The Couple Next Door

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have everything: a lovely home in the city, a solid marriage, and a beautiful baby daughter, Cora. When their babysitter cancels, they reluctantly leave Cora asleep at home and attend a dinner party next door, taking the baby monitor and agreeing to check on her every half hour. They come home to find the front door ajar and the crib empty.

As Detective Rasbach begins his investigation, the picture-perfect couple's account starts to fray. Everyone in this story is keeping something back — about that night, about their marriage, about the years before it — and the truth, when it surfaces, will implicate people no one suspected.

Shari Lapena's bestselling debut is a taut, twist-driven domestic thriller that turns an ordinary suburban street into a maze of secrets, where the most dangerous lies are the ones told closest to home.