Opposite of Murder by Sophie Hannah

‘So clever, and has the perfect twist’ GILLIAN McALLISTER

What if the only way to prevent a murder is by confessing to it?

Jemma Stelling has confessed to a crime – one she can’t have committed. She has an unshakeable alibi: when Marianne Upton was stabbed to death outside her home, Jemma was at the police station confessing to a deadly obsession with Marianne and a plan to kill her in precisely the way she was killed.

So is Jemma innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded murderer?

The gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Sophie Hannah, the queen of the unguessable twist.

About the Author: Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. Sophie is the author of the bestselling Poirot continuation mysteries. The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie is also a bestselling poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE and A-level. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her family. Her novel Haven’t They Grown was chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club and her novel The Couple at the Table became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller in 2023. In 2023 Sophie was awarded the prestigious Dagger in the Library from the Crime Writers’ Association in recognition of her brilliant body of work.

29 Jan 2026
 

The Opposite of Murder: the twisty new thriller from bestselling author of The Couple at the Table by Sophie Hannah ISBN 9781529352962