A review by sharkybookshelf
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

3.0

An awkward house party gathers at Gull’s Point, an elderly widow’s seaside home - a tension-filled holiday which ends in murder…

Apparently this was one of Christie’s top ten favourites, but…sorry Agatha, it didn’t quite wow me, although I did appreciate Superintendent Battle - there were a few genuinely funny moments.

It was a very clever solution, which I didn’t figure out, and I appreciate what Christie was doing with the different characters’ paths converging on a single moment (“towards zero”) - it is such an interesting idea to explore, the chance of being in the right place at the right time. But the set-up was just a little too convoluted for me, and the denouement felt a little contrived.

A clever, slightly philosophical closed circle murder mystery, but with a convoluted set-up.