- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (3 Jan 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141021179
- ISBN-13: 978-0141021171
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 683,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"You have to find the crosses. Find them or other people could die..." It was a short note. Signed simply 'Sam'. But it was enough to send ex-FBI agent Alex Rourke on a search to an isolated valley in the American mid-West. And now he's trapped there - in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a ferocious storm. With him are a dozen other men and women, all seeking shelter in Isaac's Bar. However the night is about to turn deadly - when the nearby riverbank collapses, and spits out two badly decomposed bodies. The man and the woman were clearly murdered and buried there months before ...As secrets, recriminations and violent agendas come to the fore in the bar that's now cut off from the world, Alex races to find 'the crosses'. And then the deaths begin, one by one by one ...
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John Rickards lives on the south coast of England with his partner and baby son. This is his fourth novel.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book based on the product description that it was an updated take on my favourite Agatha Christie novel 'And then there were none". On this level then I was disappointed as apart from a group of strangers stranded by a storm from help, that's where the similarities end.
It more closely resembles the film Identity if anything.a race aginst time to find a killer but I had difficulty visualising some of the scenes had to reread several parts to make sense of the plot and there needs some suspension of belief for it to work.
However, that said it was atmospheric, I have read all his books from |Winterland and enjoy seeing how the character Alex Rourke has developed and found that it was a weekend 'romp' that I couldn't put down.
It more closely resembles the film Identity if anything.a race aginst time to find a killer but I had difficulty visualising some of the scenes had to reread several parts to make sense of the plot and there needs some suspension of belief for it to work.
However, that said it was atmospheric, I have read all his books from |Winterland and enjoy seeing how the character Alex Rourke has developed and found that it was a weekend 'romp' that I couldn't put down.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
On the back of this book it said that the plot was an ingenious copy of the Agatha Christie thriller "And then there were none", updated to a lonely valley in the American mid west.
Firstly, Agatha Christie wouldn't recognise the title of her book as it was published around 60 years ago under a very different title (Ten Little *******) until the Politically Correct Brigade changed it.
Secondly, the Agatha Christie Estate wouldn't be likely to sue the author for plagiarism either, because this muddled plot bears almost no resemblance to the original. The storm raging overhead is the most exciting part of the story, otherwise it's just a catalogue of motiveless killings around a roadhouse, with more loose ends left lying around than an unravelled sweater and the ending is very dull.
Another reviewer said it was more like Taggart, but the early Taggarts were far better than this book.
There was a chance to make a good book out of the original idea, but this never happened.
Firstly, Agatha Christie wouldn't recognise the title of her book as it was published around 60 years ago under a very different title (Ten Little *******) until the Politically Correct Brigade changed it.
Secondly, the Agatha Christie Estate wouldn't be likely to sue the author for plagiarism either, because this muddled plot bears almost no resemblance to the original. The storm raging overhead is the most exciting part of the story, otherwise it's just a catalogue of motiveless killings around a roadhouse, with more loose ends left lying around than an unravelled sweater and the ending is very dull.
Another reviewer said it was more like Taggart, but the early Taggarts were far better than this book.
There was a chance to make a good book out of the original idea, but this never happened.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The blurb says an updated Agatha Christie, but the book is nothing like it. It'a a bit like Taggart in that slowly the suspects are killed until there's only one or two possible murderers. The writing style was not to my taste and there were many implausible twists There are so many better books to read than this.
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