Neighborhood Watch
A Novel

Actually, my feeling about the book is "it's better than a 2, but not quie a 3"; however, I'll give it a 3 rather than am "it was OK" 2 star rating. The premise of the book is that Betsy spends 12 years in prison for murdering her neighbor, Linda Sue, apparently while sleep walking. Now, she is bein......more

You wouldn't find too many novels classified as fiction/literature that will give you everything you would want in a true mystery. "Neighberhood Watch" does it. This is a very low key novel that is almost totally devoid of action, but provides an ending that few will be able to unravel. The story conc......more

Very interesting mystery, the main character Betsy Treading, a town librarian has been serving a long prison sentence for the murder of the lone single woman in her neighborhood. A murder she confessed to, but immediately wanted to recant, and had no way to do it without jeopardizing her defense. Bet......more

I won this book through the first-reads program and I have to say I really enjoyed it... to me it was a mix of a women's Oz and a private citizen's Law and Order. Betsy Treading gets convicted of a murder she can't remember doing and spends 12 years in jail until DNA evidence proves her innocent. Sh......more

Miscarriages, prison romance, a murder, cold fusion, good books, eccentric neighbors, extramarital affairs, a mysterious cat, somnambulism, mental illness, a teen pregnancy, Buddhist monks---all this and more is tossed together to make an oddly tasty bowl of Implausible Soup. I finished this book an......more