num_pages: 387
description: No. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London wreck lorded over by a lecherous landlord something waits to be discovered. Yet all six residents have something to hide.Collette and Cher are on the run; Thomas is a reluctant loner; while a gorgeous Iranian asylum seeker and a 'quiet man' nobody sees try to stay hidden. And watching over them all is Vesta - or so she thinks. In the dead of night a terrible accident pushes the neighbours into an uneasy alliance. But one of them is a killer expertly hiding their pastime all the while closing in on their next victim...As a cloying heatwave suffocates the city events build to an electrifying climax in this dark original and irresistibly compelling thriller.
language: English
title: The Killer Next Door
publisher: Sphere