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Spilling CID #10.4
The Dwelling
The Dwelling: A Charlie Zailer Christmas Story, first appeared in The Spectator. Also available at author's own website: https://sophiehannah.com/the-dwelling...
- GenresMystery
Unknown Binding
First published December 8, 2016
About the author
Sophie Hannah
114 books4,630 followersSophie 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.
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.
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February 18, 2024
A short story involving Charlie from the Spilling CID series.
Charlie wants to avoid Christmas with her sister so she goes to work. A woman approaches and asks to be followed by the police so that she has an alibi for the murder of a teacher which will happen. The teacher has given an award to his son and this will likely result in his murder by one of four people. One of the possible suspects is the woman herself.
After the woman leaves, Charlie is off to investigate.
I have enjoyed the Spilling CID series and this is a quick, enjoyable entry to that series.
Charlie wants to avoid Christmas with her sister so she goes to work. A woman approaches and asks to be followed by the police so that she has an alibi for the murder of a teacher which will happen. The teacher has given an award to his son and this will likely result in his murder by one of four people. One of the possible suspects is the woman herself.
After the woman leaves, Charlie is off to investigate.
I have enjoyed the Spilling CID series and this is a quick, enjoyable entry to that series.
May 20, 2020
Wow, flying through these short stories. Recording them as they are listed as books here.
As with the previous, it’s a short story, very slight this one, but still liked it.
As with the previous, it’s a short story, very slight this one, but still liked it.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews