The Couple Next Door

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A Pamela Dorman Book / Viking

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Lapena, Shari, 1960– author.

Title: The couple next door / Shari Lapena.

Description: New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016017668 (print) | LCCN 2016024247 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735221086 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735221116 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Married people—Fiction. | Family secrets—Fiction. |

Neighbors—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary

Women. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PR9199.4.L366 C68 2016 (print) | LCC PR9199.4.L366 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017668

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.