Hercule Poirots Silent Night: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

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The worlds greatest detective, Hercule Poirot legendary star of Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.
The main danger, as I see it, is that you and I will be trapped here for the whole of the Christmas holiday!

Its 19 December 1931 and Hercule Poirot and Inspector Catchpool are called to investigate a brutal murder in a Norfolk hospital. Catchpools mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that they stay with her nearby so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot finds the killer. Cynthias friend is being admitted to the same hospital and she is convinced he will be the next victim.

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 has other ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot

Reviews

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.

Daily Record

If you want a Christie for Christmas, you couldn't do better than this.

Alex Michaelides

'Close enough to Christie's own style that the reader could segue from Murder on the Orient Express into this without a stumble.'

New York Journal of Books

Infused with such love and energy Poirot is exactly as Christie created him, with a vitality that recalls her very best novels.

Daily Telegraph

Perfecta pure treat for Agatha Christie fans.

Tana French

A magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirots famous little grey cells.

Daily Mail

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

The latest in Sophie Hannahs series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christies beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirots famous little grey cells.

Daily Mail

I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands.

Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl

Does Sophie Hannahs Poirot live up to our expectations Yes, he does, and markedly so Poirot is still Poirot. Poirot is back.

Alexander McCall Smith

Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christies heir.

The Scotsman

Author Bio

Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of 9 psychological thrillers, which have been published in more than 20 countries and adapted for television. Her novel The Carrier won the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and as a poet has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott.