THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD BOOK REVIEW

In the middle of August’s heat, our former volunteer Helin returned to her home in Finland but she left us some book recommendations. We will publish her three books, one after one in the sequence of upcoming magazines.

Get your favourite hot drink, a warm blanket and get cozy. Here is the second recommendation of Helin’s top three summer readings (or for you “winter readings”).

It’s a long, hot, lazy summer day. The kind of day when all you want to do is go sit somewhere in the shade, sip on a cold drink and read something gripping and compelling. I have a recommendation.

The solution is always a good old cosy crime book. And no-one writes detective stories quite like Agatha Christie. I could recommend literally any of her books but if I have to name only one, it is The murder of Roger Ackroyd.

This is probably one of the cleverest mysteries I have ever read, the way that the story was executed was so smart. In this book the iconic detective Hercule Poirot has retired to a small town in the countryside, when a murder happens just a few houses away.

Despite his retirement and the absence of his right hand man Hastings he is drawn to solve the murder and put his “little grey cells” to work.

I don't want to say much about this book in the fear of spoiling something. I think the best way to read this story is to kind of go into it blind without knowing too much.

But i promise that you will not be disappointed

Helin Leini