2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

I hate really scary books and won't read horror. I chose this mid-road one for this category. Also, because I've never read anything by Agatha Christie.

This is a great place to start! I could not put this book down!

It's a good one! It's definitely not scary. But a clever mystery. Our Girl Scout leader told us the story as a campfire ghost story when I was a girl.

Would love to try some Agatha Christie!

The Lit Lover - this was my first foray into Agatha Christie, and it is an absolute cracker. So clever!

This is one is my favorite mysteries. Lots of twists and turns to keep you guessing.

I just finished this for the same reasons Alina!
I don't like being scared and I've never read an Agatha Christie before but I might actually read another Christie after this, even though it did give me the creeps.

My review of this is I really wasn't interested/invested in the book until the accusation was made and the first murder happened.
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After that I wanted to watch those little Indian figurines disappear one at a time because I knew everyone was going to die.
I read over and over that poem and figured the actual murderer would be the last 'Indian' and they'd hang themselves for the crimes of murder.
But we never got any real clues to who the murderer was despite getting everyone's inner monologue at some point.
It wasn't even until page 146, we have the last five and someone's thoughts reveal that one of them is at least the murderer.
I fell completely for Armstrong being the murderer with the 'red herring' bit, but honestly the Judge always made the most sense.
He judges people for a living & actually sentences people to die.

The creepy way in which we knew people would die in order with the poem didn't really spoil the murders because they were so crafty in keeping with the poem.

I loved that none of the murders were not actually 'gross' we don't 'see' them take place really so it's not so much, 'eh gads a dead body! murder!' it's oh my god who's doing this!!!
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I love Agatha Christie! Great mind-resting books for me. She concentrates on the mystery and nothing else. "And There Were None" is actually quite a bit out of character, probably the scariest she wrote, since the murders keep happening while the story goes on. Most others are a traditional whodunnit, the murder happens at the beginning and we need to figure it out from the clues. I highly recommend The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as a more representative sample, and one of the most brilliant. I had no clue at all, she took me by surprise!