I’ve been meaning to read a Christie novel for a while so thanks to my book club for choosing this as our first read of 2025. 

I had a really good time with this. It featured a lot of the things I’ve found I enjoy in a mystery: ‘locked-room’ setting, an interesting cast of characters (especially the ‘detective’), a pacy writing style and a fair few red herrings or mis-directions. I have to say that I did not see that ending coming at all but I appreciated that as I found myself trying to work out who the killer could be and why. 

I will agree that the style was slightly difficult to get into and I definitely found it easier the more I read, but overall a great start to my reading year, and I definitely don’t think this will be my last Christie read.