Closed Casket

Sparkling second outing for Hannah's reimagined Poirot. The setting (posh Irish country house), the characters (country lawyers, creepy male secretary, stroppy flapper, etc) and the period vocabulary are all spot on, but it's the utter fiendish unpredictability of the plot that makes Sophie the new Agatha Sunday Times An ingenious solution to the mystery of Closed Casket represents another satisfying addition to the Agatha Christie canon Irish Times Top-class entertainment Woman & Home Closed Casket is deviously plotted, deeply satisfying and does the grande dame of crime proud Good Housekeeping A brand new (and fiendishly puzzling) case for Hercule Poirot seriously, what could be more blissful? Saga Magazine This mystery is enormously compulsive keep em coming! 5 stars Heat Christies boots as a crime writer are hard to fill, but Hannah achieves it quietly and intelligently with Poirot-sized steps once again in Closed Casket The whole book will not only delight Agatha Christie devotees but anyone who loves a good, well written murder mystery Devon Life A brand new (and fiendishly puzzling) case for Hercule Poirot seriously, what could be more blissful? Gorgeous SAGA This cunningly executed Christie tribute taps into the current vogue for Golden Age crime with its vintage plot, numerous possible motives and neatly contained setting METRO 'a literary marriage made in heaven! THE TIMES a novel fizzing with ideas and spikey dialogue SUNDAY EXPRESS an absolute gem for murder mystery fans CLOSER

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her crime novels have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. 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. Sophies novels The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie is also a bestselling poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE and A-level throughout the UK. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, two children and dog. Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.