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The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

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The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile—returns to solve a fiendish new mystery.

Hercule Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. But there is a strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there.

The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot’s curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached…

Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?

Critics Review

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u201cu2018Close enough to Christieu2019s own style that the reader could segue fromu00a0Murder on the Orient Expressu00a0into this present novel without a stumble.u201d
u2014 New York Journal of Books

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u201cWhat 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.u201d
u2014 Sunday Telegraph

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u201cThe latest in Sophie Hannahu2019s series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christieu2019s beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirotu2019s famous little grey cells.u201d
u2014 Daily Mail

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u201cI was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands.u201d
u2014 Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl

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u201cPerfectu2026a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans.u201d
u2014 Tana French

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u201cDoes Sophie Hannahu2019s Poirot live up to our expectations? Yes, he does, and markedly so u2026 Poirot is still Poirot. Poirot is back.u201d
u2014u00a0Alexander McCall Smith

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u201cSophie Hannah is genuinely Christieu2019s heir.u201d
u2014 The Scotsman

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