This is set up as a quintessential English country house (or vacation house) murder. A cranky, old, very wealthy, dying man invites nine potential heirs and tells them that he is going to be choosing one person every night at midnight to be the beneficiary of his will. No one will know who it is but each day, someone might end up being his sole heir, or being written out of the will. He is setting up the perfect scenario for someone to be murdered.And someone is, but it's not the old man. Through a series of winding expositions, we learn the true solution. Or do we?
It is a short read but is one that starts slow until it careens toward an ending that was interesting but very convoluted.
Three stars
This book comes out February 18
ARC kindly provided by NetGalley and publisher
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