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Sophie Hannah

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Bestselling crime writer Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com) Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast

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I cannot quite express how *massively* excited I am at the prospect of this amazing writing retreat in Greece in September! Want to come too? You can find out all info here:

www.naxoscreative.com/how-to-be-a-...

02.03.2026 22:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Paperback Lamberts-es have arrived!! And look so, so beautiful - especially when balanced on the furry hindquarters of a Plunk!! Publishing March 12!

02.03.2026 14:06 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Not long left to enter this comp!!

GIVEAWAY! The deadline is fast approaching to enter to win a DOZEN ace thrillers, pictured below.

Copy/paste this URL: bit.ly/thrillschills26

23.02.2026 15:50 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Sophie Hannah at First Floor, Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely

Cambridgeshire friends!! I’m doing this event at Toppings in Ely next Weds at 7 pm! Come along (link to book tickets below) and find out why I wrote The Opposite of Murder, & what links it to my first crime novel, Little Face, published 20 years ago…

www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/h...

22.02.2026 09:46 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Win 12 free books! All 12 of these tempting pageturners pictured below!

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19.02.2026 17:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done By Sophie Hannah: Review/Giveaway by Linda Kay HardieI finished reading Sophie Hannah’s No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done, and I still don’t know exactly how I feel. None of the characters are particularly likable, with the ...

Review and giveaway of "No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done" by Sophie Hannah kingsriverlife.com/02/14/no-one... @sophiehannah.bsky.social @readlandmark.bsky.social #mystery #booksky 💙📚

16.02.2026 16:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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So, yesterday I said that The Opposite of Murder was only 99p on Kobo.

I was wrong! *Today* is the day when that is true!

I’ve checked this time!! It’s definitely only 99 p on Kobo today:

www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

15.02.2026 14:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Thrilled to be on @allaboutthedame podcast talking about ‘No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done’, which features an Agatha-Christie-themed book club at war over whether or not a Mary Westmacott novel counts as an Agatha Christie (yes, really).
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01.02.2026 00:29 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Out today in the UK - hardback, ebook and audio!

Publishing in America in August.

29.01.2026 12:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So thrilled to discover today that ‘Lamberts’ is officially a national USA Today bestseller in America! Thank you so much to all who have bought, read and supported it!

28.01.2026 16:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s US publication day for ‘No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done’, so please look out for Champ Lambert (he’s in Houston, Texas right now, soon heading for Fort Lauderdale… but of course, like his brother Furbert, he is essentially everywhere).

20.01.2026 15:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The accommodation/beach&pool situation is going to be *even better* than I thought on this amazing writing course in Naxos that I’m teaching 20-26 Sept with brilliant publisher Jamie Hodder-Williams & amazing agent Elly James!

Come to Greece with us!!

naxoscreative.com/writersedit

17.01.2026 12:01 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Last Death of the Year By Sophie Hannah: Review/Giveaway by Lorie Lewis HamI have been a fan of Agatha Christie for a very long time, and Hercule Poirot is my favorite of her characters. Back when I originally heard that Sophie Hannah was going to be writin...

Review and giveaway of "The Last Death of the Year" the latest Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah kingsriverlife.com/01/10/the-la... @sophiehannah.bsky.social #mystery #AgathaChristie #booksky 💙📚

12.01.2026 16:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exciting news!! I’m going to be teaching/coaching on a retreat in Naxos, Greece, 20-26 September! My fellow tutors are legendary publisher Jamie Hodder-Williams and amazing agent Elly James! Come and hang out with us and write, have fun and swim etc!

www.naxoscreative.com/writers-edit

06.01.2026 11:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Thanks so much, Steve! Really pleased you liked it!

19.12.2025 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
book cover for no one would do what the lamberts have done by sophie hannah with yellow lettering over a blue background and a red border with an image of a red townhouse in the center with a dog next to it

book cover for no one would do what the lamberts have done by sophie hannah with yellow lettering over a blue background and a red border with an image of a red townhouse in the center with a dog next to it

NO ONE WOULD DO WHAT THE LAMBERTS HAVE DONE by @sophiehannah.bsky.social comes out 1/20/26 from @readlandmark.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #murder #twisty #dog #love #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 12/1!

26.11.2025 17:00 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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News!! You can now request my new Simon and Charlie thriller (out on 29 Jan in the UK) on NetGalley - assuming you haven’t forgotten, as I have, everything you need to remember about how to login into NetGalley!

24.11.2025 11:03 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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American friends! Perfect Little Children (aka Haven’t They Grown) is on sale on US Kindle - only $1.99!

Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily were 5 and 3 years old.

Today, they don’t look a day older.

Why haven’t they grown?

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16.11.2025 20:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Perfect Little Children: A Novel The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense.

#DEAL ALERT! Calling all one-clickers because PERFECT LITTLE CHILDREN @sophiehannah.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle for a limited time only!
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16.11.2025 19:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In 2017, I wrote a murder mystery musical featuring an appalling school that replaced words, in pupils’ reports, with coloured bands no one understood. Today, OFSTED…announces its new coloured bands system!

10.11.2025 17:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Friends! Next year it will 20 years since Little Face, my first Simon & Charlie thriller. Also, the latest S & C mystery, The Opposite of Murder, is publishing late Jan, so…if you’re a bookshop/library/event planner and might want an event late Jan/early Feb, message me!

05.11.2025 11:25 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Cheap tiny children!!!

By which I mean, my thriller Haven’t They Grown is currently only 99p on UK Kindle!!

Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were 5 and 3 years old.

Today, they look exactly the same. Why haven’t they grown?

www.amazon.co.uk/Havent-They-...

03.11.2025 16:59 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Thrilled to be appearing at the Bloody Barnes Crime Festival on Saturday 8 Feb next year!

03.11.2025 16:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PS - who already knows what their New Year’s Resolution is going to be for next year? Tell me if you want to, and I’ll share mine later today!

23.10.2025 07:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Published today! The Last Death of the Year, and my last book release of the year! Available from all good bookshops (and there’s no such thing as a bad one) and libraries!

Set on New Year’s Eve on a Greek Island!

A New Year’s Resolution game turns murderous…

23.10.2025 06:59 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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And yes, that is indeed the beautiful paperback cover of Lamberts - isn’t it ace?

14.10.2025 10:28 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Amazing bargain opportunity - a stonking 25% off Lamberts paperback at Waterstones if you preorder before 17 Oct!

www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

14.10.2025 10:27 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bound proofs are *in*!!

New Simon & Charlie - out in Jan, pre-orderable now.

Who wants a copy? I might do a competition soon!

21.09.2025 13:28 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

…to kill John, so Isabella would be available again but she leapt in front of bullet and died instead cos she adored John. And that’s why narrator hates John so much!

20.09.2025 08:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right, so…the narrator Rose & Yew Tree says in final para something like ‘I saw it all…’ re Isabella getting shot. My theory is: he literally saw it all. He was there, in same place… Why? I reckon he followed John and Isabella on their travels abroad, cos obsessed with her. He paid someone…

20.09.2025 08:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0