Name: Janice Hopper's review of A Will to Kill by RV Raman
Item: A Will to Kill
Rating: 3
Author: Janice Hopper

RV Raman

THE FIRST IN A NEW SERIES THAT IS EVERYTHING WE LOVE ABOUT COSY CRIME - A SECLUDED MANOR HOUSE, RELATIVES WITH NEFARIOUS MOTIVES AND A PERPLEXING MURDER - SET IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA A NEW YORK TIMES RECOMMENDED BOOK A CRIMEREAD BEST MYSTERY OF 2020 ‘Like stepping back to the Golden Age of the classic mystery’ Rhys Bowen, international bestselling author of The Tuscan Child ‘Brilliantly evokes Agatha Christie’s classic country-estate mysteries for modern-day India’ CrimeReads, Best Mysteries of 2020 _______ MIST Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote and possibly haunted Greybrooke Manor, high up in the misty Nilgiris. MOUNTAINS He knows his guests expect to gain from his death, so to safeguard himself, he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force will depend on how he dies. MURDER Fernandez also invites Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator, to watch what unfolds. When a landslide occurs, temporarily isolating the estate, and a body is discovered, Athreya finds that death is not the only thing that the mist conceals. . . Your next cosy crime fix – perfect for fans of Golden Age crime, Knives Out and Lucy Foley _______ MORE PRAISE FOR A WILL TO KILL ‘I love RV Raman's Harith Athreya. . . A good traditional mystery with twists and turns’ Ovidia Yu, author of CWA-shortlisted The Mimosa Tree Mystery ‘The influence of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr on the narrative is compelling. . . influences of author Ngaio Marsh. . . subtle, clear, ironic, but always elegant and peppered with wit; characters sharply, sometimes hilariously, drawn’ Telegraph India

‘A modern-day take on the classic locked-room murder mystery’ New York Times (a Harith Athreya mystery)

A Will to Kill

Janice Hopper

An isolated country house. A landslide that (sorta) blocks them in. A mysterious murder. A clever detective.

To me, it seemed pretty much a by-the-numbers sort of mystery. Some of the reviews I saw said it was Agatha Christie=like, and I think that's fair. Not much character development. I had trouble remembering who was who aside from the main character. But that might be me, because I'm not really deeply in love with puzzle mysteries.

The narrator of the audiobook was fine. I liked the accent.

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