Title: The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
Author: Sophie Hannah (as a continuation of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series)
Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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I received a free copy from HarperCollins Audio UK via Netgalley in exchange for my impartial review.
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This was an amazing book with an awesome narration by a great narrator, and an immersive plot. I read my first and second Agatha Christie books in June, and Sophie Hannah really did a great job with this extension of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. This book is part of a new series featuring Hercule Poirot after Agatha Christie’s death, so I’m definitely checking out more in the series.
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In this book, Hercule Poirot is accompanied by Catchpole, and I found it funny how clueless he was. I was able to solve a number of mysteries in the book before he did! Speaking of mysteries, there were quite a lot in this book, and I absolutely loved how they all played out. The author did a great job of tying them all together and there were no loose ends.
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The characters were really great, even though the book was more plot driven than character driven. There were some complicated family dynamics, secrets, jealousy, and suppressed negative emotions among the Davenports as well as their friends. Of course, there’s a lot of murder.
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Agatha Christie fans will definitely love this one.
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Blurb
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 delectably twisty mystery
Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family.
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?
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