The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson

Confined to his room, Matthew suffers with severe OCD and is scared of being contaminated with germs and passing it on to his family to him he believes will get sick and die if he didn't keep up with his cleaning routine he has. He also notes every movement of the neighbours as he watches behind his glass windows confined to his house like a fish in a tank.

When his neighbours grandson, fifteen months old too, goes missing suddenly Matthew finds himself along with other residents shocked. Only Matthew knows he can bring young Teddy home from his notes made hopefully. Along with some help from fellow neighbours Jake and Melody in investigating, they come to find out just how close to them the root cause of the kidnapping was.

We also learn as the novel progresses and Matthew battles his OCD, his baby brother never made it home from being born and it happened when Matthew had thrown up on his mum and he had chicken pox, therefore contaminating her and the baby.

This book was a brilliantly crafted piece of work and so great to read and not guessing who done it and be right as there were so many conflicting twists and turns to make it a read straight through in one sitting book for me and I loved it.