Acid Row Walters, Minette

A convicted pedophile moves into a housing estate on the hottest day of summer, and within hours, a child goes missing. What happens next is a powder keg of mob violence, misinformation, and moral panic. Walters drops us into Acid Row — a low-income British estate where suspicion spreads faster than fact, and vigilante justice erupts in brutal, chaotic waves. This isn't a whodunit; it's a study in how fear and rage can torch a community from the inside out. Walters writes with surgical precision about class, prejudice, and the terrifying speed at which civilization can collapse when people believe they're protecting their own. The tension is suffocating, the social commentary sharp, and the violence uncomfortably real. If you like psychological thrillers that double as social autopsies, this one cuts deep.