Sophie Hannah

The unnervingly good sixth psychological thriller from bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah, not to be missed for readers of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Jaw-droppingly assured' Daily Express 'A first-class whodunnit' Scotsman Don't go into the other woman's house . . . It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago. Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room . . .

Culver Valley Crime Book 6, from the bestselling author of Haven’t They Grown

Lasting Damage

Gemma McCarthy

You're being ridiculous. You're not in a situation', apart from the one you've brewed in your imagination. Ingredients: coincidence and paranoia 

You could be asleep now, you lunatic. Instead, you're sitting hunched over a computer in the dark, feeling inferior to Cliff Richard. Get a grip.

This kitchen I’m looming at can’t be Kit’s, not with that island in it.

Of course it’s not Kit’s. Kit’s kitchen is downstairs - it also  happens to be your kitchen.

It’s not as if you’ve seen his jacket draped over the banister, his stripy scarf over the back of a chair

How can I know him well enough to read his thoughts, and, at the same time fear that I don’t know him at all?

Connie got a bit carried away. Did he say that deliberately, to plant the idea in Sam K's mind that I'm an easily-carried-away sort of person?

As far as I'm concerned, I only have one home, and that's Melrose Cottage.' He glances at me as he says this. Does he expect a round of applause?

He's covering for me. Does he expect me to be grateful for his support? It's his fault that I've had to make up a story. I'm not the liar here.

He believes new buildings should be wholeheartedly contemporary, inside and out. Therefore 11 Bentley Grove is nothing to do with him.

im so intrigued - what has the house got to do with kit 

Would he? Mightn't he have assumed the opposite - that something must be going on, something involving 11 Bentley Grove and you?' I wasn't willing to take the risk; perhaps Kit wasn’t either.

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