The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (associated with the Agatha Christie series)

 Once again, I ran out of audiobooks for my early morning dog walks. I had a number of books on hold on Libby, but that was not going to work for right now, so I grabbed at what was immediately available. I came up with The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hanna which is part of the Agatha Christie collection. Ms. Hanna was reported to be a NY Times bestselling author, but I’m quite sure it was not for this book. It’s been a longtime since I’ve read anything from Agatha Christie, but I did recently watch the movie remake of Murder on the Orient Expression. In this plot, Hercule Poirot was engaged by Richard Devenport to solve the murder of his brother, Frank Devonport, even though the fiancee of Richard had confessed to committing the murder. Richard was sure she was innocent. As usual there were numerous plot manipulations to confuse the crime which only Poirot could figure his way through. I thought Ms. Hanna overdid it with the plot twists to a great extent and I simply did not find this experience of reading this novel to be worthwhile. I’d give it a 2/5 rating – best to avoid this one That must be why it was available and all the good books in the Libby library were already taken.