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The Blurb On The Back:
The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K- University Mystery Club’s trip.
But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive.
As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?
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The Verdict:
Yukito Ayatsuji’s classic detective mystery (translated into English by Ho-Ling Wong) is a fast-paced tribute to Agatha Christie’s AND THEN HERE WERE NONE that’s filled with twists and turns. Although I enjoyed it, the large cast is disorientating at first and they’re all under-developed, the ending is a bit of a cheat because it relies on the reader not being told a key fact and I didn’t really understand the killer’s motivation.
The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K- University Mystery Club’s trip.
But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive.
As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Yukito Ayatsuji’s classic detective mystery (translated into English by Ho-Ling Wong) is a fast-paced tribute to Agatha Christie’s AND THEN HERE WERE NONE that’s filled with twists and turns. Although I enjoyed it, the large cast is disorientating at first and they’re all under-developed, the ending is a bit of a cheat because it relies on the reader not being told a key fact and I didn’t really understand the killer’s motivation.
