A review by sandylc
The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

3.0

 I avoided this 'new Hercule Poirot' series for several years then read the Christmas entry and found it fine as long as I didn't compare it to the original. I feel much the same about the first entry: fine but no Poirot. Not sure how his side kick in this series, a Scotland Yard detective, got or keeps, his job as he avoids dead bodies to the point of leaving the scene of the crime, and is every bit as clueless as Hastings is in the original Poirot. Hasting luckily is an amateur and has no need to find the murderer. The plot was interesting but the ending convoluted and drawn out.