The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: Id like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger. Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed