The Telling Error

Newspaper columnist Damon Blundy is found murdered at his home on Elmhirst Road in Spilling.

Married mother-of-two Nicki Clements is on her way to her son’s school to drop off his sports kit when she spots a familiar face on Elmhirst Road — a policeman.

Desperate to avoid him, she does a U-turn to take a different route and unwittingly becomes a person of interest in the Blundy murder investigation.

Nicki is anxious to prove her innocence, but that will mean having to give up a fiercely-guarded secret which could ruin her life.

Book nine of Sophie Hannah’s Culver Valley crime series is, like her previous works, a page-turning psychological thriller with a fiendishly complicated plot. Detectives Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse are at the centre of the investigation, but their relationship appears more strained than usual.

Sophie Hannah takes us to a dark world of grotesque murders, psychological abuse, furtive cyber-sex adventures and pathological liars where, as usual, nothing is as it appears to be.