The Couple Next Door

Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. The Couple Next Door lingers long after you turn the final page

Harlan Coben

Provocative and shocking. One crime, an entire neighborhood of suspects, secrets and lies. How well do we ever know those around us? The Couple Next Door will keep you glued to the pages in search of the answer. Even then, you'll never guess the truth...until it's too late

Lisa Gardner

Gripped me from the very beginning to the very end!

Becky Masterman, author of RAGE AGAINST THE DYING

Gripping, pacy, with characters that keep you guessing and second guessing. Loved it

Tammy Cohen

I read this novel at one sitting absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!

Sue Grafton

‘2016’s most talked-about new thriller’

Stylist

‘A twisty, utterly riveting tale that will send readers on a wild rollercoaster ride of emotions. Shocking revelations kept me turning the pages like a madwoman’

Tess Gerritsen

‘Real men read women writers - because of books like this. Trust me'

Lee Child

[A] suspenseful, heart-wrenching debut

Publishers Weekly

The new The GIRL ON THE TRAIN.

I MAGAZINE

Every chapter poses another question in this gripping thriller documenting every parent’s worst fear

Essentials

The Couple Next Doors hits all those thriller sweet spots, with its characters acting in the worst ways possible and a plot that speeds through to a hell of a climax....you can’t not read it this summer.

Stylist

A gripping page-turner

Bella

A treat of a thriller that careers along at breakneck page

Good Housekeeping's Good Reads

Shari Lapena furnishes a clever array of motives and suspects. The tension is high and remains to the last, stunning page

The Times

Lapena leads us on a cunningly plotted cat-and-mouse trail to the truth while building a horribly queasy portrait of a marriage under terrific strain

Metro

Entirely compelling, utterly realistic and told in a wonderfully effective spare narrative. You will not see the twists coming

Daily Mail

…stark, bluntly told emotional thriller. Dizzying hairpin twists and turns.

Sainsbury's magazine

A riveting thriller.

woman&home

'I thought the read-it-in-one-sitting thing was a cliche. Not any more'

Linwood Barclay

Twisty, frenetic...tight, effective storytelling

Guardian

Compulsive and the denouement comes as a satisfying surprise.

The i

a gripping, twisting story in which you're never quite sure of anyone's motives until they're shockingly exposed.

Crime Scene

Told in a realistic and un-hysterical way, the twists and turns are all the more shocking - the best white-knuckle ride of the year.

Daily Mail