Elise King · Book 2
Talking to Strangers
- Published
- 1 January 2024
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780593915356
- Type
- novel

About this book
Talking to Strangers followed two years later, in 2024, at 400 pages, built around a Valentine's Day murder that draws in a reporter running a parallel investigation alongside Elise King's own.
Its place in Elise King
Talking to Strangers is book 2 in the Elise King series. It follows Local Gone Missing. See the full Elise King reading order.
Fiona Barton's second series swaps her journalist protagonist for a police detective: Elise King, investigating crime in an English seaside community where longtime locals and wealthy weekenders eye each other with open suspicion. Local Gone Missing (2022) opens the series with a man's disappearance during a town festival; Talking to Strangers (2024) follows a Valentine's Day murder that draws in a reporter running her own parallel investigation -- a structural echo of the dual reporter/detective perspective…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593915356
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781787630864
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781787630857