There Will Be Blood

Continuing with the Christmas mood, I picked up a book to read this month

A gift for my daughter from a  friend, one of my favourite authors.

When I read her books as a Young  Adult, I thought  of them as mysteries to crack. 

Now when I read, I understand how well she portrays the British elitists, the craving for a life above ordinary.

The psychology of a killer and the victim too! 

And some truisms! 

“I believe the present matters --- not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms --- a false perspective. - Hilda Lee” 

She makes me finish a book in one siting and that is what I did with this one!!

Known for techniques, intriguing plots, planning, the set up and finally quiet murders, this one is a shocker! 

There was blood!  Lot of it! and it was not without its underlying connection to the whole murder. 

“I know enough of life to know that you can never judge any case on its outside merits.” 

This one line describes this mystery!

A prodigal son, a dysfunctional family, brought together during Christmas by the old doyen of the Lee family who thinks he can have some fun at their expense.

But the tables get turned(literally) and a murder is staged! 

Hercule Poirot has an arrogant way of solving mysteries which puts off his Scotland Yard friends, but here the police seem eager to get his help to solve this mystery. 

And therein lies the mystery.

A wonderfully woven story, love her flow of writing, clean vocabulary so uncommon in today's novels and the ways of the devious minds!

Nothing Christmassy about this one for sure!!

A satisfying read, 3 hours well spent! 
Her novels remind me of a patchwork quilt. Individuality woven together to create a masterpiece! 

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie