Lapena throws into the mix Anne’s mega-rich parents, leading us to wonder if kidnapping is a possibility, shifting her perspective around from Marco – “Cora means everything to him. But Detective Rasbach and his team find nothing to show that anyone else has been in the house and the couple start to wonder if they’re falling under suspicion. It’s certainly true that The Couple Next Door opens brilliantly, its present-tense narrative adding to the urgency as Anne and Marco panic and the police arrive, discovering tyre tracks in the garage and the back door’s motion detector disabled. who have all turned to crime after originally writing either under other names and/or genres”. Like The Girl on a Train’s author, Paula Hawkins, Lapena’s publisher tells us, placing the novel firmly in the lucrative domestic suspense market at which it is aimed, Lapena “is one of an emerging trend of women writers. Trust me”, while Harlan Coben calls it “meticulously crafted and razor-sharp”. Mr Jack Reacher, Lee Child, tells us that “real men read women writers – because of books like this. Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door comes garlanded with quotes from fellow thriller writers.
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