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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

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What Have You Done?, July 2024
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Everyone Here Is Lying, August 2023
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The Couple Next Door, December 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The End of Her, November 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Not a Happy Family, July 2022
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Not a Happy Family, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The End of Her, June 2021
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The End of Her, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Someone We Know, May 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Someone We Know, August 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
An Unwanted Guest, May 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
An Unwanted Guest, August 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Couple Next Door, May 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Stranger in the House, August 2017
Hardcover / e-Book

THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
By: Shari Lapena

Penguin Books
May 2018
On Sale: April 24, 2018
Featuring: Marco Conti; Anne Conti
368 pages
ISBN: 0525505318
EAN: 9780525505310
Kindle: B01BD1SUBU
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (December 2022)

Thriller Crime

A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their too-friendly neighborsβ€”a rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives…and it all started at a dinner party.

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it allβ€”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 focuses 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.