REVIEW: And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
Author: Agatha Christie
My Rating: 4.5/5.
Premise: Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock off the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous host mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. Then one of the party dies suddenly, and they realise there may be a murderer in their midst. And all the time, copies of a macabre nursery rhyme hang in each room, a nursery rhyme with an omen of death for all ten of them.
Last year I started reading Agatha Christie books and oh boy she doesn't disappoint! The premise of this book was intriguing - murders following a nursery rhyme - but also offered a classic cluedo-style setting. It usually takes a chapter for me to get into Christie's books as they often start off flicking between the characters as they all initially come together. But after the first murder, this book was hard to put down. The suspense throughout this book surprised me. It was interesting to see how the murderer interpreted the nursery rhyme and wondering when the next murder will happen...and who'll be next! I honestly had no clue who was the murderer until the final chapter, where it was revealed in a slightly unconventional way. All the theories I was coming up with, none of them were correct - I was thinking there must be someone hiding around the house, there was a twin, it was him, no it was her. One day I'll stop trying to catch out the queen of murder mysteries! One of the best murder mysteries I've read!