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The Couple Next Door

  • 351 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2016
  • 17 editions

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1 About this book

It all started at a dinner party...

A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors—a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives...

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.

Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years.

Good for readers who want: a thriller and a mystery.

  • Family life
  • Thrillers
  • Mystery
  • Neighbors
  • Family secrets
  • Married people
  • Contemporary Women
  • Secrecy

2 About Shari Lapeña

Born 1960

Shari Lapena (born 1960) is a Canadian novelist. Lapena, a lawyer and English teacher before beginning her writing career, published her debut novel Things Go Flying in 2008. That novel was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award in 2009. Her second novel, Happiness Economics, was a Stephen Leacock Award finalist in 2012. Her books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She lives in Toronto.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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