The Other Side of Everything by Lauren Doyle Owens

When a few female senior citizens are murdered in their homes, the neighborhood that the victims resided in goes on high alert. Octogenarian Bernard and his friends decide to take action and make sure that the older single women are not alone by having a single man in the group move in with them until the perpetrator is caught. While Amy, an artist in her 30's, begins to create paintings about the crimes. Another neighbor, teenager Maddie is home alone a lot with her younger brother since her mother abandoned the family. Maddie also has doubts that the man the police are targeting is guilty since she knows him as a customer at the restaurant where she works as a waitress. In The Other Side of Everything, Owens explores the aftereffects of a series of crimes through these three characters and their intersecting lives. As suggested by the publisher on the flyleaf of the book, give to readers who enjoy Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman's standalone novels. Also, the wonderful yet not well-known The Long and Faraway Gone is a great alike.