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* AmbiguousDisorder: Simon Waterhouse. He is incredibly uncomfortable with people crying, doesn't like to eat in front of people (he makes an exception for Charlie in ''The Other Half Lives''), tends to be an unusually good intuition in cases, often becomes uncomfortable or defensive on the subject of sex. Charlie herself describes him as 'weird, frigid and socially inept', but she still loves him. He does seem to slowly be growing out of some of his tics as the series progresses, so it's likely his incredibly stifling childhood was partly to blame.
** There's also Laurie in ''A Room Swept White'', and Tim in ''The Carrier'', although Tim's odd behavior is at least partially explaine via his AbusiveParents and DomesticAbuse from Francine.
** There's also Laurie in ''A Room Swept White'', and Tim in ''The Carrier'', although Tim's odd behavior is at least partially explaine via his AbusiveParents and DomesticAbuse from Francine.
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[[caption-width-right:200:Cover of the first novel]]
The Spilling series is a series of crime novels by Creator/SophieHannah. Two of the novels (''The Point of Rescue'' and ''The Other Half Lives'') formed the basis for the television series ''Case Sensitive''.
!!Novels in the series:
[[index]]
* ''Little Face'' (2006)
* ''Literature/{{Hurting Distance}}'' (2007)
* ''The Point of Rescue'' (2008)
* ''Literature/{{The Other Half Lives}}'' (2009) [[note]] Also published as "The Dead lie Down"[[/note]]
* ''A Room Swept White'' (2010)
* ''Lasting Damage'' (2011) [[note]] Also published as "The Other Woman's House"[[/note]]
* ''Literature/{{Kind of Cruel}}'' (2012)
* ''The Carrier'' (2013)
* ''Literature/TheTellingError'' (2014) [[note]] Also published as "Woman with a Secret"[[/note]]
* ''The Narrow Bed'' (2016)
[[/index]]
!!Contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: All over the place.
** [[spoiler: Proust]] is revealed to be one in ''The Carrier''.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Simon Waterhouse. He is incredibly uncomfortable with people crying, doesn't like to eat in front of people (he makes an exception for Charlie in ''The Other Half Lives''), tends to be an unusually good intuition in cases, often becomes uncomfortable or defensive on the subject of sex. Charlie herself describes him as 'weird, frigid and socially inept', but she still loves him. He does seem to slowly be growing out of some of his tics as the series progresses, so it's likely his incredibly stifling childhood was partly to blame.
** There's also Laurie in ''A Room Swept White'', and Tim in ''The Carrier'', although Tim's odd behavior is at least partially explaine via his AbusiveParents and DomesticAbuse from Francine.
* BadBoss: Giles Proust, known by his inferiors as The Snowman.
* BelligerentSexualTension: A lot between Charlie and Simon. [[spoiler: Even after they get married.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Happens occasionally to Simon, but Naomi from ''Hurting Distance'' and Gaby from ''The Carrier'' both go through this.
* ClingyJealousGirl: A downplayed example, but Charlie is very insecure in her relationship with Simon, particularly whenever Alice Fancourt is mentioned. She often asks him if he thinks other women are pretty (''The Telling Error'') or gets jealous if Simon pays special attention to female witnesses (such as Amber in ''Kind of Cruel''), even though she knows that Simon being Simon, he wouldn't notice anyway.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Very often, especially Aidan in ''The Other Half Lives'', but appears in ''Hurting Distance'', ''Kind of Cruel'' and ''The Carrier'' as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of characters, particularly Charlie. The Snowman also has a number of withering quips at his disposal.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Charlie hates being called Charlotte, and Connie from ''Lasting Damage'' refuses to go by her full first name, Catriona.
* DramaQueen: Olivia, Charlie's sister, which becomes a plot point in ''The Telling Error'' [[spoiler: as Simon realises that her secret relationship with Gibbs mirrors the secret relationship of Paula Riddiough and Damon Blundy, who use their affair as an escape from their peaceful but bland marriages.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: For Sam Kombothreka, it's "Stepford", coined by Sellars and Gibbs after they got annoyed by his polite persona.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Charlie and Olivia. Charlie even briefly cuts Olivia off after [[spoiler: Olivia begins an affair with Gibbs during Charlie and Simon's wedding in ''Lasting Damage'']], but they reconcile by the end ''Kind of Cruel''.
* GrumpyOldMan: Proust, very much so.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon. He's often described as overbearing and arrogant about his abilities, but he does genuinely care for Charlie and he usually pulls a BigDamnHeroes in his cases, notably in ''Hurting Distance'' and ''The Other Half Lives''.
* LoveMartyr: Both Naomi and Gaby have elements of this, but they grow out of it over the course of ''Hurting Distance'' and ''The Carrier'', respectively.
