When No One Is Watching : An Edgar Award Winner

An instantNEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAYBESTSELLER!

If Rear Window and Get Out got married and had a baby that was a book, it would indeed be When No One Is Watching, which takes place in contemporary Brooklyn and combines a page-turning thriller with shrewd social commentary on race, gentrification and greed.

Seattle Times

Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighborsshes known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her communitys past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the blockher neighbor Theo.

But Sydney and Theos deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push torevitalizethe community may be more deadly than advertised.

When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each otheror themselveslong enough to find out before they too disappear?