Right away we are introduced to Marco and Anne - a young couple out for dinner at their neighbor's house. It is a little boring with the expected cliches - until they return home that is. They come home to find the unthinkable has happened. Their baby is missing.
A painful period begins for the parents while the search for the baby starts. With no leads, no clues and no evidence, suspicion begins to fall on the parents. How will it end for Marco and Anne? Can they really be guilty of kidnapping their own baby? The detective isn't sure. With so many secrets lurking beneath the surface, it'll take a lot of digging before the truth is revealed.
The Couple Next Door takes you on a ride that isn't worth taking. Aside from the depiction of the pain and horror the parents go through, nothing else made an impact. The detective makes cryptic statements about suspecting one person and then the next but we never really see his thought process or how he came to that conclusion.
Then there was that ending - if we can even call it that. It felt like another story at the end. One we didn't expect or even want. Without it, I would have counted this as an average book, with average characters, and a semi-interesting plot - with it, I can't help but feel the author didn't know what she was doing....
