When No One Is Watching: A Thriller

"A neighborhood in Brooklyn is gentrifying at breakneck speed – many of its longtime residents, elderly and Black, are moving suddenly, just … disappearing. Sydney Green, born and raised in Brooklyn, has escaped an abusive marriage on the West Coast and returned to her childhood brownstone to nurse her ill mother. The more Sydney pushes to discover what’s happening to her neighborhood, the stronger the story’s underlying vein of menace gets. (There’s even a website that sounds an awful lot like Nextdoor where the white gentrifiers make secret plans to make sure they will soon be in the majority.) Alyssa Cole, well-known for her romances, manages to combine elements of race, class, conspiracy and history (and a little love) into one satisfyingly creepy book."