Every encounter was strained and uncomfortable and it set me on edge as a reader in a way that I didn’t expect. As I said, most of them were awful people which makes them even more interesting and Christie managed to create a sense of tension within the novel just through the character relationships. It could have been any one of them.Įach character was well-written and Christie gave them all unique personalities and many, many characters flaws. The plot was complex, perhaps a little far-fetched for some, and most of the suspects were horrible people.
Louise is scared for her life – although some of the company believe she’s just being dramatic – and Amy Leatheran knows that something is terribly wrong. Set in Iraq, this novel focuses upon a group of archaeologists and their spouses and our narrator, a nurse, has been employed to look after the wife of the lead archaeologist, Dr Leidner. I can’t remember any specific moments within the novel to warn about but it has been a while since I read it so this is a general warning. Murder in Mesopotamia was my first Christie read of 2021 and (for once) I actually guessed who the culprit was! Christie made me doubt myself a couple of times, mainly because the theory was so far fetched, but I was right in the end.įirstly, although I feel like I say this in every single Agatha Christie review, please expect some racist language when you’re reading this book.
But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late… In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. Summary: An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq… It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner.
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