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The Downstairs Neighbor by Helen Cooper

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Also by Helen Cooper:

My Darling Boy, December 2024
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The Couple in the Photo, December 2023
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The Other Guest, August 2022
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The Downstairs Neighbor, April 2022
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The Downstairs Neighbor, February 2021
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THE DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBOR
By: Helen Cooper

G.P. Putnam's Sons
April 2022
On Sale: March 29, 2022
Featuring: Emma; Chris; Steph
480 pages
ISBN: 0593539966
EAN: 9780593539965
Kindle: B089S6GM9D
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Women's Fiction Psychological

From her downstairs apartment in suburban London, Emma has often overheard the everyday life of the seemingly perfect family upstairs--Steph, Paul and teenage daughter Freya--but has never got to know them. Until one day, she hears something that seizes her attention: Freya has vanished and the police are questioning Steph and Paul about their life. Do either of you have any enemies? Anyone who might want to harm or threaten you?

The effects of Freya's disappearance ripple outward, affecting not just her parents, but everyone who lives in the building, including Emma and local driving instructor Chris, who was the last person to see the teenager before she went missing. Each character's life is thrown into sharp focus as devastating mistakes and long-held secrets are picked apart and other crimes come to light--including a child gone missing twenty-five years earlier, and a shocking murder--that make clear that the past never stays where we leave it, and that homes can be built on foundations of lies.