Read an enticing extract from Sophie Hannah's latest Poirot novel, The Mystery of Three Quarters.
Sophie Hannah talks about the joy of Golden Age crime fiction storytelling, the literary Christie and the challenge of taking on the master of the ‘little grey cells’, Hercule Poirot, for the second time. Interview by Waterstones Online's Martha Greengrass.
Over the past 28 years, The William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award has firmly established itself as the benchmark for brilliant sports writing; its long- and shortlists filled, every year, with the most inspiring and passionate reads the genre has to offer. To celebrate this year's shortlisted contenders, Waterstones Online's Matt Gardiner has interviewed the writers of the books dubbed 'The Magnificent Seven'. In our third and final instalment, he interviews Diana Nyad, William Finnegan and Oliver Kay.
When The Monogram Murders arrived back in 2014, there was a collective sense of relief at Waterstones Towers. Not only had the ever-brilliant Sophie Hannah risen to the challenge of picking up where Agatha Christie left off, in many ways (and we know for some this is heresy itself) she had bettered it. Now Sophie Hannah returns with her follow-up outing for Hercule Poirot, the fiendishly brilliant Closed Casket.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Georges Simenon, author of the Maigret novels, but were too afraid to ask…
Ruth Ware, author of In a Dark Dark Wood, explores some of fiction's darker loves.
Part of the Halloween Spooktacular, our week of back-to-back ghoulishness, here is my list of less obvious horror choices to show there is more to the genre than first meets the eye.
Because sometimes the books that already exist aren't enough
One of the fathers of Nordic Noir shares with us ten of his favourite fictional detectives
Robin Stevens on why there’s nothing better than a detective novel and a nice cup of tea.
Hercule Poirot is back in an all-new mystery from the pen of Sophie Hannah.
As part of the HarperCollins/Waterstones Killer Crime Festival, HarperCollins have delved through their archives and found some lovely bits of crime fiction history. As if we could have a celebration of crime and never mention Agatha Christie..
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