Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.

CAN HERCULE POIROT SOLVE A BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERY IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS?

It’s 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of a Norfolk hospital ward. Catchpool’s mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot solves the case. Cynthia’s friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital and his wife is convinced he will be the killer’s next victim, though she refuses to explain why.

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 – also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot . . .

“PRAISE FOR SOPHIE HANNAH: "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 Hannah's series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot's 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 "Perfect...a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans." -- Tana French "Does Sophie Hannah's 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 Christie's heir." -- The Scotsman”

‘Fiendishly plotted, this is a triumphant festive treat’

—Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday

‘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

“Perfect…a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans.”

—Tana French

‘A magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot’s 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 Hannah’s series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christie’s beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot’s 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 Hannah’s 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 Christie’s heir.”

— The Scotsman

Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling author and her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. She writes contemporary psychological thrillers and, at the request of Agatha Christie's family and estate, the new series of Hercule Poirot novels. She lives in Cambridge with her family.Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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