Sophie Hannah

Vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más famoso y brillante de la historia de la novela negra, que ha conquistado a más de 2 billones de lectores.Londres, 1929. Hércules Poirot está cenando en el cafe Pleasant cuando una mujer irrumpe en el local y le confia que alguien esta a punto de matarla. Le ruega que no investigue, pues con su muerte, dice, se habra hecho justicia.Unas horas mas tarde, tres personas son asesinadas en un elegante hotel londinense. Poirot no puede evitar involucrarse en el caso, pero, mientras el se esfuerza en ordenar todas las piezas, el asesino se prepara para volver a matar.Desde la publicacion de su primera obra en 1920, Agatha Christie escribio treinta y tres novelas, dos obras de teatro y mas de cincuenta historias breves con el personaje de Hercules Poirot. Ahora, por primera vez, los albaceas de su legado han aprobado la creacion una nueva novela protagonizada por el personaje mas querido de la Dama del Crimen.En manos de Sophie Hannah, autora de varios bestsellers internacionales, Poirot se sumerge en un misterio ambientado en el Londres de los años 20, un puzle diabolicamente inteligente que solo puede ser resuelto por el talento sin par del gran detective belga y su materia gris.La idea de Sophie para la trama era tan adictiva y su pasion por el trabajo de mi abuela tan fuerte que tuvimos la certeza de que habia llegado el momento de escribir una nueva Christie. Mathew Prichard, director de Agatha Christie Limited y nieto de Agatha Christie.L A NOVELISTA MAS VENDIDA DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS.EL DETECTIVE MAS FAMOSO DEL MUNDO.EL ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO DEL AÑO.

En el centenario de su creación, vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más famoso y brillante de la historia de la novela negra, que ha conquistado a más de 2 billones de lectores. Irlanda, 1929. Lady

Stuck in a traffic jam, Nicki Clements sees a face she hoped never to see again. It''s definitely him, the same police officer, stopping each car on Elmhirst Road. Keen to avoid him, Nicki does a U-turn and makes a panicky escape.Or so she thinks. The next day, Nicki is pulled in for questioning in connection with the murder of Damon Blundy, controversial newspaper columnist and resident of Elmhirst Road.Nicki can''t answer any of the questions detectives fire at her. She has no idea why the killer used a knife in such a peculiar way, or why ''HE IS NO LESS DEAD'' was painted on Blundy''s study wall. And she can''t explain why she avoided Elmhirst Road that day without revealing the secret that could ruin her life.Because although Nicki is not guilty of murder, she is far from innocent . . .

Amber Hewerdine findet keine Ruhe mehr. Seitdem ihre beste Freundin bei einem Wohnungsbrand ums Leben kam und sie ihre beiden Tochter bei sich aufnahm, qualt sie Nacht fur Nacht die Schlaflosigkeit. Ein Besuch bei einer Hypnosetherapeutin lasst nur einen Schluss zu: Amber kennt den Killer. Und wei, dass er wieder zuschlagen wird. Doch offenbar ist die Wahrheit so grauenhaft, dass sie sie noch nicht einmal vor sich selbst zugeben kann -

The Poetry of Sex - a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology by acclaimed poet Sophie Hannah. We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border to the edge of Mexico...Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but - implicit, explicit, nuanced or starkly frank - sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets. In fact a great deal of erotic poetry rejects the distinction. It's hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to conclusion and consequence. And little has changed over the centuries, as Sophie Hannah's anthology vividly demonstrates, from Catullus pleading with Lesbos to Walt Whitman singing the body electric. Moods and attitudes may vary but the drive persists as does the desire to write about it. Sophie Hannah's selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement. The result is a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology. From Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, this book is essential reading for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere. It is a perfect counterpart to the The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry and a wonderful companion to Sophie Hannah's own Selected Poems. "Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart". (Guardian). "A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her own life, she is often very funny". (The Oldie). "The brightest young star in British poetry". (Independent). Sophie Hannah has published five collections of poetry. Her fifth Pessimism for Beginners was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award in 2007. Her Selected Poems is published by Penguin (revised edition, 2013). She is also the writer of bestselling psychological crime fiction, most recently The Carrier. Her novels have been translated into 24 languages. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Cambridge with her husband and children, and is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College.

