Sleep No More

The few improbabilities are effectively disguised by the sublime quality of James’s writing. She never puts a word wrong...she is the unrivalled portrayer of the sort of bad character who keeps up a convincing performance until the mask is torn off to reveal evil intent. With endings sometimes shocking and never less than surprising, she leaves her readers gasping

It is difficult to imagine a more pleasing afternoon than one beside a fire or radiator, with a pot of tea to hand and autumn rain against the window, while settling in for a series of delightful shocks: “I found the yo-yo the day before Christmas Eve …”

When PD James died in 2014, readers lost a distinctive voice in crime writing. Her nostalgic style harks back to the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, of Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham; James called on similar motifs from that era, but developed them further with psychological insight and gleeful darkness…The standout tale is The Murder of Santa Claus’, featuring the classic closed circle set-up

As the nights draw in you’re unlikely to find a book more ingeniously pleasing than the late, great PD James’s Sleep No More, six flawless new stories in which period settings nod slyly to detective fiction’s golden age...Always a shrewd closing twist lies in wait.

Extraordinarily clever, immensely entertaining and with a wintry theme that makes them perfect for the long dark nights ahead, these murderous tales are a dead cert for all crime lovers.

As soon as I started on the first story I was caught up in her world once again [...] the tales she tells seem timeless...She was one of the best at what she did, her work lives on and Sleep No More only enhances my appreciation of her skills