Book Club: Mystery

"There is something wonderfully freeing about meeting morally suspect characters: they seem perfectly capable of doing absolutely anything, from making the most heroic sacrifices to the darkest betrayals. The characters of And Then There Were None are not necessarily good people, but they are good to read–wild cards one and all. The most chilling aspect of the tale is that under the premise of the killer hiding among the others, he or she must necessarily be acting the part of a frightened victim as well as the truly terrified ones. He or she must be crazy enough to set up an elaborate ten-murder scheme, but also sane enough to remain undetected even as everyone begins to look at each other suspiciously."

"I found this book to be incredibly enthralling. It was impossibly hard to put down, but also built up an anxiety within the reader that made me wish I could put it down. The writing was incredibly well done. Even though there was a mess of characters I had to learn straight away, it didn’t feel like I couldn’t keep up. I also enjoyed the fact no matter how much I guessed about the ending, I couldn’t pin it down exactly. Nothing is given away unless the reader is truly a master sleuth."