The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah

Hercule Poirot meets a young woman in distress at Pleasant's Coffee House in London on a Thursday evening. He goes there because they have the best coffee in London. He worries about Jennie all through the book, sure that she is tied to the murders discovered at the Bloxham Hotel, the case of Edward Catchpool, a policeman friend of Mr. Poirot's from Scotland Yard. Catchpool is the narrator of the story. Poirot helps the investigation by asking all the right questions and by using his little gray cells. All through the book he is trying to educate Catchpool in the ways of detection. Three people are murdered in the Bloxham Hotel, all from the same small village, all found in their own rooms, poisoned. Hannah does an excellent job of recreating the 1930's London so familiar to readers of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries. It was a good read and had me guessing to the end.