AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie

I just completed Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with my high school lit group. I love how this brilliantly written murder mystery keeps everyone guessing until the big reveal. There is a reason Agatha Christie has been crowned the Queen of Mystery, and this book is one of them!

Ten invitations have gone out to ten different people inviting them to a weekend at the solitary, yet well known, Soldier Island. Expecting a weekend of relaxation and fun, the mood shifts dramatically when the first person dies. Surely it was just an accident. Even if one of the ten soldier figurines has disappeared from the middle of the dining room table, and the death matches the first line of the poem about 10 Little Soldiers posted in everyone's rooms, right? When a second person dies and the whole routine happens again, it's painstakingly obvious that a killer is somewhere on the island and is eliminating people one by one. Why? What's the connection? These ten people have never laid eyes on each other before, and they come from all different walks of life. What is the string that ties them all together? That's what they're desperately trying to figure out...before they all die.

This fantastic read is full of unexpected twists and turns, and the motive behind it all,,,,well, I guess it's one to die for.

HEADS UP- There is some language. The general periodically adds in d*** when he speaks. Obviously, murder is at the heart of this story. The murders are not gory in detail, but it is an intense read.