The Couple Next Door

A Novel

De: Shari Lapena

Narrado por: Kirsten Potter

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Lapena’s books are addictive!”—Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid

“Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world...She is intensely bingeable.” —Lisa Jewell
It all started at a dinner party. . .

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. . .

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.

Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years.

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.

These twists and turns did not make a great ride..

Is there anything you would change about this book?

While this book had a number of twists and turns, I feel like towards the end the author was over-doing it and trying too hard to make the story surprising, that it kind of fell short. Some of the "twists" were rather unnecessary leaps, and eventually just felt exhausting.

What three words best describe Kirsten Potter’s voice?

For the most part I liked the narrator, sometimes not as much. She was passionate, but sometimes it was too much.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Definitely not, since movies usually aren't as good as the book, and this book was very good to begin with, I don't see a very good movie coming out of it.

overrated, story was monotonous, narrorater annoys

I don't know how this got high reviews, the narrorater was so annoying and the story drug on, I debated not finishing it

Predictable

I was looking forward for a good suspense novel and was disappointed. Very easy to figure out what's going on, who is bad and who is not.

Spiraling Drama

I plowed through this book in one day, it was great! It hooked me right from the start and didn’t let go – again I ask: what do you call a page turner when it’s an audiobook?

It was a moshpit of twists and turns, but good ones! Sometimes with stories that dramatically change directions out of nowhere, that's the point where the book gets stupid and I get off the ride… not this time! I hung on until the very end and I was glad I did.

I do admit that I think the ending was just one step too far, but this is fiction after all! It didn’t ruin the experience.

Full of twists and turns

Very enjoyable, kept me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who did it... So many twists and turns, great story!