Allen & Unwin The Visitors book Fiction English Hardcover 96 pages

Nobody leaves - or lives - without signing it. A Christmas stocking chiller by the queen of crime.

In this small but perfectly formed collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror. Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend's inner-city home? And whose spidery handwriting is it that fills the pages? Who is the strangely courteous boy still lingering at a child's tenth birthday party when all the parents have gathered their children and left? And why does the presence of a perfectly ordinary woman in a post office queue leave another customer pallid and sweating with fear?Beware what you open this Christmas!

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 27 languages. Her recent revival of Agatha Christie's Poirot in The Monogram Murders was a critical and commercial triumph. Her previous short story collection for Sort of Books is The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets (2008).