The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena, 2016
A couple leaves their baby alone next door for one dinner party. Walking home, they discover how little they know each other.
Shari Lapena
Canadian author Shari Lapena was a lawyer and high-school English teacher before turning to fiction; The Couple Next Door was her first thriller after two comic novels.
Feels like dread, society and unease.
The moment a quiet house becomes the wrong kind of quiet.
Anne feels her scream inside her own head and reverberating off the walls-her scream is everywhere. Then she falls silent and stands in front of the empty crib, rigid, her hand to her mouth. Marco fumbles with the light switch. They both stare at the empty crib where their baby should be. It is impossible that she not be there. There is no way Cora could have gotten out of the crib by herself. She is barely six months old. Books by Shari Lapena
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