Claire Douglas

Alice ja Tasha ovat sisarukset, joiden elämät eivät voisi enempää erota toisistaan. Alicella ja hänen varakkaalla yrittäjämiehellään on menestyksekäs ura, kun taas Tasha elää tavallista elämää autonasentajamiehensä ja pienten kaksostyttäriensä kanssa.Piristääkseen sisartaan Alice tarjoaa Tashalle ja tämän puolisolle Venetsian asuntoaan viikoksi. Hän itse tulee miehensä Kylen kanssa Tashan kotiin hoitamaan kaksosia. Kaikki menee kuitenkin pahemman kerran pieleen, kun Kyle yllättää murtovarkaan keskellä yötä ja saa surmansa.Oliko kyse vain yllätetystä murtovarkaasta vai sittenkin jostakin muusta? Jonkin ajan kuluttua Tasha saa kirjeen, jossa väitetään, että väärä ihminen kuoli. Kansainvälinen dekkarikuningatar Claire Douglas jatkaa jännittävien juonikuvioiden punomista uutuusteoksessaan, jossa salaisuudet odottavat paljastumistaan ja sukulaissuhteet osoittavat niin monimutkaisuutensa kuin voimansa.

Nuoripari Saffy ja Tom odottaa esikoistaan ja kunnostaa Saffyn isoäidiltään perimää taloa pienessä englantilaiskylässä. Kesken remontin talon puutarhasta löytyvät nuoren naisen ja miehen ruumiit.Löydön myötä Saffyn perheen syvälle haudatut salaisuudet alkavat nousta pintaan. Ovatko vanhainkodissa asuvan isoäidin puheet vain dementoituneen höpinää? Entä miksi välit Espanjaan muuttaneeseen äitiin katkesivat? Lopulta Saffy joutuu kyseenalaistamaan kaiken, mitä luuli tietävänsä suvustaan, koko identiteettinsä.Kansainvälisen dekkarikuningatar Claire Douglasin suomenkielinen avaus esittelee henkeäsalpaavien käänteiden, hurjien salaisuuksien ja aitojen ihmissuhteiden kuvaamisen mestarin, jonka kirjaa ei malta laskea käsistään ennen kuin viimeinenkin arvoitus on ratkennut.

When Imogen receives the news that she has inherited the crumbling mansion belonging to the late renowned artist, Dorothea Rowe, she is shocked. Apart from spending one summer as a teenager in Dorothea’s house, Imogen barely knew the reclusive elderly lady.As Imogen begins to look into Dorothea’s past, she finds more questions than answers. There’s the stacks of letters that reveal the dark side of her first marriage, and the grotesque life-sized models in the basement – Dorothea’s final project – that someone is determined to stop from being revealed to the public.Imogen soon realises that Dorothea’s sudden death might not be an accident and, if she wants to discover the truth, she risks exposing her own secrets, as well as Dorothea’s…

In this sensational thriller from the number-one internationally bestselling author, two sisters discover that the secrets they keep from each other prove to be deadly.You've known her all your life. Or have you?Tasha and her older sister Alice may look alike, but they couldn't be more different. Tasha's married with two children and still lives in their hometown near Bristol. Alice is a high-flying scientist who travels the world with her equally successful husband.Yet each sister would trust the other with her life.When Tasha and her husband Aaron need a break and Alice offers to stay in their home with the kids, Tasha knows her family is in safe hands.She couldn't be more wrong.The call from home is devastating. Alice and her husband Kyle have been attacked, leaving Alice in intensive care and Kyle dead. Rushing to the hospital, Tasha finds the police trying to piece events together. She can't think why anyone would attack her sister.Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha: It was supposed to be you . . .Every family has secrets. Some more deadly than others.

"Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at Number 9 is Claire's best thriller yet."--Gilly MacMillan, bestselling author of What She KnewThe internationally bestselling author of Do Not Disturb and Just Like the Other Girls delivers a heart-pounding psychological thriller about a couple who inherit what seems to be their dream home, until they make a horrifying discovery--and the danger begins.The Victims . . . When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering human remains. The remains of two bodies, in fact.The Investigation . . . Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Saffy has nothing to worry about--until the police launch a murder inquiry and ask to speak to the cottage's former owner. Her grandmother, Rose.The Witness . . . Rose is in a nursing home and Alzheimer's means her memory is increasingly confused. She can't help the police, but its' clear she remembers something. The Killer . . . As Rose's fragmented memories resurface, and the police dig ever deeper, Saffy fears she and the cottage are being watched.The Truth . . . What happened thirty years ago? Why did no one miss the victims? What part did her grandmother play? And is Saffy now in danger?

"Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at Number 9 is Claire's best thriller yet."--Gilly MacMillan, bestselling author of What She KnewThe internationally bestselling author of Do Not Disturb and Just Like the Other Girls delivers a heart-pounding psychological thriller about a couple who inherit what seems to be their dream home, until they make a horrifying discovery--and the danger begins.The Victims . . . When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering human remains. The remains of two bodies, in fact.The Investigation . . . Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Saffy has nothing to worry about--until the police launch a murder inquiry and ask to speak to the cottage's former owner. Her grandmother, Rose.The Witness . . . Rose is in a nursing home and Alzheimer's means her memory is increasingly confused. She can't help the police, but its' clear she remembers something. The Killer . . . As Rose's fragmented memories resurface, and the police dig ever deeper, Saffy fears she and the cottage are being watched.The Truth . . . What happened thirty years ago? Why did no one miss the victims? What part did her grandmother play? And is Saffy now in danger?

