The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena

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Title: The Couple Next Door
Author: Shari Lapena
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 320 pages
Date read: December, 2016


You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall.

Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying.

Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back every half hour.

Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. She's gone.

You've never had to call the police before. But now they're in your home, and who knows what they'll find there.

What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit?


Absolutely thrilling book. I could NOT put it down and read it in just two sittings (would have been one if it hadn't been for work). Told by multiple narrators (and not all reliable ones) it had me guessing till the very end.

It would have been a solid 5 star book... but unfortunately I did NOT care for the last two pages. That was a twist I could happily have done without and which (I felt) was totally unnecessary for the book. So that knocked it down a star, but I'd still consider it one of the best thrillers I've read all year.