Book Review
Book review: Nice plot, shame about the characters in Hercule Poirot’s latest outing
Sophie Hannah has overpopulated the crumbling Norfolk mansion where her new novel is set, to the detriment of the story
Silent Night by Sophie Hannah, €24.64
If those of us who have read everything Agatha Christie ever wrote know one thing, it’s that the drawing room, train carriage or vicarage where the identity of the murderer is revealed will usually be pretty packed.
Those assembled to hear Hercule Poirot or Jane Marple present their solution to a mystery might include enigmatic Hungarian diplomats (Murder on the Orient Express), buffoon-like MPs (Hercule Poirot’s Christmas), or disaffected American GIs (They Do It With Mirrors).