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Endless Night
by Agatha Christie
Mike, the narrator, and his new, wealthy bride Ellie move to a village and buy a plot of land called 'Gypsy's Acre', which is supposed to be cursed. There they build a house, and I can't remember much else. That's at least three quarters of the book. Finally, surprise!, there's a murder, and then the murder is solved.
Christie isn't an author I'd usually go to for a character-driven book or a book from a male perspective, and the character development wasn't my favorite part of this book. I don't think any author can write fully convincing characters of the opposite gender, but whatever. Christie's strength is writing sketches of characters with just enough depth to last her novels (or are they novellas?), and then writing clever, tightly-plotted mysteries around those characters. In this book, the mystery doesn't come until the end, which is unfortunate, because when it does happen, she's firing on all cylinders. Was it worth it? I'm not sure.
Christie isn't an author I'd usually go to for a character-driven book or a book from a male perspective, and the character development wasn't my favorite part of this book. I don't think any author can write fully convincing characters of the opposite gender, but whatever. Christie's strength is writing sketches of characters with just enough depth to last her novels (or are they novellas?), and then writing clever, tightly-plotted mysteries around those characters. In this book, the mystery doesn't come until the end, which is unfortunate, because when it does happen, she's firing on all cylinders. Was it worth it? I'm not sure.