Elle s'est absentée pour deux heures seulement. David, son mari, était censé surveiller leur petite fille âgée de deux semaines. Mais quand Alice Fancourt entre dans la chambre du bébé, le cauchemar commence. Car, Alice en est certaine, le nourrisson qui dort dans ce berceau n'est pas sa petite fille. C'est un bébé inconnu. Son mari refuse de la croire et devient de plus en plus agressif. Il jure qu'elle est folle ou qu'elle ment. Alice doit à tout prix convaincre la police qu'elle dit vrai. Sinon, il sera trop tard.

Naomi sabe como descrever em detalhes os atos de um psicopata. Ela só precisa se valer de seu passado traumático.Toda semana, Naomi Jenkins se dirige às escondidas para um hotel barato onde se encont

Naomi Jenkins diseña relojes de sol que suele adornar con una leyenda en latín. Es soltera, vive con una amiga y, desde hace tres años, conserva un secreto que no piensa revelar a nadie. Ni siquiera a Robert, su amante, un camionero que está aburrido de su matrimonio y con el que se encuentra todos los jueves, a la misma hora, en el mismo motel de siempre. Pero un día Robert no acude a la cita y Naomi decide ir a buscarlo a casa de él. A pesar de que el camión está allí, aparcado en la calle, ella intuye que algo terrible ha sucedido. Sobre todo cuando la esposa de su amante la descubre merodeando por el jardín y le asegura que a las dos, a partir de ahora, estarán mucho mejor sin él.

The scenario here darkens when one of the three women, Helen Yardley, is found dead at her home. On the body is a card with the same layout of numbers arranged in four rows of four that Fliss Benson had been sent. She is soon faced with both intimidating moral dilemmas and physical danger. Par for the course, in fact, for a Sophie Hannah heroine...

Hercule Poirot et l''inspecteur Catchpool se demandent bien pourquoi ils ont été invités à la réception organisée par Athelina Playford, qu’ils n’ont jamais rencontrée. Mais quand au cours de la soir

Tras el éxito deLos crímenes del monogramavuelve Sophie Hannah, la reina del crimen psicológico, con una novela escalofriante, un rompecabezas literario que desbloqueará el lado más oscuro de la mente del lector.Justine creia conocerse bien, hasta que una llamada anonima hace que se de cuenta de que quien esta detras del telefono parece conocerla mucho mejor.Cuando revisa los deberes que ha realizado su hija Ellen, Justine se encuentra leyendo una historia escalofriante articulada en torno a una serie de asesinatos siniestros cometidos en la nueva casa a la que la familia se acaba de trasladar.¿Puede ser la propia Ellen quien haya cometido esa atrocidad?¿Puede ser culpable de esos asesinatos, tal y como ella parece asegurar en su redaccion escolar?¿Como si no iba a inventar algo tan grotesco, situarlo en la propia casa y con su familia como protagonista?Justine entra en panico cuando descubre que Ellen tambien ha inventado tener un mejor amigo en la escuelaun chico al que los profesores dicen no conocer.A partir de entonces, Justine empezara a recibir una serie de llamadas anonimas que la haran temer por la seguridad de su familia y entrara en un siniestro juego de pistas que la llevaran a descubrir quien esta realmente al otro lado de la linea.

What if having a best friend was the most dangerous thing you could do?A killer that the police are calling ''Billy Dead Mates'' is murdering pairs of best friends, one by one.Before they die, each victim is given a small white book...For months, detectives have failed to catch Billy, or work out what the white books mean. And then a woman, scared by what she''s seen on the news, comes forward.Stand-up comedian Kim Tribbeck has one of Billy''s peculiar little books. A stranger gave it to her at a gig she did a year ago. Was he Billy, and does he want to kill her? Kim has no friends and trusts no one, so how - and why - could she possibly be Billy Dead Mates'' next target?This is the next chilling novel from the queen of psychological crime - a literary puzzle.

