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Chapters (71)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Part One
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  14. Part Two
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  67. Acknowledgments
  68. About the Author
  69. Praise for Claire Douglas and The Couple at Number 9
  70. Also by Claire Douglas
  71. About the Publisher

To the bloggers and reviewers for all your support, for the blog-tours and for taking time to read and review my books. I’m so grateful.

And finally to three amazing women who are sadly no longer with us. My great-grandmother Elizabeth Lane, my grandmother Rhoda Douglas and my great-aunty June Kennedy. All three were important women in my life and all sadly ended up with the cruel disease Alzheimer’s. And although – I’m pleased to say – they never had bodies buried in their gardens, their strength and spirit inspired me to write about Rose.

About the Author

CLAIRE DOUGLAS has worked as a journalist for fifteen years, writing features for women’s magazines and national newspapers, but she has 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 novel, The Sisters, which was one of the bestselling debut novels of 2015. She lives in Bath, England, with her husband and two children.

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Praise for Claire Douglas and The Couple at Number 9

“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 Number 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 Number 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

Also by Claire Douglas

Local Girl Missing

Last Seen Alive

Do Not Disturb

Then She Vanishes

Just Like the Other Girls

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About the Publisher

Australia

HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd.

Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street

Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

Canada

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower

22 Adelaide Street West, 41st Floor