Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime) · Book 12
The Couple at the Table
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9780063266186
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Couple at the Table arrived six years after The Narrow Bed, continuing the Waterhouse and Zailer series in 2022. Sophie Hannah returned to Culver Valley after the gap with the same dual-narration puzzle-box structure that has defined the series since Little Face.
Its place in Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime)
The Couple at the Table is book 12 in the Waterhouse and Zailer (Culver Valley Crime) series. It follows The Narrow Bed. 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 9780063257719
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063266186