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The Psychopath Next Door

By: Mark Edwards
Narrated by: Imogen Church, Nicholas Boulton
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In this mesmerising thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, a family’s fresh start is just the beginning of their nightmare…

Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood.

After Rose is bullied by the boys across the road, Ethan is relieved when the woman who lives next door steps in. Fiona Smith has come into their lives at just the right moment, and when she offers to look after Rose during the school holidays, Ethan and Emma can’t believe their luck.

Which is exactly what Fiona wants. Because, far from being the perfect neighbour, Fiona is the last person you should trust with your child. With a vicious plot for revenge, Fiona is happy to train Rose to be her accomplice, especially when she begins to suspect that Rose might not be as innocent as she appears…

The Psychopath Next Door is a gripping and twisted psychological suspense thriller set in the terrifying world of Mark Edwards’s bestselling The Magpies universe.

©2025 by Mark Edwards. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Domestic Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Scary Happiness

Critic reviews

“Each chapter pulses with unsettling tension and never relents until predator and prey reach their final, chilling conclusion.”—John Marrs

“Sinister, creepy, and utterly gripping—I could not stop reading. And that ending! My jaw hit the floor.”—Ruth Kelly
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I loved how it all came together, such a good story and kept me interested throughout! I was so eager to finish it I’m sad I have! Possibly read again!

Good twist

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My first audible purchase so I wanted a good experience so not to put me off from future purchases and I wasn't disappointed.
Great story and good performances from the people narrating.
I was worried it could have been cringey but it absolutely wasn't.
looking for my next book to listen to now. 😄

riveting, gripping, thrilling book.

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Fabulous one two three why do I have to write 1t words. Car dog fish book jelly drive sureltbthats fifteen

Fabulous

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Edwards again griped me … just a little to much evil for me
No happy ending .. But he is a great physiological writer 🌞

Evil hoped for happy ending as allways

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The story is good but just too far fetched. It's a book that teenagers would like but for an older person like myself I found it much too far fetched and unbelievable.
Narration good but Charlotte Church isn't a great narrator.

Good not great

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