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  • Published: 30 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405943406
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.00

The Couple at No 9

‘Spine-chilling’ - SUNDAY TIMES




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 is she? During Rose's more lucid moments, she reveals snippets of information that Saffy pieces together.
And then another body is discovered.
As she delves into Rose's past, Saffy uncovers dark secrets, calling into question everything she thought she knew about her family.

  • Published: 30 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405943406
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.00

About the author

Claire Douglas

Claire Douglas has worked as a journalist for fifteen years writing features for women's magazines and national newspapers, but she's 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 lives in Bath with her husband and two children.

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Praise for The Couple at No 9

Praise for Claire Douglas

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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

Few people do psychological thrillers as claustrophobic and as creepy as Claire Douglas

Tim Weaver

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. One of the best I have read in a long time

Nuala Ellwood

Secrets, skeletons, mothers and daughters - and some absolutely corking twists! A cracking thriller, I loved it

Eve Chase, author of <i>The Glass House</i>

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

Twisty, nail-biting, and utterly absorbing, you won't be able to put The Couple at No. 9 down

Louise O'Neill

The perfect gripping holiday read

Lesley Pearse

Claire is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit

Jane Corry

Expansive, emotional, with one of the very best end twists I've ever read. Douglas at her heart-stopping best

Gillian McAllister

Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at No. 9 is Claire's best thriller yet

Gilly Macmillan

Gripping, twisty and hold-your-breath tense, this is Claire Douglas's best book yet

Tim Weaver

A darkly absorbing mystery

Crime Monthly

This well-paced thriller never lets up the pace, and delivers a twist that it's unlikely you will have seen coming

Choice Magazine

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

Dense and deeply creepy, this is a top-class chiller

Real People

Spine-chilling . . . Douglas writes sensitively about dementia in this heartbreaking novel about how far a desperate woman will go to survive

Sunday Times

Another page-turner . . . Twisty

New

Absolutely LOVED it. Twisty, turny and full of surprises. A definite 5 star

Angela Marsons

Fabulous. It had me reading late into the night, desperately needing to see what happens

Good Housekeeping