Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah (1971) is an English author who has written prose and poetry as well as children’s books. Estonian viewers may be especially interested in the fact that the heirs of Agatha Christie have commissioned new Hercule Poirot novels from Hannah. Agatha Christie’ last Poirot story, Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case was published in 1975. Almost 40 years later, The Monogram Murders by Hannah followed; it is set in 1929 and has links to several original stories by Christie, while missing Poirot’s sidekick Arthur Hastings, who is replaced by the Scotland Yard inspector Edward Catchpool, the narrator of the book. Hannah has written three Poirot novels so far. However, Hannah does not stand out merely for continuing the work of Christie, she also writes crime novels in her own right and is a renowned poet. Sophie Hannah will talk to the crime fiction theoretician and crime writer Martin Edwards