Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.

I am Kemper Donovan and prepared to be shocked, listeners, but somehow the year 2025 has come and gone.

And I never had the pleasure during that whole time

of inviting best-selling author,

mystery musical creator,

and Poirot Continuer, Sophie Hanna, onto the show.

Well, I am going to rectify this gross injustice right now.

I'm going to do better in 26, and I am going to rectify this gross injustice right now. I'm going to do better in 2026. And I am going to

interview Sophie Hannah this very moment. I don't even have to bring her in. She's right here.

Sophie, as many of you already know, is a big friend of the podcast. She has been since the very

beginning. And she is out with a new book. It's actually been out in England since the summer of 2025, and it just came out a little more than a week ago here in the United States. So now feels like a good time to talk about it. Welcome back, Sophie.

Thank you. Thank you for having me on. I've missed the podcast.

I've been listening to it, but I've missed joining in with it.

I was going to say, hopefully not as a listener. I know you are a dedicated listener, but yes.

I am. I'm a devoted listener to every episode.

So your book is titled, No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done.

Yes.

To start us off, can you give us a sense of who the Lamberts are and a little non-spoilery

hint or taste as to what it is they may have done?

Yes.

So the Lamberts are a perfectly ordinary family, a mum, a dad, two children, boy and a girl,

teenage children, and they have a very adorable Welsh terrier pet dog called Champ,

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