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Death At The White Hart

Death At The White Hart

Summary

From the multi-award winning creator of BROADCHURCH and showrunner of DOCTOR WHO, get ready for the most exciting crime fiction debut of 2025...


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A picture-perfect village.


A harrowing crime scene.


A web of secrets.


A victim who knew all of them.


Introducing Detective Nicola Bridge, in the unputdownable debut novel from one of the Britain’s most acclaimed storytellers.

Reviews

  • With a confounding crime and a stellar cast of characters, Death at the White Hart is everything I love in a crime novel, with a community set-up that I hope means this will become a much-loved series
    Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things

About the author

Chris Chibnall

Chris Chibnall is a BAFTA, Royal Television Society, Broadcasting Press Guild and Peabody award-winning screenwriter, executive producer, and playwright whose work has been seen, translated and remade all around the world. He is the recipient of the prestigious FIPA Prix D’Honneur, and honorary doctorates from Edge Hill University and Sheffield Hallam University. His television work includes Broadchurch – remade as Gracepoint in the US and Malaterra in France – The Great Train Robbery, Doctor Who, Torchwood and Life on Mars. Death at the White Hart will publish in hardback, ebook and audiobook in March 2025.
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