Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 27 countries. In 2013, her latest novel, The Carrier, won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Two of Sophie’s crime novels, The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives, have been adapted for television and appeared on ITV1 under the series title Case Sensitive in 2011 and 2012. In 2004, Sophie won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her suspense story The Octopus Nest, which is now published in her first collection of short stories, The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets. Sophie has also published five collections of poetry. Her fifth, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the 2007 T S Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is forty-one and lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. She is currently working on a new challenge for the little grey cells of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective.
Series
Books
Pessimism for Beginners
2007
Something Untoward
Six Tales of Domestic Terror
2012
First of the Last Chances
2003
Pictures Or It Didn't Happen
2015
Keep Her Safe
2017
Gripless
1999
Hurting Distance
2007
Closed Casket
2016
Marrying the Ugly Millionaire
New and Collected Poems
2015
Kind of Cruel
2012
No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
2025
Hotels like Houses
1997
3 verhalen
2011
Afraid of the Christmas Lights
An Anthology of Crime Stories
2020
The Last Death of the Year
2025
Little Face
2006
The Carrier
2013
A Game for All the Family
2015
The Dwelling
2016
The Opposite of Murder
2024
The Monogram Murders
2014
Cordial and Corrosive
2000
The Wrong Mother
2008
Perfect Little Children
2020
How to Hold a Grudge
From Resentment to Contentment-The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life
2019
The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
2008
Selected Poems of Sophie Hannah
2006
Woman with a Secret
2014
Lasting Damage
2011
Misteriosa noche de paz. Un nuevo caso de Hércules Poirot
2024
Happiness, a Mystery
And 66 Attempts to Solve It
2020
The Visitors Book
And Other Ghost Stories
2015
The Octopus Nest
2014
The Other Half Lives
2009
A Dark Time
2018
The Sophie Hannah Collection Books 1-3
Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue
2013
The Next to Die
2016
The last death of the year
2025
Zamknięta trumna. Część 2
2018
The Mystery of Three Quarters
2018
The Couple at the Table
2022
Skald
The Short Story Collection
2018
The Hero and the Girl Next Door
1995
A Room Swept White
2010
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
2020
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
2023
The Orphan Choir
2013
The Tennis Church
2015
Dublura
2021
Leaving and Leaving You
1999
