The Couple Next Door By Shari Lapena
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The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena In a way I'm glad I read this book after A Stranger in the House , Lapena's second book. That book was not a highlight of my reading year thus far. Going into The Couple Next Door , my expectations were low, so I was pleasantly surprised to have been entirely engaged with the story. Though the writing was the same third person-present tense format, this time around the style worked far better for me. The Couple Next Door is about a young couple whose baby is kidnapped while they are next door at a dinner party. Both parents are to blame for leaving the baby unattended, even though they check on her every half hour throughout the night. As the crime is investigated, they are both under suspicion. The mother, Anne, has a condition she has kept hidden from her husband. Could she have killed the baby without remembering she had done it, and did her husband dispose of the body to cover for her? Did the husband, Marco, fake a kidnapping in order ...
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena Karen Krupp gets into a car accident and loses a part of her memory. What she does remember is that someone had been in her house, many times, moving things. She received a phone call that scared her and made her leave behind her identification as she raced to meet a man from her past in the bad part of town, a place no one can believe she would visit. Her husband Tom learns of the accident from the police and rushes to her side. The story explores a murder that took place that same night in the same neighborhood. The police finger Karen as the suspect and the mystery unfolds. Who is lying and who is to blame? The Krupps' neighbor Brigid gets involved. She is in love with Tom, but is Karen's best friend. Brigid watches the Krupps from her picture window, is obsessed with their lives because she is unhappy with her own. As the story unfolds, we learn that Tom and Brigid had an affair before the Krupps married, and that Karen is not who...