Towards Zero

An explosive love triangle, a formidable matriarch and a house party of enemies. All drawn inexorably … Towards Zero. Now Anjelica Huston and a star-studded cast feature in a brand new BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's tense, ingenious novel. Read it before you see it!

Confined to her bed, Lady Tressilian decides to summon her friends to her seaside home for a party.

The guests begin to gather. The handsome sports star. The beautiful new wife. The ex.

The atmosphere is tense. But little do the guests know, that the party is about to come to a chilling end.

When Lady Tressilian is found brutally murdered in her bed each one of them becomes a suspect.

But who among them is a killer?

Reviews

“Masterly storytelling”
Times Literary Supplement

“Agatha Christie has surpassed herself”
New York Times

About the author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 30 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.