Sophie Hannah, Author . Soho $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-468-6
British author Hannah (Hurting Distance
) weaves together two narrative voices to create this complex and occasionally forced thriller set in rural England. Excitable new mother Alice Fancourt calls the police, claiming her baby girl has been...
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Sophie Hannah, Author . Soho $25 (363p) ISBN 978-1-56947-521-8
In Hannah’s intense second thriller (after Little Face
), Det. Sgt. Charlie Zailer and her sidekick, Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse, pursue a serial rapist who preys on successful single career women and sells tickets to “live”...
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Sophie Hannah, Author . Penguin $15 (432p) ISBN 978-0-14-311630-1
Sally Thorning, part-time environment rescuer and full-time mother, struggles to maintain her sanity and juggle the overwhelming demands of work and home in this superior psychological mystery from British author Hannah (Little Face
). During a week
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Sophie Hannah, Author Penguin $15 (470p) ISBN 978-0-14-311749-0
Det. Sgt. Charlotte “Charlie” Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse face one of their strangest cases yet in this superb thriller from Hannah (The Wrong Mother
). Ruth Bussey, who suffered a violent attack years earlier, arrives at...
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Sophie Hannah. Penguin, $15 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-14-311994-4
Hannah focuses on the dangerous gray area between guilt and innocence in her provocative fifth mystery featuring Det. Sgt. Charlotte "Charlie" Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse of the Culver Valley police (after The Dead Lie Down). When TV...
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Sophie Hannah. Penguin, $15 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-14-312151-0
In Hannah’s somewhat muddled sixth mystery featuring Det. Sgt. Charlotte “Charlie” Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse (after 2011’s Cradle in the Grave), Connie Bowskill spots a woman lying in a pool of blood while Connie’s taking a virtual...
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Sophie Hannah. Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-78585-8
Hannah’s addictive seventh psychological thriller featuring husband-and-wife Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse and Det. Sgt. Charlie Zailer (after 2012’s The Other Woman’s House) explores the differences between feelings and memories. Insomniac Amber...
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Sophie Hannah. Putnam, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-670-78586-5
A labyrinthine plot and thoroughly unlikable characters hamper Hannah’s eighth Sgt. Charlie Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse mystery (after 2013’s Kind of Cruel). Since Charlie is no longer a member of CID, due to a disastrous previous...
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-238826-1
The murder of outspoken newspaper columnist Damon Blundy jump-starts Hannah’s convoluted ninth mystery featuring married British cops Simon Waterhouse and Charlotte “Charlie” Zailer (after The Carrier). Nicki Clements, a mother of two and a less-than
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-238829-2
Former TV producer Justine Merrison, the narrator of this confusing standalone from Hannah (Woman with a Secret), leaves London for Devon, where she vows that doing nothing will be her new occupation. Justine’s opera singer husband, Alex, and their...
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Sophie Hannah, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-256176-3
Hannah’s second estate-sanctioned addition to Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot finds the brilliant, amusingly self-centered Belgian sleuth in 1929, attending a house party from hell. Neither he nor Scotland Yard Insp. Edward Catchpool, the novel’s...
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-062297-21-1
Hannah (The Orphan Choir) does a superb job of channeling Agatha Christie in this wholly successful pastiche authorized by the Christie estate. One evening in February 1929, Hercule Poirot is dining alone at a London coffee shop when a woman arrives
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-245882-7
Set in October 1929, bestseller Hannah’s captivating sequel to 2014’s The Monogram Murders finds Hercule Poirot and Scotland Yard’s Insp. Edward Catchpool visiting Lady Athelinda Playford’s mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, in the Irish Free State.
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-238832-2
In this unnecessarily complex standalone from bestseller Hannah (A Game for All the Family), Englishwoman Cara Burrows, who’s frustrated with her family, leaves her husband and two children behind in the U.K. and flies to Phoenix, Ariz., where she...
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-279234-1
Bestseller Hannah’s third Hercule Poirot pastiche (after 2016’s Closed Casket) offers Agatha Christie fans another ingeniously deceptive puzzle. The premise is especially clever—someone, posing as Poirot, has sent letters to four people accusing...
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-238835-3
In this underwhelming standalone from bestseller Hannah (The Mystery of Three Quarters and two other Hercule Poirot pastiches), a team of British Major Crimes officers, who spend more time sniping at each other than investigating, search for serial...
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-297820-2
Chance takes Cambridge, England, massage therapist Beth Leeson, the narrator of this wildly off-target domestic thriller from bestseller Hannah (The Next to Die), to the posh community where Flora Braid, her former bestie, and family relocated 12...
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-279237-2
Bestseller Hannah displays her superior ability to devise mind-blowing setups in her fourth authorized continuation of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series (after 2018’s The Mystery of Three Quarters). In 1931, Poirot agrees to come to Kingfisher
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-325770-2
In bestseller Hannah’s subpar 11th Spilling CID procedural (after 2019’s The Next to Die), it’s been six months since Jane Brinkwood, only daughter of Lord Brinkwood, was fatally stabbed at her father’s Tevendon Estate Resort, a British couples-only
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-0-6299163-8
Hannah’s stellar fifth whodunit featuring Agatha Christie’s iconic sleuth (after 2020’s The Killings at Kingfisher Hall) extends her reign as a master of mystery pastiche. In early December 1931, Poirot is preparing for a quiet Christmas alone when...
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