The best, because I love rich people problem books, mysteries and thrillers set in a closed community and multiple points of view. This book had all of them. The worst, because it made me stay up way past my bedtime to finish it and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to shake the resulting sleep deprivation. So thank you (but also it’s all your fault!) to Net Galley and Keylight Books for the DRC!

I recommend entering this book with as little knowledge of the plot as possible, so I will offer this synopsis: Oleander Court is home to several affluent people, all with their secrets, desires, petty fights and friends. One day, residents of the neighborhood start dropping like flies and the search for a serial killer in their midst leads to the unravelling of their relationships and to the end of all peace and quiet.

I loved how Sarah Reida was able to make all characters compelling with just few broad strokes, and to craft such a fast paced thriller that feels like a locked room mystery, despite taking place in a whole neighborhood. I found some of the characters a bit stereotypical (the bimbo, the nosy neighbor, the politician with the trophy wife), but this didn’t hinder the enjoyment of the story one bit. On the contrary, it created more rich people problems which, as we have already established, I love.

I do recommend this read to anyone who likes to read about small, closed communities, their inner dynamics, their rise and downfall.

Content Warnings: murder, death of a family member, depression and depressive episodes. Some residents of Oleander Court are NOT good people, so there’s also mention of animal cruelty, violence against women (both mentioned and very briefly depicted), racism, gender-based discrimination, gender slurs.

A zingy thriller that's sure to be a beach read staple! I loved trying to figure out not just "whodunit" but why. Populated with characters you'll love to hate, and don't worry...more than a few get what's coming to them.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

Initially I was worried this one was going to be just like all the other rich people neighborhood books where they all kill each other with million dollar encrusted knives. This was not that! Reida doesn’t let that trope rope hang her and she developed the characters nicely so we still loathe them, but love reading about them. I loved watching the body count go up with the stupidity of the characters ensued. I also loved the multiple POV narrative. Getting into the mind of some of these whacko characters really makes you feel like yer part of the who-dun-it crew.