Agatha Christie, meet Eva Jurczyk.
Agatha, a writer with a huge inspiration block needs to step back from her daily life: away from her husband and son and meet a friend in Montreal. She boarded the 6:40 Via Rail passenger train on time. Now on her way to what is expected a 5 hours ride but the weather had other intent…a raging snow storm soon engulfed the travellers. Unlucky, the train breaks down pushing Agatha’s plans in question.…. Then the unthinkable happens, a passenger is found dead….setting chaos in motion throughout the car.
I think the whole premise was ridiculous and unbelievable. The way the man was murdered and how the aftermath developed was insane. We have multiple characters: the car attendant responsibilities are to provide service and attend to passengers’ comfort Dorcas was at total lost when the train and communication stopped. Finch was the poor soul who was bitten by a spider and died, Jeff an elderly man was stupid enough to leave the security of the train by breaking a window (windows have latches) to wander in an unknown field in a snow storm ( no sane Canadian would do that). Then you have a mother and son so messed up it was laughable. To put the sherry on the Sunday, a woman with an axe to grind against Agatha had her day….
15 hours later they made it to Kingston 289 km from destination… boy I will pass on a train ride next time I plan to go to Toronto or back from there.
The flow worked pretty well and kept a steady pace. Although a weird story, it was interesting enough to have kept me captive till the very last page. But to spoil a story give it an iffy ending. It was time to close the book…
I have strong feeling about the characters…none were appealing…Ms Jurczyk populates her narrative with flat characters ….point final.
This is not Agatha Christie “Murder on the Orient Express” far from it.
I received this ARC from Poisoned Penn Press via Netgalley for my thoughts: this is the way I see it.
I think the whole premise was ridiculous and unbelievable. The way the man was murdered and how the aftermath developed was insane. We have multiple characters: the car attendant responsibilities are to provide service and attend to passengers’ comfort Dorcas was at total lost when the train and communication stopped. Finch was the poor soul who was bitten by a spider and died, Jeff an elderly man was stupid enough to leave the security of the train by breaking a window (windows have latches) to wander in an unknown field in a snow storm ( no sane Canadian would do that). Then you have a mother and son so messed up it was laughable. To put the sherry on the Sunday, a woman with an axe to grind against Agatha had her day….
15 hours later they made it to Kingston 289 km from destination… boy I will pass on a train ride next time I plan to go to Toronto or back from there.
The flow worked pretty well and kept a steady pace. Although a weird story, it was interesting enough to have kept me captive till the very last page. But to spoil a story give it an iffy ending. It was time to close the book…
I have strong feeling about the characters…none were appealing…Ms Jurczyk populates her narrative with flat characters ….point final.
This is not Agatha Christie “Murder on the Orient Express” far from it.
I received this ARC from Poisoned Penn Press via Netgalley for my thoughts: this is the way I see it.
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