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| Towards Zero |
Trust Agatha Christie to come with a really twisty whodunit and give your grey cells a good exercise! The setting is nothing new; classic Christie fare, if you were to ask me. You have a large pool of suspects, that is, people gathered for a random social occasion that's totally irrelevant to us and in the general scheme of things (because, murder!), and as usual, nothing is as it is shown to be. In other words, a setup that's ripe enough to stoke long-buried simmering feelings, eventually leading to murder.
Towards Zero features Superintendent Battle as the lead detective, also his last in the series, but the real detective is a random character, an Angus MacWhirter, who serendipitously happens to be there at Gull's Point (where the story unfolds) for a totally personal reason. It's as if Agatha Christie had given up on Battle to solve the crime all by himself. But I did enjoy reading it for what it is, a pure suspense-soaked mystery abound in twists and turns.
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