Book: Death Comes as the End
Author: Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie has a complete change of pace as she takes the reader to ancient Egypt for this exciting tour De force. It might seem an unusual step for a writer who specialized in 20th century murder set in cozy English villages, but all the passions that lead to murder---jealousy, envy, greed, love, hate---are apparently timeless. Christie's research was painstaking and she is able to give us the exact details of this ancient life down to the type of food they ate and the type of clothes they wore. One of the most amazing things to me was that she was able to make these characters so realistic even though they are living in a time and under circumstances so foreign to the reader.
The plot centers on multiple murders involving members of the family of Imhotep, a well-to-do religious leader in Thebes around 2000 BC.
This novel is her most unique, but it has the same brilliant plotting and satisfying ending that all her others have.
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