The Killings at Kingfisher Hill - Sophie Hannah (Audiobook)

 

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

Sophie Hannah

4 Stars

Publisher's Description

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?

Review

 In my youth i was an avid reader of Agatha Christie's murder mystery novels and jumped at the chance to try one of Sophie Hannah's audio books featuring the little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot.

The novel itself is well written and the characters are just as quirky as in one of the original Poirot stories. 

The narration was excellent and Julian Rhind-Tutt does a marvellous impersonation of the Belgian detective to rival even the great David Suchet.

I thoroughly enjoyed this audio version of the novel and just like the Agatha Christie novels of old I'm sure it will stand repeated listening

Ms Hannah has done a very good job of duplicating the style of the original novels such that you forget that you are not reading or listening to one of Agatha's own novels

If you like murder mystery then you'll love this and it is a must for any Christie fans

I received this free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

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Author

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 27 countries. In 2013, her latest novel, The Carrier, won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Two of Sophie’s crime novels, The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives, have been adapted for television and appeared on ITV1 under the series title Case Sensitive in 2011 and 2012. In 2004, Sophie won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her suspense story The Octopus Nest, which is now published in her first collection of short stories, The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets.

Sophie has also published five collections of poetry. Her fifth, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the 2007 T S Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is forty-one and lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. She is currently working on a new challenge for the little grey cells of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective. 

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