It was the house of their dreams. Now it’s their worst nightmare . . .‘Spine-chilling’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A well-plotted tale . . . Intriguing. Twisty. Surprising. Touching’ DOROTHY KOOMSON‘Secrets, skeletons, mothers and daughters – and some absolutely corking twists! A cracking thriller, I loved it’ 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. Two 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? . . ._________DON’T MISS THE BRAND NEW THRILLER FROM CLAIRE DOUGLAS, THE WOMAN WHO LIED – AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER 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 PEARSEPraise 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

About the Author

Claire Douglas worked as a journalist for fifteen years, writing features for women’s magazines and national newspapers, but she dreamed of being a novelist from the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award, with her first novel, The Sisters, which was followed by Local Girl Missing, Last Seen Alive, Do Not Disturb, Then She Vanishes, Just Like the Other Girls, The Couple at No 9. and The Girls Who Disappeared. Her latest novel, The Woman Who Lied, spent eleven weeks in the Sunday Times top ten. She has sold nearly 2 million copies of her books in the UK.She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.

Reviews

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 *Expansive, emotional, with one of the very best end twists I’ve ever read. Douglas at her heart-stopping best — Gillian McAllisterGripping, twisty and hold-your-breath tense, this is Claire Douglas’s best book yet — Tim WeaverTwisty, nail-biting, and utterly absorbing, you won’t be able to put The Couple at No. 9 down — Louise O’NeillAnother page-turner . . . Twisty * New *Absolutely LOVED it. Twisty, turny and full of surprises. A definite 5 star — Angela MarsonsClaire is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit — Jane CorryFabulous. It had me reading late into the night, desperately needing to see what happens * Good Housekeeping *The perfect gripping holiday read — Lesley PearsePraise for Claire Douglas * – *Thrillingly tense and twisty * 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 realFew people do psychological thrillers as claustrophobic and as creepy as Claire Douglas * Tim Weaver *Book InformationISBN 9781405943406Author Claire DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm