This month's book group choice is a good riff on Agatha Christie's works where a plucky heroine is caught up in a murder mystery in a remote snowbound manor house. Don't be fooled by the alternative title as Christmas gets barely a mention here. It's also very much of it's time.I found the overuse of commas and redundant phrases in the opening chapters like listening to chalk being tortured on a blackboard.
It's slow to get going and most of the characters are only drawn in outline making it quite difficult for me to keep track of the increasingly large cast.
Thankfully, I found some solace in the odd bits of sly humour from the heroine in particular.
Lastly, the identity of the murderer will surprise no-one.
Verdict: No classic, but enjoyable enough.
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