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 .

Closed Casket - The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

19 décembre 1931, Hercule Poirot et l'inspecteur Catchpool sont appelés pour élucider le meurtre d'un homme dans un hôpital du Norfolk. La mère de Catchpool, l'impérieuse Cynthia, insiste pour que Poirot loge dans une maison croulante sur la côte,  à proximité de l'hôpital, afin qu'ils puissent passer ensemble les fêtes de fin d'année pendant que Poirot enquête. Car Arnold, l'un de ses amis, doit bientôt être admis dans l'unité même où est survenu le meurtre, et sa femme est convaincue qu'il sera la prochaine victime, quoiqu'elle refuse d'expliquer d'où lui vient cette certitude.
Si Poirot souhaite échapper à la perspective cauche-mardesque de passer Noël dans le Norfolk, il n'a plus que quelques jours pour résoudre l'affaire et empêcher de nouvelles morts. Mais pendant ce temps, quelqu'un a fomenté ses propres plans pour le célèbre détective belge...    
Traduction de l'anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Fabienne Gondrand

La mort frappe aussi les gens heureux

The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot, the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket, returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. She is furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly did not send the letter in question. He cannot convince Sylvia Rule of his innocence, however, and she marches away in a rage.Shaken, Poirot goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him -- a man called John McCrodden who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy...Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?

Crime en toutes lettres

It's every mother's nightmare ...The first time Alice Fancourt goes out after their daughter is born, she leaves the two-week-old infant with her husband, David. When she returns only two hours later, she swears the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her distress, David is adamant that she is wrong.The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alice's story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks that Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depressions.With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it's too late?

Pas De Berceuse Pour Fanny (Spilling CID, #1)

Hercule Poirot a décidé de mettre au repos ses petites cellules grises en surchauffe. Il se réfugie incognito dans une pension londonienne, où il fait la connaissance de l'inspecteur Catchpool. Un soir, trois meurtres sont commis dans trois chambres à trois étages différents au Bloxham, un hôtel luxueux de Londres. On retrouve un bouton de manchette en or, gravé des initiales PIJ, dans la bouche de chacune des victimes. L'énigme est trop tentante ! Poirot n'y résiste pas et offre ses services à l'inspecteur Catchpool. Pour déméler les fils de l'intrigue, il va falloir à Poirot toute son habileté, et à Catchpool beaucoup de patience.

Meurtres en majuscules

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense. All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn't want to see her today-or ever again. But she can't resist. She parks outside the open gates of Newnham House, watches from across the road as Flora arrives and calls to her children Thomas and Emily to get out of the car. Except .

Perfect Little Children - A Novel

It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago. 

Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room...

Closed Casket - The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

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