The Psychopath Next Door

Ethan Dove has moved his family to a quiet, safe community, hoping a fresh start might repair his fraying marriage and give his children — teenage Dylan and twelve-year-old Rose — the settled childhood he wants for them. Then a new neighbour arrives next door, and the fragile calm begins to curdle.

Fiona has just been released from prison, and she has a list: three people she blames for putting her there, and a cold determination to make them pay. When she recognises something of herself in young Rose, she sets out to make the girl her protégée — drawing an impressionable child into a scheme far darker than anyone around her realises.

Mark Edwards delivers another unsettling domestic thriller about the danger that can move in right next door, building dread out of ordinary suburban life as an outwardly ordinary family is pulled into the orbit of a manipulative, remorseless mind.