Bad Neighbours by Joanna Jenkins

Bad Neighbours is the third thriller from Joanna Jenkins, the Brisbane author and former lawyer behind How to Kill a Client and The Bluff. It is sharp on money, property and the things people will do to protect both.

Ruth Dawson finds her dream apartment in The Lumen, an Art Deco building in Potts Point: parquetry floors, a wall of books, Harbour Bridge views from the sofa. It is perfect, until Ben, the homeless man who had been living in the building's garden, is found dead. The other residents are quietly relieved. Ruth is not so sure, and when she becomes convinced Ben was poisoned, she brings in a detective, and one of her neighbours starts to get very nervous.

A twisty domestic thriller with a satirical eye on Sydney real estate, for readers of Australian crime and anyone who has ever side-eyed the people next door.

'Come for the murder, stay for the almost-too-close-to-the-bone social satire. I loved it, but don't tell my neighbours I said so.' Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Husbands