* KavorkaMan: Sellars is described as a fat lech, but it doesn't stop him from being married with a mistress on the side, and his inability not to flirt with any pretty woman he passes. Gibbs constantly mocks him for it.
* MamaBear: Amber Hewerdine from ''Kind of Cruel'', even though Dinah and Nonie aren't her biological children.
* TheNapoleon: Gibbs, although with some CharacterDevelopment over the series, he seems to be growing out of this somewhat.
* NiceGuy: Sam is the most consistent example in the series.
* OperationJealousy: One that has very far-reaching consequences for Charlie, when she briefly dates someone to make Simon jealous when she thinks he's in contact with Alice Fancourt from ''Little Face''.
* OppositesAttract: [[spoiler: Olivia and Gibbs.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sam and Simon.
* SilkHidingSteel: Sam Kombothekra is an unusual male example- he's very polite, helpful and dislikes being involved in confrontation, but he's noted to be an effective police officer and serves as ''Simon's'' TheLancer for a while.
* SirSwearsALot: Charlie and Gibbs probably take the cake, but Amber gets in on the act as well.
** Proust is an aversion. When he does swear, it's a PrecisionFStrike.
* StrawFeminist: Sondra Halliday, the radical feminist columnist in ''The Narrow Bed''. It's suggested that there is a sympathetic FreudianExcuse driving her beliefs and actions, and that once you trim away the self-righteousness and misandry she has a bit of a point at times. But nevertheless, she's pretty clearly presented as unhelpful, condescending, unnecessarily confrontational, hypocritical and ultimately blinkered, and that her narrow and dogmatic view of the situation presents harmful and potentially dangerous consequences. [[spoiler: She's also completely wrong about, among other things, the killer being a man.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Sellars and Gibbs, although as of ''Lasting Damage'', Gibbs begins to get his own subplots that revolve around [[spoiler: his affair with Liv.]]
* TitleDrop: Very often, especially in ''Kind of Cruel'' and ''The Carrier''.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Charlie and Olivia Zailer. One's a Police Sergant, the other is a journalist obsessed with fashion. There's also Dinah and Nonie from ''Kind of Cruel''.
* TookALevelInKindness: Gibbs becomes considerably less of a dick over the course of the books, which ironically seems to have been spurred on by cheating on his wife with [[spoiler: Olivia.]]
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Happens quite a few times in the books, especially Naomi and Robert in ''Hurting Distance'', Fliss and Laura in ''A Room Swept White'' and Gabby and Tim in ''The Carrier''.
* TheWonka: Simon is considered to very weird and antisocial by pretty much everyone, but the Spilling police won't fire him because he's just too damn good.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Simon; even though he used to have an infamously violent temper, Charlie notes he's never hit her, even when she deliberately presses his BerserkButton.
* {{Yandere}}: Pops up a couple of times in her novels, especially in ''Lasting Damage'' and ''The Other Half Lives''.
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[[caption-width-right:200:Cover of the first novel]]
The Spilling series is a series of crime novels by Creator/SophieHannah. Two of the novels (''The Point of Rescue'' and ''The Other Half Lives'') formed the basis for the television series ''Case Sensitive''.
!!Novels in the series:
[[index]]
* ''Little Face'' (2006)
* ''Literature/{{Hurting Distance}}'' (2007)
* ''The Point of Rescue'' (2008)
* ''Literature/{{The Other Half Lives}}'' (2009) [[note]] Also published as "The Dead lie Down"[[/note]]
* ''A Room Swept White'' (2010)
* ''Lasting Damage'' (2011) [[note]] Also published as "The Other Woman's House"[[/note]]
* ''Literature/{{Kind of Cruel}}'' (2012)
* ''The Carrier'' (2013)
* ''Literature/TheTellingError'' (2014) [[note]] Also published as "Woman with a Secret"[[/note]]
* ''The Narrow Bed'' (2016)
[[/index]]
!!Contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: All over the place.
** [[spoiler: Proust]] is revealed to be one in ''The Carrier''.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Simon Waterhouse. He is incredibly uncomfortable with people crying, doesn't like to eat in front of people (he makes an exception for Charlie in ''The Other Half Lives''), tends to be an unusually good intuition in cases, often becomes uncomfortable or defensive on the subject of sex. Charlie herself describes him as 'weird, frigid and socially inept', but she still loves him. He does seem to slowly be growing out of some of his tics as the series progresses, so it's likely his incredibly stifling childhood was partly to blame.
** There's also Laurie in ''A Room Swept White'', and Tim in ''The Carrier'', although Tim's odd behavior is at least partially explaine via his AbusiveParents and DomesticAbuse from Francine.
* BadBoss: Giles Proust, known by his inferiors as The Snowman.
* BelligerentSexualTension: A lot between Charlie and Simon. [[spoiler: Even after they get married.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Happens occasionally to Simon, but Naomi from ''Hurting Distance'' and Gaby from ''The Carrier'' both go through this.
