Name: Aggie Blum Thompson: The Neighbors Are Watching
Start: 2026-07-31T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-31T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Frederick Book Arts Center

Aggie Blum Thompson: The Neighbors Are Watching

Join Curious Iguana on Friday, July 31 at Frederick Book Arts Center from 6:00-7:00 pm for a thrilling evening with author Aggie Blum Thompson to celebrate her latest release, The Neighbors Are Watching. This story focuses on the “perfect” neighbors in the idyllic suburb of Eastbrook, Bethesda as they work together to expose a killer in their midst. Aggie will be joined in conversation by fellow thriller writer K.T. Nguyen. Following their discussion, Aggie will answer questions and sign books. Copies of The Neighbors Are Watching will be available for purchase at the event.
This event is free and open to the public. For accessibility requests, email [email protected] at least two (2) weeks prior to the event.
About the book: From the “master of suburban scandal” (Samantha M. Bailey) comes a scandalous twisty thriller about obsession, betrayal, and the price of perfection.
Just outside Washington, DC, sits Eastbrook, Bethesda—a leafy suburb with top schools, pristine landscapes, and perfect neighbors. It’s not the kind of place where nannies are shot during robberies gone wrong. And in this picture-perfect neighborhood, someone is desperate to plaster over the cracks in that façade.
A year after the unsolved neighborhood murder, Caren, nearing fifty and staring down an empty nest, has one too many drinks at a graduation party and blacks out on her way home. At least, that’s what everyone says happened. Caren suspects she was drugged by someone. But who?
When Caren teams up with a new neighbor who is desperate to figure out who murdered his best friend last year, they start to uncover what Eastbrook has tried to forget. But in a place where appearances are everything, their search for the truth means not only shattering carefully curated perfection — but putting themselves squarely in the crosshairs of a killer.
About the author: Before turning to fiction, Aggie Blum Thompson covered real-life crime as a newspaper reporter for a number of papers, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Aggie is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives with her husband and two children in the suburbs of Washington DC.
About the moderator: K.T. Nguyen is a former editor at Glamour magazine. Her psychological thriller YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID received the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. In a starred review, Booklist described Nguyen’s novel as “a twisty horror-filled thriller” and an “incredibly compelling debut.” When she’s not writing, you’ll find K.T. practicing Krav Maga, watching the Mets, or playing with her terrier Alice. A graduate of Brown University, K.T. lives just outside Washington, D.C.