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The Last Death of the Year
A New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Related to this series)
- Author
- Sophie Hannah
- Narrator
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 23 October 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Fiction: pastiche
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
New Year's Eve, 1932.
Hercule Poirot and his good friend Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the Greek island of Lamperos for a little holiday…or is it?
Catchpool suspects Poirot has a different reason for being there — one he won't reveal. As the clock ticks towards the New Year and a festive guessing game takes a sinister turn, can Poirot stop a murderer who is determined to strike before midnight?
Critics Review
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"A delicious, twisty, delightful read, The Last Death of the Year has an opening hook worthy of Christie at her finest.” —Alex Michaelides
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"A very clever and enjoyable whodunit." —Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph
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“Sophie Hannah does it again in this entertaining, page-turning resurrection of the great detective." —Nita Prose
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"Fans hoping to beat Poirot to the mind-bogglingly ingenious solution are well-advised to concede the competition in advance." —Kirkus Review
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“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.”—Sunday Telegraph
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“Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christie’s heir.”—The Scotsman
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 4.0
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4.0 4.0
While really enjoying the return of the greatest detective in fiction, Sophie Hannah can never capture the sometimes wrongly maligned "simplicity" of the writing of the grande dame of the art of the whodunit, the peerless Dame Agatha Christie. Simplicity, or the appearance of simplicity, is the genius of Christie: a genius that no one has come near to matching. Hannah employs too much exposition through the musings of Inspector Edward Catchpool which comes dangerously close to sidelining the star of the show, Hercule Poirot. And while the revealed plot is serpentine to the point of becoming a left-handed corkscrew (try using it right-handed to open a wine bottle and you'll understand what l mean) l still very much enjoyed the book because even a second-hand Poirot is always worth spending time with. Tutt is mostly excellent as narrator but his female characterisations are not always as clearly drawn as the need to be.
Thomas Reilly 2025-11-01
Details
- Author
- Sophie Hannah
- Narrator
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Duration
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9780008710033
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Fiction: pastiche
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
The new Hercule Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah, follow-up to the bestselling Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night. New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and his good friend Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the Greek island of Lamperos for a little holiday…or is it? Catchpool suspects Poirot has a different reason for being there — one he won't reveal. As the clock ticks towards the New Year and a festive guessing game takes a sinister turn, can Poirot stop a murderer who is determined to strike before midnight?
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