Aggie Blum Thompson & Alex Picard

Aggie Blum Thompson wrote The Neighbors are Watching, and then Alex Picard narrated it! Join us for this Author & Audiobook Narrator in conversation!
From the "master of suburban scandal" (Samantha M. Bailey) comes a scandalous twisty thriller about obsession, betrayal, and the price of perfection
Just outside Washington, DC, sits Eastbrook, Bethesda--a leafy suburb with top schools, pristine landscapes, and perfect neighbors. It's not the kind of place where nannies are killed during robberies gone wrong. And in this picture-perfect neighborhood, someone is desperate to plaster over the cracks in that façade.
A year after the unsolved neighborhood murder, Caren, nearing fifty and staring down an empty nest, has one too many drinks at a graduation party and blacks out on her way home. At least, that's what everyone says happened. Caren suspects she was drugged by someone. But who?
When Caren teams up with a new neighbor who is obsessed with figuring out who murdered his best friend, they start to uncover what Eastbrook has tried to forget. But in a place where appearances are everything, their search for the truth means not only shattering carefully curated perfection -- but putting themselves squarely in the crosshairs of a killer.
About the Author
Before turning to fiction, AGGIE BLUM THOMPSON covered real-life crime as a newspaper reporter for a number of papers, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Aggie is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives with her family in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
About the Narrator
An award winning stage actor and SOVAS nominated narrator, ALEX PICARD has an MFA in Acting with a focus Shakespeare and voice and brings her classical training to her work in front of the mic. Born and raised in Boston and a former theatre professor, Alex has over 150 titles with Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Harper, Scholastic, Sourcebooks, Brilliance, Blackstone, Podium, Tantor and others. She still performs on stage having played roles from Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Beatrice in Much Ado - from Annie Wilkes in Misery to Dorinne in Tartuffe - her range and agility with characters bringing every reader an immersive experience. Alex was once called the Meryl Streep of New England and enjoys narrating in a variety of genres including Literary Fiction, Thrillers, Police Procedurals, Cozy Mysteries, Science Fiction, Women's fiction, Rom Com and dark and twisty titles. Her strength arsenal includes sarcasm, snark, a wicked sense of humor, strong character work, authenticity, and emotional depth, which she wields with precision. Alex is a terrible cook, has an unreasonable fear of paper cuts and once ran a theatre in Boston, a theatre workshop in a prison and a marathon in a pandemic.