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A review by julielb
The Perfect Neighbors by Sarah Pekkanen
4.0
3.5 rounded up
I love Pekkanen's mysteries written with Greer Hendricks. Their novel, The Golden Couple, is one of my top reads for 2023. So I was eager to try this earlier book by Pekkanan, read via kindle.
Newport Cove is designed to be a bucolic, family-oriented and very safe neighborhood. We meet several of the families with the focus on the women of the house. One family is supporting the husband/father who is running for Congress and the public scrutiny that comes with it. Another woman is re-entering the workforce now that their kids are old enough, working as a realtor, and starting to get an ego boost from a handsome coworker. Still another is dealing with recent divorce and her ex-husband's new partner, soon to be wife and mother of a new child, was a friend of the woman. And finally there is a new family who just moved in, running from their previous neighborhood and murderous events that happened there.
We meet the women and watch as they try to keep public persona firmly in place to hide their secrets. Some secrets are not big, but still impactful to the woman and her family, while other secrets are quite big, pushing that family to do all they can to keep it hidden.
This was well written, easy to read. The 3.5 is because at times it drug, with long sections during which very little happened. I became impatient occasionally but the nice thing with Kindle books is the ease with which you can swipe forward!
An overall enjoyable read. But I believe the books she coauthors are much more stronger, have more depth, more intrigue, more drama and keep you wholly engaged.
I love Pekkanen's mysteries written with Greer Hendricks. Their novel, The Golden Couple, is one of my top reads for 2023. So I was eager to try this earlier book by Pekkanan, read via kindle.
Newport Cove is designed to be a bucolic, family-oriented and very safe neighborhood. We meet several of the families with the focus on the women of the house. One family is supporting the husband/father who is running for Congress and the public scrutiny that comes with it. Another woman is re-entering the workforce now that their kids are old enough, working as a realtor, and starting to get an ego boost from a handsome coworker. Still another is dealing with recent divorce and her ex-husband's new partner, soon to be wife and mother of a new child, was a friend of the woman. And finally there is a new family who just moved in, running from their previous neighborhood and murderous events that happened there.
We meet the women and watch as they try to keep public persona firmly in place to hide their secrets. Some secrets are not big, but still impactful to the woman and her family, while other secrets are quite big, pushing that family to do all they can to keep it hidden.
This was well written, easy to read. The 3.5 is because at times it drug, with long sections during which very little happened. I became impatient occasionally but the nice thing with Kindle books is the ease with which you can swipe forward!
An overall enjoyable read. But I believe the books she coauthors are much more stronger, have more depth, more intrigue, more drama and keep you wholly engaged.