At a glance
A suburban neighbourhood starts to spiral when one text message causes a nasty chain reaction with horrifying consequences.
You press send and your message disappears. Full of secrets about your neighbours, it’s meant for your sister. But it doesn’t reach her—it goes to the entire local community WhatsApp group instead.
As rumor spreads like wildfire through the picture-perfect neighbourhood, you convince yourself that people will move on, that this will quickly be forgotten. But then you receive the first death threat.
The next day, a woman has been murdered. And what’s even more chilling is that she had the same address as you—26 Oakpark—but in a different part of town. Did the killer get the wrong house? It won’t be long before you find out…
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"A simple, ordinary mistake explodes into a suburban nightmare in this hugely compelling, one-sitting read packed full of thrilling moments and genuinely surprising twists. Andrea Mara is at the very top of her game."
- Catherine Ryan Howard, author of 56 Days
"Wow, It Should Have Been You blew me away. Ingenious plotting, brilliantly written, pacy and totally unpredictable, I devoured it over a weekend. This is Andrea Mara’s best book yet. Absolutely outstanding!"
- Claire Douglas, author of Local Girl Missing
"Andrea has a knack of taking our every day anxieties and turning them into full-blown nightmares. She is on of the best psychological thriller writers out there, subtly weaving darkly absorbing stories with relatable characters who leap off the page."
- John Marrs, author of You Killed Me First and The One
