The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

In 2013, the estate of Agatha Christie announced that it had accepted a proposal from Sophie Hannah to publish a new Hercule Poirot novel.[2][3] The novel, The Monogram Murders, was published in September 2014 and became the first in a new series of Poirot novels by Hannah.The Killings at Kingfisher Hill is the fourth novel in this series, and is preceded by Closed Casket and The Mystery of Three Quarters.[1][4]

The Killings at Kingfisher HIll was published in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2020. It was published in the United States by HarperCollins on September 15, 2020.[5]

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill was reviewed positively in Publishers Weekly,[6] Star Tribune,[7] NPR,[4] and The Wall Street Journal.[8] In 2020, it was listed as one of "The Best Books to Give This Year” by The New York Times Book Review, which described it as "a psychological thriller with a characteristically intricate and humorous puzzle of a plot."[9]

Reviewers from other publications had more mixed reactions to the novel. A review in The Boar stated that "It's confusing at points and the eventual revelations are a little too unbelievable to be satisfying, but it's still a generally light read that mostly plays fair with the reader."[10]