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Book Review of Nine Lives

Nine Lives
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A letter arrives in the mail with no return address. Inside is a single piece of paper with nine names. Each name on the list received this letter. No one knows what to make of it until one of the people on the list is murdered. The next day another person on the list is dead. These people are strangers. They have no connections that they know of. A detective who worked the first murder is trying to determine who sent the letters, while an FBI agent is trying to contact every name on the list which includes her own.

This was an interesting premise. The story is patterned after Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Each chapter is devoted to one of the people on the list. Each time I wasn't sure if they'd be alive at the end of the chapter.

I thought the ending was a bit of a letdown. The reasoning for the murders just didn't work for me. But it was an entertaining read nonetheless. My rating: 4 Stars.