anitamarie 's review for:

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
4.0

Fairly standard Christie. Lots of misdirection, almost no one in this book is who they claim to be. I had a feeling who the killer was and I was correct but there was a lot going on in the middle of it and I had no idea as to the motive until it was all laid out in the last couple chapters. Miss Marple didn’t show up until a fair bit later in the book which always annoys me, but her presence was effective and it was nice to see the police in this book actually being part of the action and not just completely on the sideline.

Sometimes I think Christie throws every plot device into one book. For all the confusion I felt during the middle part when it came to what all these characters were doing in the book it made sense .