Waiting on Wednesday [172]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

WATCHING YOU

by: Lisa Jewel
Publication Date: December 26th, 2018

 

Tom Fitzwilliam, the magnetic headmaster who saved the local school and effectively brought the suburban community of Melville together, is beloved by everyone. His wife worships him, his students moon over him, and his next-door neighbor is just about obsessed with him. But it seems that Tom isn’t without his enemies. For only a year after his arrival in Melville, Tom Fitzwilliam is found stabbed to death in the school parking lot.

Six months earlier, Joey Mullen, recently returned to Melville after years of working in Spain, cannot get her new neighbor Tom Fitzwilliam off her mind. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tom’s teenage son Freddie is a child genius with aspirations of working as a spy for MI5, who spends his free time building dossiers on the locals. And he has evidence of Joey doing some odd things.

Across town, sixteen-year-old Jenna Tripp lives with her delusional mother, Frankie. Frankie’s convinced that she’s being stalked—and that Tom is behind it. Jenna humors her mother’s delusions while grasping at some semblance of normality. But then she realizes that her mother is right about one thing: They have met Tom before…and it was under very strange circumstances. Not to mention that something seems to be going on between the headmaster and Jenna’s friend Bess, and his weird son keeps spying on them from his bedroom window. Soon, Jenna can’t help but think that perfect Mr. Fitzwilliam might not be all that he seems.

And now that he’s dead, the entire town is consumed by the questions: Who knows something they shouldn’t? What was Tom hiding? And who would want him dead?

What are you waiting on?