He''s not your son. It''s not up to you to save him. But you have to try.After escaping London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful home in Devon.But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen starts to withdraw when her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. Justine begs the head teacher to reconsider, only to be told that nobody''s been expelled - there is, and was, no George.Then the anonymous calls start: a stranger, making threats that suggest she and Justine share a traumatic past and a guilty secret - yet Justine doesn''t recognise her voice. When the caller starts to talk about three graves - two big and one small, to fit a child - Justine fears for her family''s safety.If the police can''t help, she''ll have to eliminate the danger herself, but first she must work out who she''s supposed to be...

What if having a best friend was the most dangerous thing you could do?A killer that the police are calling ''Billy Dead Mates'' is murdering pairs of best friends, one by one.Before they die, each victim is given a small white book...For months, detectives have failed to catch Billy, or work out what the white books mean. And then a woman, scared by what she''s seen on the news, comes forward.Stand-up comedian Kim Tribbeck has one of Billy''s peculiar little books. A stranger gave it to her at a gig she did a year ago. Was he Billy, and does he want to kill her? Kim has no friends and trusts no one, so how - and why - could she possibly be Billy Dead Mates'' next target?

In this small but perfectly formed collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror. Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend's inner-city home? And whose spidery handwriting is it that fills the pages? Who is the strangely courteous boy still lingering at a child's tenth birthday party when all the parents have gathered their children and left? And why does the presence of a perfectly ordinary woman in a post office queue leave another customer pallid and sweating with fear? Beware what you open this Christmas!

What I intend to say to you will come as a shockOn the occasion of a grand party at her Irish mansion, Lady Athelinda Playfordone of the worlds most beloved childrens authorssprings a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will: she is cutting off her two children without a penny . . . and leaving her vast fortune to an invalid with weeks to live.Among Lady Playfords visitors are two strangers: the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been inviteduntil Poirot begins to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murder...Addictive and ferociously clever, Closed Casket is a triumph from the author whose work is as tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie.

Hércules Poirot regresa con otro misterioso y brillante asesinato que sólo puede ser resuelto por el detective Belgian y sus "pequeñas células grises"

Tras el éxito de Los crímenes del monograma, vuelve Sophie Hannah, quien, en la línea de Patricia Highsmith y Ruth Rendell, explora la delicada línea que separa la bondad de la maldad, convirtiendo el espacio domestico en el territorio del miedo.Justine creia conocerse bien, hasta que una llamada anonima hace que se de cuenta de que quien esta detras del telefono parece conocerla mucho mejor.Cuando revisa los deberes que ha realizado su hija Ellen, Justine se encuentra leyendo una historia escalofriante articulada en torno a una serie de asesinatos siniestros cometidos en la nueva casa a la que la familia se acaba de trasladar.¿Puede ser la propia Ellen quien haya cometido esa atrocidad?¿Puede ser culpable de esos asesinatos, tal y como ella parece asegurar en su redaccion escolar?¿Como si no iba a inventar algo tan grotesco, situarlo en la propia casa y con su familia como protagonista?Justine entra en panico cuando descubre que Ellen tambien ha inventado tener un mejor amigo en la escuela -un chico al que los profesores dicen no conocer-.

One of the great unmissables of this genre - intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination' - The Times Justine thought she knew who she was, until an anonymous caller seemed to know better...After escaping London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful home in Devon. But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen starts to withdraw when her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. Justine begs the head teacher to reconsider, only to be told that nobody's been expelled - there is, and was, no George. Then the anonymous calls start: a stranger, making threats that suggest she and Justine share a traumatic past and a guilty secret - yet Justine doesn't recognise her voice. When the caller starts to talk about three graves - two big and one small, to fit a child - Justine fears for her family's safety. If the police can't help, she'll have to eliminate the danger herself, but first she must work out who she's supposed to be...