* ClingyJealousGirl: A downplayed example, but Charlie is very insecure in her relationship with Simon, particularly whenever Alice Fancourt is mentioned. She often asks him if he thinks other women are pretty (''The Telling Error'') or gets jealous if Simon pays special attention to female witnesses (such as Amber in ''Kind of Cruel''), even though she knows that Simon being Simon, he wouldn't notice anyway.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Very often, especially Aidan in ''The Other Half Lives'', but appears in ''Hurting Distance'', ''Kind of Cruel'' and ''The Carrier'' as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of characters, particularly Charlie. The Snowman also has a number of withering quips at his disposal.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Charlie hates being called Charlotte, and Connie from ''Lasting Damage'' refuses to go by her full first name, Catriona.
* DramaQueen: Olivia, Charlie's sister, which becomes a plot point in ''The Telling Error'' [[spoiler: as Simon realises that her secret relationship with Gibbs mirrors the secret relationship of Paula Riddiough and Damon Blundy, who use their affair as an escape from their peaceful but bland marriages.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: For Sam Kombothreka, it's "Stepford", coined by Sellars and Gibbs after they got annoyed by his polite persona.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Charlie and Olivia. Charlie even briefly cuts Olivia off after [[spoiler: Olivia begins an affair with Gibbs during Charlie and Simon's wedding in ''Lasting Damage'']], but they reconcile by the end ''Kind of Cruel''.
* GrumpyOldMan: Proust, very much so.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon. He's often described as overbearing and arrogant about his abilities, but he does genuinely care for Charlie and he usually pulls a BigDamnHeroes in his cases, notably in ''Hurting Distance'' and ''The Other Half Lives''.
* LoveMartyr: Both Naomi and Gaby have elements of this, but they grow out of it over the course of ''Hurting Distance'' and ''The Carrier'', respectively.
* KavorkaMan: Sellars is described as a fat lech, but it doesn't stop him from being married with a mistress on the side, and his inability not to flirt with any pretty woman he passes. Gibbs constantly mocks him for it.
* MamaBear: Amber Hewerdine from ''Kind of Cruel'', even though Dinah and Nonie aren't her biological children.
* TheNapoleon: Gibbs, although with some CharacterDevelopment over the series, he seems to be growing out of this somewhat.
* NiceGuy: Sam is the most consistent example in the series.
* OperationJealousy: One that has very far-reaching consequences for Charlie, when she briefly dates someone to make Simon jealous when she thinks he's in contact with Alice Fancourt from ''Little Face''.
* OppositesAttract: [[spoiler: Olivia and Gibbs.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sam and Simon.
* SilkHidingSteel: Sam Kombothekra is an unusual male example- he's very polite, helpful and dislikes being involved in confrontation, but he's noted to be an effective police officer and serves as ''Simon's'' TheLancer for a while.
* SirSwearsALot: Charlie and Gibbs probably take the cake, but Amber gets in on the act as well.
** Proust is an aversion. When he does swear, it's a PrecisionFStrike.
* StrawFeminist: Sondra Halliday, the radical feminist columnist in ''The Narrow Bed''. It's suggested that there is a sympathetic FreudianExcuse driving her beliefs and actions, and that once you trim away the self-righteousness and misandry she has a bit of a point at times. But nevertheless, she's pretty clearly presented as unhelpful, condescending, unnecessarily confrontational, hypocritical and ultimately blinkered, and that her narrow and dogmatic view of the situation presents harmful and potentially dangerous consequences. [[spoiler: She's also completely wrong about, among other things, the killer being a man.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Sellars and Gibbs, although as of ''Lasting Damage'', Gibbs begins to get his own subplots that revolve around [[spoiler: his affair with Liv.]]
* TitleDrop: Very often, especially in ''Kind of Cruel'' and ''The Carrier''.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Charlie and Olivia Zailer. One's a Police Sergant, the other is a journalist obsessed with fashion. There's also Dinah and Nonie from ''Kind of Cruel''.
* TookALevelInKindness: Gibbs becomes considerably less of a dick over the course of the books, which ironically seems to have been spurred on by cheating on his wife with [[spoiler: Olivia.]]
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Happens quite a few times in the books, especially Naomi and Robert in ''Hurting Distance'', Fliss and Laura in ''A Room Swept White'' and Gabby and Tim in ''The Carrier''.
* TheWonka: Simon is considered to very weird and antisocial by pretty much everyone, but the Spilling police won't fire him because he's just too damn good.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Simon; even though he used to have an infamously violent temper, Charlie notes he's never hit her, even when she deliberately presses his BerserkButton.
* {{Yandere}}: Pops up a couple of times in her novels, especially in ''Lasting Damage'' and ''The Other Half Lives''.
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