2019 book 11

Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
I randomly bought this last month when it went on e-book sale, and the timing was fortuitous, because it turns out a movie is in the works starring Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, and Jodie Comer! YESSSS. In this Inspector Poirot mystery, the man finds himself on a tour of Egypt with a large cast of suspicious characters--and much of the action is centered on a rich young newlywed, whose husband was previously her best friend's fiance. The murder doesn't take place till almost halfway through, but Christie does a good job building tension and throwing out red herrings leading up to it. I will note that there is some inevitable Orientalism here, and some of the characters say racist things in the way of genteel white British people of the 1930s. And the mystery itself isn't too hard to figure out, though it's still a fairly satisfying resolution (I disliked the very end though--Poirot playing God is a bit much). B+.