A review by sarahmatthews
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

Read in Braille

Pub. 1944, 301pp

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I absolutely loved this Christie, it’s one of the best of her non-Poirot books I’ve read.

It has a different feel to many of her others so it really stands out. There’s a group of interesting characters set around the world of tennis. I really enjoyed the way she developed the relationships in the story as well as creating a wonderfully plotted murder mystery. And of course I was totally fooled by all the misdirections. These characters are very memorable and there’s an unexpected element to the story in which Christie was ahead of her time. I can’t be any more specific than that! This novel has jumped into my top 5 Christie books.

Here’s a taster of its set up:

“When you read the account of a murder...you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment...”

The In GAD We Trust Spoiler Warning podcast episode about it is particularly good: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-gad-we-trust/id1516423562?i=1000571623214