The Last Death of the Year and The Return of Moriarty: Sophie Hannah and Jack Anderson with Marco Rinaldi

Crime & Thriller, Classic Crime, Historical Fiction

Author and podcaster Marco Rinaldi chairs a discussion between two authors, each picking up the baton from crime writing royalty.

Sophie Hannah’s The Last Death of the Year is her latest Hercule Poirot mystery, following up the bestselling Silent Night. Hannah drops Agatha Christie’s mustachioed Belgian sleuth on the Greek island of Lamperos on New Year’s Eve, 1932. As the clock ticks towards the bells and a festive guessing game takes a sinister turn, can Poirot stop a murderer who is determined to strike before midnight?

Meanwhile, Jack Anderson’s The Return of Moriarty reinvents Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic villain for a whole new generation of readers. James Moriarty is severely wounded, his organisation has been dismantled, and Sherlock Holmes is dead. Fleeing to recover, desperate to rebuild his empire, Moriarty must assume a new identity. This is the start of a fiendishly inventive and enjoyable new historical mystery series.