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She looks back at him in the dark and says, ‘I don’t know. I don’t remember.’

Acknowledgements

I owe thanks to so many. To Helen Heller, agent extraordinaire – thank you for everything. Heartfelt thanks also to everyone in the Marsh Agency for their superb representation worldwide.

Huge thanks to Brian Tart, Pamela Dorman, and all the people at Viking Penguin (US). Huge thanks also to Larry Finlay and Frankie Gray at Transworld UK and the fabulous team there. Thanks also to Kristin Cochrane, Amy Black, Bhavna Chauhan, and the supportive team at Doubleday Canada. I have the great good fortune to have wonderful marketing and publicity teams on both sides of the Atlantic.

Thanks to Ilsa Brink for website design.

I’m also very grateful to my first readers – Leslie Mutic, Sandra Ostler, and Cathie Colombo.

And of course, I couldn’t have written the book at all without the support of my family.

About the Author

Shari Lapena
worked as a lawyer and as an English teacher before writing fiction.
The Couple Next Door
is her debut thriller.

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Bantam Press

an imprint of Transworld Publishers

Copyright © 1742145 Ontario Limited 2016
Cover design by Richard Ogle/TW
Photography by Getty Images

Shari Lapena has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

This book is a work of fiction and, except in the case of historical fact, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781473541542

ISBN 9780593077382 (cased)
9780593077399 (tpb)

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