A Room Swept White
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 537
- ISBN-13
- 9780143177340
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Room Swept White precedes Lasting Damage in the Waterhouse and Zailer series, published in 2010. Sophie Hannah builds this entry around a fertility clinic conspiracy, one of the puzzle-box premises that only makes full sense in its closing chapters.
Key facts about A Room Swept White
A Room Swept White is a novel by Sophie Hannah. Readers have had it since 2010. It runs to 537 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of A Room Swept White. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780143177340 to find the main one.
A Room Swept White is book 5 of 12 in the Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime) series. The series has 12 published books. However, the series starts with Little Face (2006).
Additionally, Sophie Hannah writes Hercule Poirot and The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery, psychological thriller and cozy mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Opposite of Murder is the latest published Sophie Hannah book on file, from 29 January 2026.
About Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is a British novelist and poet, whose parents are novelist Adèle Geras and political theorist Norman Geras, who published poetry from her early twenties before building parallel careers in crime fiction. She holds academic posts at Cambridge, including a role helping create and run the university's Masters in Crime and Thriller Writing. See every Sophie Hannah book in order.
Its place in Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime)
A Room Swept White is book 5 in the Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime) series. It follows The Other Half Lives. It is followed by Lasting Damage. See the full Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime) reading order.
Before she became the authorized continuer of Hercule Poirot, Sophie Hannah made her name with this series of dense, twisty psychological crime novels set in the fictional English district of Culver Valley (nicknamed "Spilling CID" by fans, after the police station at its center). Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse — brilliant, socially awkward, and privately tormented — and Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer, whose complicated feelings for him thread through the series, anchor an ensemble that investigates…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781408461778
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780143177340
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340980637