The Killings at Kingfisher Hill/ The New Hercule Poirot Mystery/ by Sophie Hannah (HarperCollins UK)

Richard Davenport summons Poirot and his friend inspector Catchpool to prove the innocence of Helen, his fiancee, who now awaits hanging for a murder of his brother Frank. They agree to meet in Richard's home, Kingfisher Hill estate, where they wittness pretty complicated family dynamics. Also their journey in luxury passenger coach to the estate was really peculiar, because an almost hysterical woman claimed that someone tries to murder her if she sits on a particular seat.

Well, I really really love all Agatha Christie's novels, but I just cannot warm to Sophie Hannah's mysteries. I try very hard, every time, but ... no, they are not for me.

Too slow, narrative is tangled, something is just off. Poirot is a bad copy of an original, french phrases don't click as they should, there is no humour involved, the novel is somehow written by force.

I will stick around with original Poirot novels.

3/5