It seemed like a great setting for a story about friendship, about lies, about wanting more and doing anything to get it. This idea that you can have this perfect life, that there is such a thing as a perfect sleepy street where all the families are happy. I’ve always found the suburbs a little creepy.

To purchase The Mother Next Door, click on the following links: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound & Additional Sellersĭomestic Thriller is a subgenre of suspense and crime fiction that focuses on the psychology of personal relationships.ĭomestic Thriller Author Tara Laskowski: The Interview The Mother Next Door has been called the “pitch-perfect satire of the suburban dream.” What drew you to that particular community to set your second novel of suspense? But when a twisted plot is revealed, with dangerous consequences, their steady foundation begins to crumble, leaving only one certainty: after this year’s block party, Ivy Woods Drive will never be the same.įrom award-winning author Tara Laskowski, The Mother Next Door is an atmospheric novel of domestic suspense in which the strive for perfection ends in murder… They’ll do anything to protect their families. This year’s block party should be the best yet… until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the quiet neighborhood’s dark past-and the lengths they’ve gone to hide it.Īs secrets seep out and the threats intensify, the Ivy Five must sort the loyal from the disloyal, the good from the bad. When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again. An influential group of neighborhood moms-known as the Ivy Five-plans the event for months.Įxcept the Ivy Five has been four for a long time. The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul-de-sac Ivy Woods Drive.

Andrea Bartz, author of The Lost Night and The Herd “If the women of Big Little Lies were the moms of East Coast high schoolers, they’d be right at home in The Mother Next Door-a witty, wicked thriller packed with hidden agendas, juicy secrets, and pitch-perfect satire of the suburban dream.” Review + Author Interview + Author & Book Info Domestic Thriller - The Mother Next Door

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