Nosy Neighbors

"Author Freya Sampson is the patron saint of city dwellers who form unexpected, solid-as-steel friendships. In this story, it’s cantankerous septuagenarian Dorothy, who is rooted in place by her memories, and misanthropic 20-something Kat, who is trying to outrun hers. Dorothy is a long-term resident of the once resplendent, now crumbling Shelley House, an apartment building in a British village that also happens to be the first place Kat has been able to settle in and feel at home for years. When the building is threatened by developers and a neighbor turns up dead, the two combine forces in an effort to save their community."