I took a shot, and I’m so happy that I did because I have not been this enthralled by a thriller in a very, very long time. Frankly, I did not know what to expect going into this book, because of the lackluster Goodreads rating and my unfamiliarity with the author’s work. When No One is Watching is a thriller unlike any I have read before.
The more stones Sydney turns, the more secrets and conspiracies she unearths. Even as Sydney and Theo work with each other, a companionable relationship growing between them, sinister things begin to happen. Here, she finds an unlikely assistant: Theo, who has just moved across the street from Sydney with his girlfriend. As her largely brown and Black community is quickly supplanted by rich, white neighbors, Sydney decides to launch her own walking tour, hoping to tell the true history of her Brooklyn neighborhood and the people who have lived there. Condos, franchises and expensive businesses have uprooted families, old bodegas and local folks who have lived in the neighborhood for as long as Sydney can remember. But her beloved neighborhood, and the community within it, is changing with every passing day. Sydney was born and raised in Brooklyn in a brownstone that belonged to her mother.
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