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Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.‘What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will – one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live . . .Among Lady Playford’s guests are two men she has never met – the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited . . . until Poirot starts to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murderer to strike. But why does she seem so determined to provoke, in the presence of a possible killer?When the crime is committed in spite of Poirot’s best efforts to stop it, and the victim is not who he expected it to be, will he be able to find the culprit and solve the mystery?Following the phenomenal global success of The Monogram Murders, which was published to critical acclaim following a co-ordinated international launch in September 2014, international best-selling crime writer Sophie Hannah has been commissioned by Agatha Christie Limited to pen a second fully-authorised Poirot novel. The new book marks the centenary of the creation of Christie’s world-famous detective Hercule Poirot, introduced in her first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

They have everythingThe Buchanan dynasty controls an empire of restaurants – and Gloria, the coldly powerful matriarch, controls the Buchanans. But even Gloria has weaknesses. When she falls ill, she’s forced to rely on the most expensive home-help possible – Lori Johnson. She has nothing Lori has struggled her way out of poverty.She has absolutely no time at all for Reid Buchanan, the spoiled playboy of a glitzy family – he’s everything she dislikes in a man. Especially when he’s caught out in a sordid tabloid sex scandal. But she will teach them the hardest lesson of all It’s Lori’s job to show the Buchanans what’s really important – before secrets and lies destroy them all.