From the award-winning author of The Sisters, Local Girl Missing and Last Seen Alive, comes a taut psychological thriller in which family secrets and hidden pasts build to a violent climax in a guesthouse among the idyllic Welsh mountains. Following a traumatic event in London, Kirsty Woodhouse packs up her family and moves back to her native Wales. There she sets up her new home with her husband and two young daughters, and goes into business with her difficult mother managing a guesthouse in the Brecon Beacons. But when the guesthouse is ready to be occupied, Kirsty encounters the last person she ever expected to see: her estranged cousin Selena. It has been seventeen years since they last talked--when Selena tore everything apart between them. Why has she chosen now to walk back into Kirsty's life? Is Selena running from something too? Or is there an even darker reason for her visit? As Kirsty becomes increasingly concerned for the safety of her daughters, her dream home begins to feel like her worst nightmare. Kirsty knows that once you invite trouble into your home, it can be murder getting rid of it . . .

"Thrillingly tense and twisty, a great read." -- B. A. Paris, the bestselling author of Behind Closed DoorsOne woman is trapped in the death-grip of the past--and every one of its dark secrets--in this riveting novel of psychological suspense from Claire Douglas, award-winning author of The Sisters and Local Girl Missing.As much as Libby Hall needs a vacation, she's never considered taking one until she sees the note for a house swap. Suffering a miscarriage was a personal turning point. Saving a child from a burning school was a public one. Just as the emotional fallout of both incidents takes its toll, along comes her lifesavers--the Heywoods, a couple in need of a getaway of their own.Libby and her husband Jamie can't believe their good fortune when they arrive at the Heywood's isolated seaside estate with its panoramic views--and just in exchange for their drab two-bedroom apartment. How generous of the Heywoods Yet how odd. Libby almost feels guilty until the home yields disquieting surprises: a fortune in hidden surveillance equipment, a stranger in the garden who watches them, and the make-shift operating room in the basement...When Jamie falls dangerously ill, all Libby wants is to return to their comfortably imperfect lives. But it's already too late. Libby has just discovered the Heywoods' biggest secret. And when it appears that even Jamie is hiding something from her, Libby's paranoia gets the best of her. It should. For she has buried secrets of her own. As the past comes crawling out of the darkness, Libby fears she's walked into an elaborate trap. But who has set it? What do they want of her? And what is she willing to risk to make it out alive...?

Someone knows where she is...The old Victorian pier was a thing of beauty until it was allowed to decay. It was where the youth of Oldcliffe-on-Sea would go to hang out. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier disappeared eighteen years ago. Francesca Howe, known as Frankie, was Sophie's best friend, and even now she is haunted by the mystery of what happened to her. When Frankie gets a call from Sophie's brother, Daniel, informing her that human remains have been found washed up nearby, she immediately wonders if it could be Sophie, and returns to her old hometown to try and find closure. Now an editor at a local newspaper, Daniel believes that Sophie was terrified of someone and that her death was the result of foul play rather than "death by misadventure," as the police claim.Daniel arranges a holiday rental for Frankie that overlooks the pier where Sophie disappeared. In the middle of winter and out of season, Frankie feels isolated and unnerved, especially when she is out on the pier late one night and catches a glimpse of a woman who looks like Sophie. Is the pier really haunted, as they joked all those years ago? Could she really be seeing her friend's ghost? And what actually happened to her best friend all those years ago?Harrowing, electrifying, and thoroughly compelling, Local Girl Missing showcases once again bestselling author Claire Douglas' extraordinary storytelling talent.

You know your neighbours are plotting a crime but no one believes you . . .DON'T MISS THE SPINE-TINGLING THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WRONG SISTER'Claire Douglas is a class act - she never, ever disappoints' LISA JEWELL'No one does tense suburbia like Claire Douglas. The New Neighbour is gripping and unsettling – I loved it!' CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘An utterly compelling plot, a protagonist you’re rooting for, and smartly plotted twists and reveals that come thick and fast’ LUCY CLARKE'Douglas is a master storyteller' JANICE HALLETT'Douglas is the queen of the unexpected twist' GILLIAN MCALLISTER'Claire Douglas is the Queen of Gripping Pageturners' CL TAYLOR---Lena overhears a conversation she shouldn’t have.She’s sure her new neighbours – the Morgans – are planning a crime.Her family say she’s mistaken.They are a lovely, friendly couple.She should forget it.Yet Lena can’t.And the more she investigates,the worse her suspicions.But Lena hasn’t counted on one thing.A secret from her own past. One the Morgans seem connected to.And which puts Lena in terrible danger . . .---Praise for Claire Douglas'Few people do psychological thrillers as claustrophobic and as creepy as Claire Douglas' Tim Weaver, bestselling author of No One Home'Thrillingly tense and twisty' B. A. Paris, bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors'Stunning . . . with a killer twist' Closer'Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train' Marie Claire'Twisty, exciting yet so very real' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Anything You Do SayThe Wrong Sister, Sunday Times bestseller, March 2024