Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night
- Author Sophie Hannah, Created by Agatha Christie
- Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 26 October 2023
- Run Time 8 hours and 59 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Historical crime and mysteries, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss.
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What to expect
The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.
CAN HERCULE POIROT SOLVE A BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERY IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS?
It’s 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of a Norfolk hospital ward. Catchpool’s mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot solves the case. Cynthia’s friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital and his wife is convinced he will be the killer’s next victim, though she refuses to explain why.
Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, someone else – someone utterly ruthless – also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot …
Critics Review
‘Fiendishly plotted, this is a triumphant festive treat’
n—Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
n‘Sophie Hannah's latest case for Agatha Christie's Belgian detective is a dark psychological thriller with an ingenious resolution and it certainly takes the kitsch out of Christmas.
n—Daily Record
n‘If you want a Christie for Christmas, you couldn't do better than this.’
n—Alex Michaelides
n'Close enough to Christie's own style that the reader could segue from Murder on the Orient Express into this without a stumble.'
n—New York Journal of Books
n‘Infused with such love and energy … Poirot is exactly as Christie created him, with a vitality that recalls her very best novels.’
n—Daily Telegraph
n“Perfect…a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans.”
n—Tana French
n‘A magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot’s famous little grey cells.’
n—Daily Mail
n“What Sophie and Agatha have in common is a rare talent for fiendish unpredictability: they make you see how the impossible might be possible after all.”
n— Sunday Telegraph
n“The latest in Sophie Hannah’s series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christie’s beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot’s famous little grey cells.”
n— Daily Mail
n“I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands.”
n— Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl
n“Does Sophie Hannah’s Poirot live up to our expectations? Yes, he does, and markedly so … Poirot is still Poirot. Poirot is back.”
n— Alexander McCall Smith
n“Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christie’s heir.”
n— The Scotsman
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