The People Next Door by Christopher Ransom

Suspense fiction. On a quiet street in a pleasant American suburb, the Nash family – father, mother, son, daughter – lead unremarkable lives and wrestle with unremarkable problems. And then the new neighbours arrive. The Renders are beautiful, confident, and charming, and the Nashes are promptly seduced by their charisma, their money, their sex appeal. But the Renders are hiding a horrifying secret. Christopher Ransom was born and studied in Colorado, but moved to New York and then LA with his wife to pursue various careers such as selling ads for media magazines and screenwriting. They then bought a 140-year-old birthing house in Wisconsin, where he wrote his first novel. There’s something wrong with the neighbours…On a quiet street in a pleasant American suburb, the Nash family – father, mother, son, daughter – lead unremarkable lives and wrestle with unremarkable problems: a marriage without spark, money issues, kids having a tough time in school. And then the new neighbours arrive. The Renders are beautiful, confident, and charming, and the Nashes are promptly seduced by their charisma, their money, their sex appeal. But the Renders are hiding a horrifying secret. They’re not as perfect as they seem. In fact, they’re not even human…When Mike Nash learns what the people next door truly are, he’s plunged into a heart-stopping fight for his life – and the life of his family. Pulsing with imagination, thrills, and pure terror, The People Next Door is the scariest novel of the year. The third novel from Christopher Ransom, author of the international bestsellers The Birthing House and The Haunting of James Hastings.