When it's clear, or at least partially clear, what happened.any remaining tension hisses out like a pricked balloon.ġ. paint-by-numbers police investigation, led by the personality-free Detective Rasbach, who seems to cycle through potential theories.the same way Lapena must have in her early plotting stages, except it all ended up on the page. After numerous twists and turns, just when everything appears to be resolved, Lapena delivers one final, deftly crafted surprise.īrisk prose style and character development are almost beside the point in Lapena’s suspense-fiction debut this is a plot-driven page-turner, and even the most character-focused readers will find it hard to put down. Could the couple be covering up a kidnapping? Rasbach and Jennings suspect that they’re withholding something. The twists come as fast you can turn the pages.
Although I continued at a breakneck pace to the end, keen to see if Lapena would recover the tension she’d built up so well, it never quite recovered. Without giving anything away, the big reveal feels like a bit of a letdown. he set-up is fantastic – it’s just when Lapena has to deliver on the answers that the novel starts to slip. The tale of a child stolen from its cot is full of suspense but promises more than it delivers. Tired of comedy, she decided to try her hand at writing a thriller, and in 2016 she published The Couple Next Door. She has written two award-winning literary comedies: Things Go Flying (2008) and Economic Happiness (2011). What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family-a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist. ( From the publisher.)īefore turning to writing fiction, Shari Lapena worked as a lawyer and as an English teacher. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something.
Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. 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.Īnne and Marco Conti seem to have it all-a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora.īut one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed.
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