Cirrus@Austlit

'Bored with her old book club, Alicia Finlay decides to start a new one—dedicated to her favorite crime writer Agatha Christie. As she gathers seven quirky members together, little does Alicia know they’re about to stumble upon a real-life mystery of their own. When one member suddenly vanishes and her husband shows up murdered soon after, the club decide to do as the meddling Miss Marple would do, and investigate.

'So begins the first exciting installment of the Agatha Christie Book Club (ACBC), a motley collection of amateur sleuths who use Christie as their guide to help solve a range of mysteries that fall into their lap. Following in the footsteps of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the group must sort the clues from the red herrings to solve the murder of Arthur Parlour and determine what happened to his mysterious missing wife.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The Agatha Christie Book Club is back, this time on a nostalgic cruise aboard the SS Orient, a replica steamship which has more in common with a certain train journey than even Alicia Finlay could have imagined. First a dead body shows up in one cabin, then a powerful figure receives a threatening note before being tossed overboard in the dead of night. When a third passenger is found stabbed in the back, the book club have no time to lose. The ship berths in less than 24 hours and a murderer may walk free.

'With no CCTV to help, a shipful of shifty passengers, and more red herrings than a seafood platter, the book club friends must do a Poirot and find the right solution before journey's end.'

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'It was supposed to a frivolous night out. The champagne was flowing, the rugs were arranged, and the Agatha Christie Book Club had settled in to watch their favourite mystery Evil Under the Sun on the moonlit screen above.

'Yet it all comes to a crashing halt when a woman’s lifeless body is discovered lying between the jumble of picnic baskets and blankets. She has been strangled and discarded like an empty champagne bottle.

'How did no one see the killer lurking? How did no one hear the victim’s cries? And how could the Agatha Christie Book Club have been lounging just metres away and missed the whole event?!

'In their latest and most complex puzzle yet, the book club friends unite to solve the unlikeliest of crimes, one that takes place in a public park, with scores of witnesses and not a single motive or suspect in sight.

'When the local detectives fail to progress the case, the book club friends do what they do best, channelling their inner-Miss Marple to help out. What eventuates is a battle of wits—and wills—between the NSW Homicide Squad and our nosey amateur sleuths, with newcomer Detective Inspector Liam Jackson caught firmly in the middle.

'Will the amateur detectives solve the crime first? Do the experts beat them to the punch? And how soon will they discover that the key to it all lies deep within an Agatha Christie novel?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'REMOTE LYLE'S LODGE: The Book Club gathers to discuss Christie's bestselling mystery—the one about a madman bumping off his guests. Very soon, life begins to imitate the book…

'First one person is murdered, then another, and then a mighty bushfire ignites in the rainforest below, cutting them off with their own "madman" on the loose.

'Has one of the gang turned rogue? Or is it one of four new members, each hiding a secret from the group?

'ONE NEW MEMBER IS AN IMPOSTER.
'ONE HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE.
'ONE IS HUNTING FOR SOMETHING.
'AND ONE WANTS REVENGE.

'Using their collective wisdom and a trusty bushfire survival plan, they must unravel each newcomer's secret to unmask the real killer and survive the book club from hell.

'But this time not all of them will get out alive.

'ONCE THERE WERE NINE… SOON THERE WILL BE SIX… BUT WHICH BOOK CLUB MEMBERS WILL SURVIVE?'

Source : publisher's blurb