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AliasGrape · 17/01/2022 08:46

The worst thing is I think I read it relatively recently, but I’m really awful at remembering anything about what I’ve read once I’m finished with a book, and I can’t find anything in the ‘read’ section of my kindle or on my shelves that fits the bill. Maybe I got it from the library? Google is not helping me either.

Older (?) woman who imagines herself white genteel, watching her neighbours. She may have some kind of maid/ servant/ help but is otherwise lonely. She suspects one of the neighbours of foul play - I think she might suspect the wife of an affair first and then thinks the husband has killed the wife. The bins are not collected either due to bad weather or a strike I can’t remember which (though I sort of think this was set earlier than the general strikes but could be totally wrong there) and rubbish is piling up on some land behind the woman’s house. I think she suspects at some point the body is there.

Can’t remember if there actually was any murder/ anything dodgy going on or it was just in this woman’s head.

Please help, for some reason this is really irritating me but I feel sure it must ring some bells with someone!

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AliasGrape · 17/01/2022 08:46

She imagines herself QUITE genteel, not white.

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AliasGrape · 17/01/2022 13:41

Bump Grin

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pollyhemlock · 17/01/2022 13:58

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey?

Divebar2021 · 17/01/2022 14:20

“ The Woman in the window “ by AJ Finn although I was thrown a bit by the rubbish aspect.

AliasGrape · 17/01/2022 16:50

Neither of those I don’t think, I’ve read Elizabeth is missing.

I’m wondering if it was a short story now.

I feel like it was set maybe in the 40s but could be totally wrong and no idea how that ties in with the rubbish collection thing.

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CassTheFox · 17/01/2022 20:37

Sounds a bit like Jo Spain - Dirty Little Secrets?

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