The People Next Door

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From the AuthorIf the author is fortunate, he completes each of his novels feeling as though he has done his best work yet. But knowing whether this is true is a tricky business, a subjective business, and ultimately left up to each reader who comes to the book. Does it matter that I think The People Next Door is my best novel to date? Perhaps, perhaps not. But since I've been allowed this space to speak of it, all I can do is tell you why I am proud of this book. I believe that whatever strengths I have developed as a writer and storyteller are more present in this novel than in either of my previous two. Intriguing characters that might remind you of your friends, neighbors, or own family members. Suspense, mystery, the ongoing demand to know what happens next. Unsettling events that disturb our everyday lives. The sense that something here is sliding out of control, and that maybe this thing is our own family, our loved ones. Fear, creepiness, a gnawing dread. Hunger, passion, longing, appetite, and the cost of being human. Passages that engage and make us cringe, laugh, and sometimes scream. The underbelly of suburbia exposed, tickled, prodded, and occasionally shocked. A scary novel that is about more than being scared. If these are the elements readers have responded to in my previous novels, then I should think many of the same readers - and hopefully some new ones - will find much to like about this new one. Growing pains, financial strains, neighborhood envy, parental anxiety, the fragility of the American Dream at the dawn of the century's second decade. With The People Next Door, I set out to write a novel that deals in the absurdities and terrors of keeping our families intact, alive, and thriving. Did I succeed? I can't answer that with certainty, but I can say that it's my best attempt to do what I do best. I hope you enjoy The People Next Door, and that they stick with you a while after you have turned the last page. --Christopher Ransom About the AuthorChristopher Ransom is the author of the international bestselling novelsThe Birthing House, The Haunting of James Hastings, and The People Next Door. After studying literature at Colorado State University and managing an international business importing exotic reptiles, he worked at Entertainment Weekly magazine in New York, various now deceased technology firms in Los Angeles, and as a copywriter at Famous Footwear in Madison, Wisconsin. Christopher now lives near his hometown of Boulder, Colorado.