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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

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"A cause for celebration. The Couple at the Table has everything you want in a mystery--a cryptic threat, a murder, a closed circle of suspects and an unguessable solution. Completely ingenious, entirely satisfying--a delight from start to finish." --Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author

"A wise and witty portrait of modern marriage and murder."--Times (UK) on The Couple at the Table

"Hannah's plots are like intricate jigsaw puzzles whose pieces you cannot believe will fit together, until you see the completed picture... The fun in reading The Next to Die...isn't in learning whodunit, but in following the labyrinthine byways of its author's peculiar worldview and the twisted motives of her characters." --New York Times

"No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah."--Liane Moriarty #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Sophie Hannah... has clearly mastered the psychological methodology [of] Gillian Flynn or Tana French. Her unreliable narrator commands our attention and even our sympathy." --NPR --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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SOPHIE HANNAH is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous psychological thrillers, which have been published in 51 countries and adapted for television, as well as The Monogram Murders, the first Hercule Poirot novel authorized by the estate of Agatha Christie, and its sequels Closed Casket, The Mystery of Three Quarters, and The Killings at Kingfisher Hill. Sophie is also the author of a self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge, and hosts the podcast of the same name. She lives in Cambridge, UK.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08ZJ2FQX1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder & Stoughton (27 January 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3845 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1529352827

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Hello! Welcome to my Amazon Author Page, and thank you for your interest in me and my books. Below you will find my official biog and all my online links so that you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You'll also find a link to my Dream Author Coaching Programme for writers, which launched in September 2019.

Oh, and you can see some cute photos of my amazing dog Brewster on this page too! He often leaps onto my laptop while I'm writing and deletes entire paragraphs by accident - so you could say he's a regular contributor to my literary efforts!

If you would like to receive my monthly newsletter (in which I give away freebies and share scandal, gossip and intrigue) you can sign up at the bottom of the home page of my website, sophiehannah.com. And if you want to contact me directly (to say you've loved a book of mine, or even to complain vociferously about one of my books), email sophie@sophiehannah.com. I'm always delighted to hear from my readers!

Sophie xx

My Official Biography is as follows:

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer whose books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Her crime novels have been translated into 49 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the 2013 UK National Book Awards. In 2014 and 2016, Sophie published The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket, the first new Hercule Poirot mysteries since Agatha Christie's death, both of which were national and international bestsellers. She went on to publish a third, The Mystery of Three Quarters in 2018 which was an instant bestseller, and her fourth Poirot novel, The Killings at Kingfisher Hill will be published in August 2020. Sophie helped to create a Master’s Degree in Crime and Thriller Writing at the University of Cambridge, for which she is the main teacher and Course Director. She is also the founder of the Dream Author Coaching Programme for writers which launched in September 2019.

Sophie is also an award-winning, bestselling poet, and her poetry is studied at GCSE level across the UK. She has co-written two murder mystery musicals with composer Annette Armitage: The Mystery of Mr. E and Work Experience. She has written a self-help book called How To Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment - The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life, and hosts the How to Hold a Grudge podcast.

Sophie lives with her husband, children and dog in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

And I can be found online here:

Website: www.sophiehannah.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sophiehannahauthor/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sophiehannahwriter/

Twitter: www.twitter.com/sophiehannahCB1

http://dreamauthorcoaching.com

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-hold-a-grudge/id1439465411

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Very entertaining

Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2022

I do love a locked room mystery and Sophie Hannah books so I was looking forward to getting stuck into this one. It was a little crazy onwards to the end but definitely entertaining.

Jane is on her honeymoon at an exclusive resort for couples when she starts to get notes left for her. she is told “ beware of the couple at the next table” which isn’t helpful as all the tables are the same distance apart. And then she is murdered. It had to be someone on the island, one of the couples. All the staff had left for the night. But who and why? As we read, we learn more about all these characters, none of whom are particularly likeable or trustworthy. Any of them might have done it.

I didn’t realise going into this that it was book 11 of a series but it really did not matter. It is the police characters of Simon and Charlie that were recurring but this can easily be read as a stand alone.

