Fans of Bravo’s deliciously over-the-top “Real Housewives of…” franchise can keep their vicarious thrill-seeking and gossip-dishing alive this summer with these naughty neighborhood novels.
The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky
The picture-perfect marriages in a Connecticut cul-de-sac begin to show their cracks when an attractive, widowed neighbor becomes pregnant.
Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
Long Island housewife Judith Singer discovers that murdered periodontist Dr. Bruce Fleckstein was drilling more than her neighbors’ teeth.
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Joanna Eberhart thinks she and her family are living the dream when they move to leafy Stepford. But what’s up with her cookie-baking neighbors? Seems a little too perfect.
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The anxious and unhappy parents in a quiet suburb walk out of their glass houses and direct their disappointments at a recently released pedophile who has moved into the neighborhood.
The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives by Sarah Strohmeyer
Marti Denton is the queen bee of her suburban trophy wife set, until former reporter Claire Stark marries Marti’s secret crush and moves into the neighborhood.
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
Uprooted New Yorker Kate Klein finds her child-free Connecticut afternoons more fulfilling once she starts investigating a wealthy neighbor’s murder.
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