The girl is next door. Ketcham D.

Sleepy suburb. Shady streets, well -groomed lawns, cozy houses. Just a paradise for any teenager. Only not for Meg and not for her sister-stone Susan. At the very end of the street, in the cheese and dark basement of the Chandler family, they are helpless captives of their guardianship who took them after the death of their parents. A single mother, Ruth Chandler slowly slides into madness, entangled with greedy tentacles and her sons and the whole district. Only one boy decides to resist the cruelty of Ruth. And not only the life of the girls depends on his balanced, truly adult solution...

“Girl in the neighborhood”, based on the real brutal murder of a teenager from Indiana, came out in 1989. Before that, 3 novels have already been written about the murder of Sylvia Likens by different writers, but it was this book that made a deep impression by significantly increasing the reader's audience of Jack Ketcham.

The history of domestic violence in a small town was filmed twice, and they played in the films Famous actors such as Ellen Page, William Aterton, Katherine Kiner, James Franco.