The Couple at No 9
‘Spine-chilling’ - SUNDAY TIMES
$32.89
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2021
Summary
It was the house of her dreams. Until the first body was found.
A new emotionally dark and unsettling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller.
An inherited cottage. A body buried in the garden. And a secret spanning three generations.
When Saffy’s beloved grandmother, Rose, goes into a care home, Saffy learns that she has inherited her Cotswolds cottage.
But as work begins on much-needed renovations, the body of a young woman is uncovered in the garden. Who i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405943406 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1405943408 |
| Author: | Claire Douglas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 26mm |
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Praise for Claire Douglas
Spine-chilling … Douglas writes sensitively about dementia in this heartbreaking novel about how far a desperate woman will go to survive
* Sunday Times *This book has everything I love: murder, a taut and fiendishly clever plot and nail-biting tension – Emma CurtisA darkly absorbing mystery * Crime Monthly *Combines a tight, gripping plot and truly shocking twist, with beautiful writing and emotion. A thriller with a heart. One of the best I have read in a long time – Nuala EllwoodSecrets, skeletons, mothers and daughters - and some absolutely corking twists! A cracking thriller, I loved it – Eve Chase, author of The Glass HouseA well-plotted tale. All the characters are hiding things and you’re often waiting for the next secret to blow up. Intriguing. Twisty. Surprising. Touching. Enjoyed it – Dorothy KoomsonDevotees of domestic noir will love the multiple perspectives and shifts in time that Claire Douglas uses to complicate her nervy narrative * The Times Crime Club Newsletter *Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at No. 9 is Claire’s best thriller yet – Gilly MacmillanThis well-paced thriller never lets up the pace, and delivers a twist that it’s unlikely you will have seen coming * Choice Magazine *Dense and deeply creepy, this is a top-class chiller * Real People *About The Author
Claire Douglas
Claire Douglas worked as a journalist for fifteen years, writing features for women’s magazines and national newspapers, but had dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with her first novel, The Sisters. She is a Sunday Times bestseller and a frequent Richard & Judy Book Club pick. Her books have sold over two million copies in the UK alone. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.
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