The Couple at No 9: The unputdownable and nail-biting Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month
By Claire Douglas

It was the house of their dreams. Now it's their worst nightmare . . .THEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER AND CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH'Spine-chilling'and SUNDAY TIMES'A well-plotted tale . . . Intriguing. Twisty. Surprising. Touching'and DOROTHY KOOMSON'Secrets, skeletons, mothers and daughters - and some absolutely corking twists! A cracking thriller, I loved it'and EVE CHASE_________BODIES FOUND UNDER PATIOWhen pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body.and Twoand bodies, in fact.POLICE INVESTIGATEForensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years, which leads the police to question the cottage's former owner - Saffy's grandmother, Rose.OWNER QUESTIONEDRose's Alzheimer's means her memory is increasingly confused. She can't help the police - but it is clear she remembers something.A KILLER AT LARGE?As Rose's fragmented memories resurface, and the police dig ever deeper, Saffy fears she and the cottage are being watched . . .What happened thirty years ago?What part did her grandmother play?And is Saffy now in danger? . . ._________'This book has everything I love: murder, a taut and fiendishly clever plot and nail-biting tension'and EMMA CURTIS'Combines a tight, gripping, plot and truly shocking twist, with beautiful writing and emotion. A thriller with a heart'and NUALA ELLWOOD'A darkly absorbing mystery'and CRIME MONTHLY'Twisty, nail-biting, and utterly absorbing, you won't be able to putand The Couple at No. 9and down'and LOUISE O'NEILL'Expansive, emotional, with one of the very best end twists I've ever read. Douglas at her heart-stopping best'and GILLIAN MCALLISTER'The perfect gripping holiday read'and LESLEY PEARSEPraise for Claire Douglas'Few people do psychological thrillers as claustrophobic and as creepy as Claire Douglas'and Tim Weaver, bestselling author ofand No One Home'Thrillingly tense and twisty'and B. A. Paris,and bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors'Stunning . . . with a killer twist'and Closer'Perfect for fans ofand The Girl on the Train'and Marie Claire'Twisty, exciting yet so very real'and Gillian McAllister,and bestselling author of Anything You Do Say