![]() ![]() With Marco’s business failing and Anne struggling to cope after Cora’s birth, the couple quickly become the main culprits in the kidnapping, but as one mystery is solved, two more takes its place and it’s not as clean-cut as just looking to the parents for answers. After baby Cora is taken from her crib in the middle of the night, Anne and Marco are thrown into both a police investigation and a media storm while their already-fractured relationship suffers further under the strain of new secrets with every break in the case. ![]() When their babysitter cancels at the last minute, they decide to leave their baby at home while taking over the baby monitor and checking on her every half hour – after all, they’ll only be next door, what could possibly go wrong?Īs it turns out, the absolute worst happens and The Couple Next Door takes a very real, very horrific premise and turns it into Marco and Anne’s twisted reality. The book opens with new parents Anne and Marco Conti enjoying a dinner party with their next door neighbours. This book is about so much more than two people, spiralling as it does into a network of secret and lies that involves families, neighbours and criminals alike and forces the question of just who can you trust in the darkest of times. First thing’s first with this novel: The Couple Next Door is a very misleading title. ![]()
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