![]() The Couple Next Door swoops right into the middle of the action, half way through the dinner party on the fateful night, written in present tense. The book had me hooked from the first few pages. Through the voice and theories of Detective Rasbach, she suggests that people are capable of anything and everything in certain situations. Lapena uses the kidnapping of the child to explore how far people are prepared to go to get what they want. Reaching the top of the Sunday Times Bestseller list, Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door was labelled ‘the new The Girl on the Train ’ by i magazine. Lapena maintains a sense of suspense in the novel, increasing the immediacy of the action. The police find prescription medicine for Anne’s postpartum depression and find bad business reports for Marco Conti, making both parents suspects in the kidnapping of their own daughter. But when they return, they discover the unthinkable has happened – somebody has taken Cora.Īnne and Marco understand their position looks bad – they left the child alone. Armed with a monitor and regular visits at half-hour intervals, they assume Cora will be fine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Couple Next Door, Anne and Marco Conti leave their sixth-month-old daughter, Cora, at home whilst they go next door for a dinner party. ![]()
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