Lasting Damage
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN-13
- 9781471261053
- Type
- novel
About this book
Lasting Damage, published in 2011, is the sixth Waterhouse and Zailer novel. Sophie Hannah's structural signature -- dual narration and a plot that resolves only at the very end -- continues across Simon and Charlie's evolving personal arc.
Key facts about Lasting Damage
Lasting Damage is a novel by Sophie Hannah. Readers have had it since 2011. It runs to 544 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Lasting Damage. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781471261053 to find the main one.
Lasting Damage is book 6 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)
Lasting Damage is book 6 in the Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime) series. It follows A Room Swept White. It is followed by Kind of Cruel. 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 9780143177364
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781444711486
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340980651