Nine Lives

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And while it’s true that I caught a couple of them in advance, the lion’s share were truly surprising. i'll dig into this one more as soon as i can, but it's disappointing when a book starts out fun and then poops its pants at the end. Even those who are identified and provided protection are not safe with a killer on the loose who will leave no stone unturned in finishing off his intended victims. Not my favorite Swanson, but a solid read that kept me speculating and I appreciated that it stayed coherent from beginning to end. He is convinced that it holds the key to this situation if he can just decipher the WHY, of how they were selected….

It goes on the countdown to from Nine to One which I like as you hope against hope that the trend will be bucked. people with no obvious connections are sent a list with 9 names on it, including their own, with some of them dismissing it as of no importance. I was pleased by the way things came together and the twist toward the end that I probably should have seen coming, but didn't.The plot owes much of itself to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, which doesn’t fail the notice of the investigating officers. The author can always be relied on to come up with the kind of crime fiction that will garner a huge audience, and I have no doubt that this will be a big success on publication. The "List-of-Nine case" as the Detective Sam Hamilton refers to it, wants to learn how nine names on a list are related and why the list is dwindling. He caught a connection between the lists and Christie’s classic novel, and read it several times while the investigation was ongoing.

A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, he lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife and cat. not only that, but its not even until the 70%ish mark that some sort of connection is formed and the story seems to have a direction. I won an ARC of this book in a Goodreads Giveaway and would like to thank the author and publisher for the opportunity to read and review the same . Since 2011, I have been guiding avid readers toward books they will love and offering a friendly place to discuss them. She opened it, curious, and pulled out a single folded sheet of paper, and stared at a list of names.From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. Nine random people receive a sheet of paper - a list with just nine names on it - nothing else, no clue as to what the list signifies. Peter Swanson is the author of six novels including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year, and his most recent thriller, Eight Perfect Murders. The mystery itself is intriguing, and Swanson does a fantastic job balancing multiple POVs and keeping the reader hooked from one short chapter to the next.

The book is broken down into sections beginning with NINE- We learn what each of the characters are doing when they receive the letter. Yet once it got going, I was intrigued to find out what the connection was and why this was happening. Unless I missed some details that flew by my head due to struggling to concentrate, you can’t figure out who or why because the information is simply withheld (so I’d be interested to know if anyone actually figured it out! The next section is EIGHT- The FBI gets the case when one of their own, Jessica Winslow from the Albany field office finds out she is one of the NINE…what are the others doing when they are told? I absolutely loved this book, reading it in two sittings, just having to know what happened next, and why.

because there are 10 POVs and the book is pretty short, there wasnt any time for me to develop a connection to any of the characters. If you are an author or publisher who would like me to read your book please read my Review Policy to see if my blog fits your book.

If you haven’t read this book and plan to, I highly suggest listening to an audiobook or reading it on kindle so this doesn’t happen to you. We feel edgy as 2 of the people on the list start to exchange messages, becoming friends and then more. After skipping Swanson's last (for now) after some so-so reviews, I was thrilled to see such an enthusiastic reception for this book and was ready to jump back into Swanson's world.The con was that the narrative bounces around a lot and ends up being just one person being murdered after the other. One of the names on the list is an FBI agent who quickly becomes part of the investigation, and works diligently to find the connection between the people on the list, as well as the motive for the murders. it's pretty clichéd to punish ████████████ by ████, but it's even worse because most of the victims were ████████████ so who's being ████ here? It's thoroughly entertaining and a marvelous homage to one of the most famous mysteries of all time. As a couple more deaths follow, the hunt is on to find a killer, but with nothing to go on, no connection, no motive, it’s looking increasingly impossible!