{"id":2516,"date":"2021-08-05T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:53:07","slug":"the-new-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":"The New Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Marlowe\u2014an Irish immigrant to the U.S. who is known by his last name\u2014is lost in a life he never planned. At his young wife\u2019s funeral, he finds out that he won millions in the lottery, and he can\u2019t adjust to life without Holly and with the money. He and his seven-year-old twins move to a huge and forbidding house in Bury, New Hampshire, a move prompted by a voice in his head repeating \u201cbury,\u201d just one of the psychological oddnesses he endures. People in affluent Bury soon let him know that his decision was a bad one: the house was formerly home to a family that\u2019s now missing four members who simply disappeared. And soon after Marlowe and his children move in, he begins receiving threatening letters that make his neighbors\u2019 misgivings seem right but also force him to investigate the neighbors themselves. Marlowe is an unreliable narrator, so that even as readers feel for his turmoil, they are left wondering what\u2019s really going on with this troubled character. Some truly frightening scenes lead to a gripping and satisfying conclusion, but not before a twist that will leave readers\u2019 heads spinning. Marlowe is memorable \u2014single dads in thrillers aren\u2019t that common\u2014but mainly he will stay with readers because of his offbeat vulnerability and the determination that shines through his grief.<strong> Wilson\u2019s (<em>The Dead Girl in 2A<\/em>) unusual psychological thriller is one for fans of Stephen King who are open to reading mysteries.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Marlowe\u2014an Irish immigrant to the U.S. who is known by his last name\u2014is lost in a life he never planned. At his young wife\u2019s funeral, he finds out that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,52,50,51],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-domestic","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/New-Neighbor-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/New-Neighbor.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}