Karen's Reviews > The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

Of course, this isn’t an original Agatha Christie M. Poirot mystery.

Because...

Agatha Christie has since passed on…

So...

We have Sophie Hannah to thank for bringing the master, M. Poirot back to life, so to speak.

And...

This isn’t a simple task for an author to do – that is, to duplicate a famous author’s style of writing – let alone capture the nuances of her character.

However...

In this book, she does M. Poirot quite well, and to her credit, she also employs Ms. Christie’s tactics of keeping the readers uninformed throughout by denying them key clues along the way. Yes, we are given some hints through her Inspector Claypool.

But...

He is clueless, for the most part, like us readers, until towards the end when all is revealed with everyone (all the suspects) in the room.

Of course...

We can play our guessing games – and in some cases, I did feel myself saying...

“Yes, I got that one right!”

But alas...

There were so many characters that there were times I could not keep up with the who is who and should have kept a running list to refer to at some point.

In the end when all was revealed...

(And yes, I stayed with it throughout) there was only one character I felt should have been put away, too. Perhaps when you read it, you may feel as I do.

But...

Please, do read it, if you are an Agatha Christie fan, because I daresay, you may also become a fan of Sophie Hannah, too!