A Room Swept White: Culver Valley Crime Book 5 - Softcover

Sophie Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340980648 ISBN 13: 9780340980644

Publisher: Hodder Pb, 2010

Synopsis

TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four - numbers that mean nothing to her. On the same day, Fliss finds out she's going to be working on a documentary about miscarriages of justice involving cot-death mothers wrongly accused of murder. The documentary will focus on three women: Helen Yardley, Sarah Jaggard and Rachel Hines. All three women are now free, and the doctor who did her best to send them to prison for life, child protection zealot Dr Judith Duffy, is under investigation for misconduct. For reasons she has shared with nobody, this is the last project Fliss wants to be working on. And then Helen Yardley is found dead at her home, and in her pocket is a card with sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four ...

About this title

About the Author

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her crime novels have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. In 2014 and 2016, Sophie published The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket, the first new Hercule Poirot mysteries since Agatha Christie's death, both of which were national and international bestsellers. Sophie's novels The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie is also a bestselling poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE and A-level throughout the UK. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, two children and dog.

Review

Sophie Hannah has quickly established herself as a doyenne of the 'home horror' school of psychological tension, taking domestic situations and wringing from them dark, gothic thrills . . . Combining probability theory, poetry and murder, this is a densely plotted suspenser with a coded puzzle that would grace a Golden Age mystery * Financial Times * Hannah takes domestic scenarios, adds disquieting touches and turns up the suspense until you're checking under the bed for murders . . . it's this real-life research that helps make it so convincing - and so unsettling * Independent * Enthrallingly Complex * Sunday Times * Hannah is a master of intense psychological thrillers . . . Full of twists and turns, and terrifying, too * Heat * A remarkable novel, and an adventure to read . . . a first-class whodunnit that will keep you reading long into the night * Scotsman * This book's triumph is that it is not just a perfectly executed psychological thriller, but a pertinent meditation on society itself * Guardian * When it comes to ingenious plots that twist and turn like a fairground rollercoaster few writers can match Sophie Hannah * Daily Express *

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Pb
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0340980648
• ISBN 13: 9780340980644
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 480