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benign narrative, subtle clues and red herrings

Reviewed in Australia on 11 March 2022

Recently published The Couple at the Table by Sophie Hannah is a standalone murder mystery. Six couples are at a holiday resort when one couple gets a disturbing warning whilst eating their dinner. Unaware which of the couples is out to harm them, one of them is then murdered and the police fail to solve the case. Set in the present day, with flashbacks to happenings leading to the murder, this seemingly impossible mystery of who committed the act is slowly played out. A typical classical murder tale set in the mundane life of its characters, each with their secret, ordinary lives and unsolvable mystery whodunnit. With its almost benign narrative and subtle clues and red herrings, this is a brilliant tale of murder and mayhem with a five-star rating. It is a typical cosy English crime mystery but with Christie-esque chic.

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The Cookster

Intelligently written ... but laborious.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2022

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Rating: 2.2/5

Although it is not apparent from the accompanying blurb, this novel is actually part of a series, rather than being a standalone. However, although you may miss out slightly by not having the extra dimension of background knowledge of some of the characters, it is not so significant that you couldn't read this in isolation. I have read a number of books by Sophie Hannah over the years. Some I have thoroughly enjoyed, while others have felt more like a chore. Sadly, "The Couple at the Table" falls into the latter category. As you would expect from this author, it is intelligently written, but I also found it to be a laborious experience.

If you are able to persevere and get as far as the eventual unravelling of the mystery, the solution actually makes for entertaining reading and has been fairly cleverly put together. Though, that said, there are some elements of the big reveal that are more than a little tenuous and require credulity to be stretched for the reader to be able to accept the manner in which the detective arrived at his deduction.

However, I already had significant misgivings about "The Couple at the Table" well before this end point. The story is presented in a style that is very much akin to murder mysteries from the "golden age" days of yore, but with a contemporary setting - and that combination really doesn't work convincingly. You might just about get away with it in a lightweight cosy mystery, but this doesn't fit into that category either. There are other aspects that are reminiscent of a cosy mystery, particularly when the author seeks to inject some comedic elements into the narrative. These sections may well have allowed the author to express her clever wit, but it seemed as though she couldn't make up her mind whether this should be a cosy mystery or something with a little more gravitas. I am not convinced that meandering around in the middle ground was effective. But, above all of the aforementioned points, the biggest letdown for me was that it was so tedious for so long. I found myself really not caring who killed the victim, let alone what the motivation for doing so might have been - and that isn't a good sensation to have when you are reading a murder mystery!

I dare say I will be back to read Sophie Hannah again in the future, because when she gets it right, she produces very good reading matter - but this one was certainly below par.

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Mr. S. H. Davies

A disappointing book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2022

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I had preordered this book and was very much looking forward to it, having read other books by the same talented author. However I’m sorry to report that I found this one to be disappointing.
I just didn’t connect to any of the characters ( none of which I found likeable ) and found the story slow to develop ( I think I was two thirds through it before the plot started to really move on ). I also felt some of the facts in the final explanation were too implausible to have taken place in the time outlined ( I don’t want to specify exactly which, as I don’t want to give any spoilers ).
So in the end I did not engage or believe in the story told. Another reader may feel differently and I know the author is good but this one I’m sorry to say just wasn’t for me.

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A whiff of Agatha Christie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2022

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I quite enjoyed this, although more like an Agatha Christie than a Sophie Hannah. The clues were there if you looked hard enough, which was good. But some of the characterisation and goings on were, frankly, ludicrous, and this marred the story. Some things were laboured too much. Also, a Will is a public document and there is no reason why someone shouldn't disclose the contents to someone else.

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Mrs. V. E. Rowe

The woman's a genius!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2022

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Wonderful book and one of the best she has written in this series. More more and more of Simon and Charlie et all PLEASE.

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Christina

Totally unengaging, bland and dull. Disappointing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2022

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Full disclosure. I haven't finished this book. After 25% I gave up. I found it all so bland, so uninteresting and totally unengaging. Colourless characters I could not care about. I didn't even read the end. Very disappointing.

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