The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

Resumen del libro

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 fiancee, 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?

Biografía del autor

Sophie Hannah (Manchester, 1971) es una reconocida autora de thrillers psicológicos, publicados en más de veinte países y adaptados para televisión. Su obra incluye también el cuento, los libros infantiles y la poesía. Miembro honorario de la junta del Lucy Cavendish College, en Cambridge, ha recibido numerosos premios y reconocimientos, entre ellos el Premio Daphne du Maurier, el International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award y el National Book Award en la categoría de Thriller. Tras Los crímenes del monograma, Ataúd cerrado, El misterio de las cuatro cartas y Los asesinatos de Kingfisher Hill, ésta es su quinta incursión en el universo Poirot.