The New Neighbor by Carter Wilson

 Aiden Marlowe is grieving his wife Holly who collapsed and died immediately when an unsuspected aneurysm burst, leaving him to raise their seven year old twins.  As he is going to the funeral, his phone beeps with a notification and when he looks he realizes that he has won the lottery, thirty million dollars.

Feeling that his family needs to start over, Aiden moves them from Baltimore to a small coastal town an hour or so outside of Boston.  The house is a mansion but as soon as he walks into it with his children, they all feel the same thing; the house has a haunted feel.  Aiden discovers that the last owner disappeared from the house along with his two daughters and his grandson, never to be heard from again.  Knowing he will need help with the children and hoping for something better, he arranges for his father to come over from Ireland to help with the kids and live with them.  

But the new house isn't the panacea Aidan had hoped for.  He starts to receive notes, anonymous ones saying they were watching him.  Each note gets more threatening and soon there are demands for money.  Aiden goes to the police but there is little they can do.  He hires security but it doesn't seem to ever catch those involved.  After his daughter is trapped in the basement during a party Aiden throws, he knows he must do something.  Can he discover who is targeting his family?

Carter Wilson is known for writing in the thriller genre.  Some of his works have been optioned for tv and movies and he has won numerous awards.  In this novel, he lays bare the fears each of us have, that someone could target those we love and we will be helpless to stop them.  I listened to this book and the narrator did a great job portraying Aiden's grief, fear and resolution to find those threatening his family.  This book is recommended for mystery readers.