Elise King · Book 2

Talking to Strangers

by Fiona Barton

Published
1 January 2024
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780593915356
Type
novel

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Cover of Talking to Strangers

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…

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