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The Couple at No 9: The unputdownable and nail-biting Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month Kindle Edition
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It was the house of their dreams. Now it's their worst nightmare . . .
THE GRIPPING NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
'A well-plotted tale . . . Intriguing. Twisty. Surprising. Touching. Enjoyed it' DOROTHY KOOMSON
'I couldn't think of anything else whilst reading this. The plot was so well crafted, the characters so realistic' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Secrets, skeletons, mothers and daughters - and some absolutely corking twists! A cracking thriller, I loved it' EVE CHASE
'Spine-chilling' SUNDAY TIMES
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When Saffron Cutler and boyfriend Tom move into 9 Skelton Place, they didn't expect to find this.
Two bodies, buried under the patio over thirty years ago.
When the police launch a murder investigation, they ask to speak to the cottage's former owner - Saffy's grandmother, Rose, whose Alzheimer's clouds her memory.
But it is clear she remembers something . . .
What happened thirty years ago?
What part did her grandmother play?
And is Saffy now in danger? . . .
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DON'T MISS THE BRAND NEW THRILLER FROM CLAIRE DOUGLAS, THE GIRLS WHO DISAPPEARED - AVAILABLE NOW!
'This book has everything I love: murder, a taut and fiendishly clever plot and nail-biting tension' EMMA CURTIS
'Combines a tight, gripping, plot and truly shocking twist, with beautiful writing and emotion. A thriller with a heart' NUALA ELLWOOD
'A darkly absorbing mystery' CRIME MONTHLY
'Twisty, nail-biting, and utterly absorbing, you won't be able to put The Couple at No. 9 down' LOUISE O'NEILL
'Expansive, emotional, with one of the very best end twists I've ever read. Douglas at her heart-stopping best' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'Devotees 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
'The perfect gripping holiday read' LESLEY PEARSE
Praise for Claire Douglas
'Few people do psychological thrillers as claustrophobic and as creepy as Claire Douglas' Tim Weaver, bestselling author of No One Home
'Thrillingly tense and twisty' B. A. Paris, bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors
'Stunning . . . with a killer twist' Closer
'Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train' Marie Claire
'Twisty, exciting yet so very real' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Anything You Do Say
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date16 Sept. 2021
- File size2807 KB
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"This gripping tale is sure to garner her new fans." -- Publishers Weekly
"The stories of the three women play out in a shadowy narrative that is tense and compelling and often touching until the horrifying truth is revealed. This mindbender from the best-selling Douglas will hit the spot with fans of Fiona Barton and Paula Hawkins." -- Booklist
Featuring multiple points of view and realistic characters, the latest twisty thriller from Douglas will appeal to fans of taut page-turners like The Turn of the Key and The Guest List. -- Shelf Awareness
An emotion-churning series of twists and turns uniting two disparate sets of people in a hunt for the truth. -- New York Journal of Books
Marvelously well-written. -- Seattle Book Review
Gripping, twisty and hold-your-breath tense, this is Claire Douglas's best book yet. -- Tim Weaver, bestselling author of No One Home
A 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 Koomson, bestselling author of All My Lies are True
Secrets, skeletons, mothers and daughters--and some absolutely corking twists! A cracking thriller, I loved it. -- Eve Chase, bestselling author of The Glass House
This book has everything I love: murder, a taut and fiendishly clever plot and nail-biting tension. -- Emma Curtis, bestselling author of One Little Mistake
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 Ellwood, bestselling author of The House on the Lake
Twisty, nail-biting, and utterly absorbing, you won't be able to put The Couple at No. 9 down. -- Louise O'Neill, author of After the Silence
Expansive, emotional, with one of the very best end twists I've ever read. Douglas at her heart-stopping best. -- Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of The Evidence Against You
Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at No. 9 is Claire's best thriller yet. -- Gilly MacMillan, bestselling author of What She Knew
Claire is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit. -- Jane Corry, bestselling author of I Made a Mistake
The perfect gripping holiday read. -- Lesley Pearse, bestselling author of Suspects
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Claire Douglas has worked as a journalist for fifteen years, writing features for women's magazines and newspapers, but she's dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning Marie Claire's Debut Novel Award for her first book, The Sisters, which became a bestseller. She lives in Bath, England, with her husband and two children.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Product details
- ASIN : B07VP5BKSW
- Publisher : Penguin (16 Sept. 2021)
- Language : English
- File size : 2807 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 407 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0063246325
- Best Sellers Rank: 915 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 59 in Women's Psychological Fiction
- 76 in Women's Detective Fiction
- 83 in Women's Crime Fiction
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About the author

Claire Douglas is the award winning author of seven stand alone thrillers, THE SISTERS, LOCAL GIRL MISSING, LAST SEEN ALIVE, DO NOT DISTURB, THEN SHE VANISHES, JUST LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS and her most recent, THE COUPLE AT NO. 9, which is a number one Amazon bestseller and reached number three on the Sunday Times bestsellers list. Her books have sold over 500,000 copies in the UK and have been translated into twenty languages.
You can find Claire on Twitter at @DougieClaire, Instagram as clairedouglasauthor, or visit her Facebook page clairedouglasauthor.
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I read this book alongside a few others. It kept my attention because I wanted to know what happened; what was GOING to happen, but I wasn’t gripped. It was okay though because it was a simmering plot and it worked well for me.
The characters worked well together. When they gelled it was beautiful, and when there was stress between them you could feel it yourself as the reader, because Douglas makes you feel like you’re in the mind of the characters; feeling everything along with them - sometimes even empathising with them when they’re wrong.
Douglas writes an intricately-woven story that is a beauty to unravel. The tension builds gradually, and with the help of a dual timeline (something I don’t usually enjoy but with this book absolutely LOVED), new events and characters were unearthed (no pun intended), and we realise things aren’t quite as they seem. The last third of this book had me totally gripped.
Unusual for me, but I worked out the twist at about 75%, but it didn’t ruin it for me; it made it more exciting and eager to get to the “unveiling” of the truth. I loved the story; it was so well written; you could tell Douglas worked at this from all angles and considered absolutely everything. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this book is a gem; I can see why it’s popular 👌🏼









