On a Quiet Street: A Perfect Neighborhood Hides Deadly Secrets in this Thrilling Domestic Thriller Paperback – May 17, 2022

You just never know what lies behind people’s doors and this book has you fooled from the beginning. I love neighborhood books where you have to guess who’s good and who’s not. Who’s up to something and who’s not. Bad neighbor vs. good neighbor. People wear masks and have different stories than they appear with. These are great characters with interesting backstories that will keep you in with twists and turns that sometimes are true and sometimes not. This book was a nice break from all of the detective and true crimes I read. I call it readable and worth a look. Definitely an author I’ll read more of!

I really enjoyed this storyline. I really enjoyed how the author captured the nuances of the different lives each character lived and how the perceived each other. I did find some parts difficult to read as the sentences almost felt like Chat GPT wrote parts of it. Like a whole paragraph could have been shortened to one or two sentences but was elongated with additional words and phrases that pretty much just repeated the point in several ways. Reminded me of trying to bulk an essay in high school to reach the minimum word limit.Thankfully I also downloaded the audiobook to listen to the story on the days I need to focus on hands-on work. The narration was great and well acted and helped bring context to the way those aforementioned paragraphs were written.

From the very beginning the author hooks you in. There are many twists along the way. A page turner for sure.

This is a book review, not a book report, so I won't re-hash the plot or give anything away. I bought this book because I thought it took place on the Oregon coast and I'd be able to read a good story while also visiting familiar places. It became obvious fairly quickly the author has never been to the Oregon coast or, if she has, it was for a very brief stay. Oregon rarely gets thunder, even rarer on the coast. There aren't any coastal cities with large, downtown office buildings. Poison oak doesn't grow at sea level. There aren't any gated communities. This book would've been more credible if Glass had set it somewhere she was more familiar with, like Texas.All that being said, the dialogue was quite credible, even if some of the premises were a little beyond belief. I'm not a fan of novels where each chapter is told from a single character's point of view, so it took some time for me to get into the flow but once I did, the story picked up. There was a big 'gotcha' moment late in the book and it was set up in such a way so the reader was surprised, but not because we didn't pick up on subtle hints revealed throughout the story - which most good thrillers have to have - but because the author intentionally withheld critical information from us until after the gotcha moment was revealed. This breaks the rules. It's like saying "the aliens did it," when there hadn't been any spaceships mentioned until that point. Part of the fun of reading a thriller is trying to figure out who the killer is, based on the clues the author gives us. In this case, those clues didn't exist. It was simply a gotcha for the sake of a gotcha.It was a very readable story, and the dialogue was true, but the ending wasn't credible.

Have you ever paid a whopping $5.74 for a Starbucks refresher before waiting what feels like an excruciatingly long 10 minutes only to be served a grande amount of liquid in your venti sized cup, sans strawberries? Reading this book evoked a level of displeasure similar to the aforementioned experience. This book was average at best. The story itself was *good,* but I wanted MORE. I paid for MORE! The ending came off oversimplified (or haphazardly thrown together like a sloppy joe in a grade school cafeteria) and the characters, while navigating deeply convoluted experiences, lacked depth. A subpar thriller that I would have liked better had I been 15 years younger and new to reading for pleasure.I’m

This is my favorite book by Nova Glass so far, and I’ve also read two others. The author does many things well, but suspense is definitely her forte.’ Few writers can ratchet up the palpable tension and anxiety quite like she does. It works so well because the intricate plots of her books are always compelling and the pacing is flawless. Nothing lags or drags. I particularly enjoyed this book because of the well-drawn characters and the complicated friendships that develop between them. Paige is struggling to cope with the mysterious death of her son, and Cora is wrestling with her manipulative husband, who lies and cheats, but gaslights her suspicions. Both women live in an upscale neighborhood where secrets hide behind closed doors and well-tended lawns. The newest member of this quiet enclave is Georgia, but she and her husband keep mostly to themselves, while raising their baby daughter. Rumors swirl that Georgia is agoraphobic. The lives of these three women and their husbands gradually begin to intersect in new and unexpected ways as the story progresses. Suddenly, the women find themselves in shocking and unforeseen circumstances, and they must turn to each other for help. The women in the story are all strong, and then tough situations make them even stronger. So refreshing to find characters who are not portrayed as hapless, hopeless and unstable. Also, there are some genuinely funny moments in the book that offset some of the more serious aspects. Christopher the dog made me smile. This is a satisfying read that will keep the reader turning pages in a flurry to the nail-biting conclusion.

A slow and confusing start but otherwise a good book. The author did a good job of building the characters into being believable.

Great book

After being WOWED with her new novel 'Vacancy in Room 10', bought this book with high expectations! Well, this one did NOT disappoint at all! A nice small cast of characters to delve into and keep my interest high throughout, swiftly flipping thru those pages.... LOTS of surprises with no hunch as to how this would end. Excellent ending! Onto another of hers!

I really enjoyed this.I read most of it while out walking. Too hard to put downI hope to read more from this author later today

Really enjoyed the book!

Such a good read!! I couldn’t put this down almost from the start. There were so many twists and it was not at all predictable. I also loved the characters. Highly recommend!

This book was a great thriller. Lots of intertwined stories and the reality that no one knows what goes on behind people’s doors.