Death on the Island by Eliza Reid

It’s a dark and stormy night and a diplomat has been poisoned.  It doesn’t end there.  The dark and stormy night is on a small island off the coast of Iceland.  Death on the Island by Eliza Reid is a twisty who dunnit.  Jane is the wife of the Canadian Ambassador and she, along with her husband and half a dozen others are at a swanky dinner when the Ambassador’s Deputy is poisoned and her husband points the finger at Jane’s husband.  Though they are going through a rough patch, she still knows he's innocent and has to figure out who on this very small island, in a restaurant with less than ten people in it, has committed murder.  Was it the Chef?  A CEO? His wife? The list is small and there may be a bigger picture that Jane doesn’t see. An Agatha Christie tribute that you shouldn’t miss.  Written by the first lady of Iceland.

If a tiny group of suspects and a murder nobody can escape sounds like your kind of mystery, read The Decagon House Murders next. It gives you another deliciously limited pool of possible killers and plenty of reasons to suspect every single one of them. Read the review →

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