The Couple at the Table
The impossible to solve murder mystery
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3.6 • 16 Ratings
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- £9.99
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'Completely ingenious, entirely satisfying - a delight from start to finish' ALEX MICHAELIDES
'BY FAR Sophie Hannah's best one yet. Relatable, funny, high concept and so satisfying I watched in awe as the pieces fell into place' GILLIAN McALLISTER
'You'll love this brain-melting thriller!' FABULOUS
'A wise and witty portrait of modern marriage and murder' THE TIMES
'One of the best crime writers current working' THE SCOTSMAN
SIX COUPLES. ONE LUXURY RESORT. AND THE PERFECT MURDER . . .
You're on your honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort.
You receive a note warning you to 'Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours'. At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables is any nearer or further away than any of the others. It's as if someone has set the scene in order to make the warning note meaningless - but why would anyone do that?
You have no idea.
You also don't know that you're about to be murdered, or that once you're dead, all the evidence will suggest that no one there that night could possibly have committed the crime.
So who might be trying to warn you? And who might be about to commit the perfect murder?
SOPHIE HANNAH IS THE QUEEN OF THE UNGUESSABLE MYSTERY!
'Complex and satisfying outing' CRIME TIME
'A fabulously twisty and entertaining read!' My Weekly
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
One of the many strings to prolific crime writer Sophie Hannah’s bow is her role as the Agatha Christie estate’s anointed author of the official Hercule Poirot continuation mysteries. Christie’s DNA can certainly be detected in this knotty thriller, which is a fiendishly clever 21st-century update of a country house whodunnit. Hannah’s popular returning detective duo DC Simon Waterhouse and DS Charlie Zailer are among the half-dozen pairs of minibreakers at a swanky couples-only countryside resort. However, their well-earned luxury weekend is cut short by threatening notes and a seemingly impossible fatal stabbing. All the guests have a motive. They all have a rock-solid alibi too. In a tangled web of infidelity, inheritance and betrayal, suspicion falls on each in turn. Both a tense, twisting puzzler and a nuanced portrait of modern marriage with echoes of HBO drama The White Lotus.
