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The Ex
A psychological thriller that will keep you up all night.
What if you suspect an ex lover is a killer? A killer after you.
Anna, a beautiful Austrian model with her face on billboards, in magazines and on TV has nowhere to hide.
Too afraid to tell the whole story no one knows exactly who Anna’s ex lover is, where he is, or what he’s capable of.
A year after Anna’s disappearance as a public figure, guests arrive one by one by cable car to a luxurious but remote Alpine mansion.
There are pictures of Anna on the walls of every room, shots of her at all ages, a museum for her career but no Anna to greet them as their host. With a storm fast approaching it soon becomes clear that they have stepped into a psychopath’s fantasy. A psychopath posing as one of the guests in the house...
The Ex (64,000 words) is an edgy reinvention of the world’s bestselling mystery, And Then There Were None. The Ex will appeal to fans of the Agatha Christie classics as well as to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fanatics.
What if you suspect an ex lover is a killer? A killer after you.
Anna, a beautiful Austrian model with her face on billboards, in magazines and on TV has nowhere to hide.
Too afraid to tell the whole story no one knows exactly who Anna’s ex lover is, where he is, or what he’s capable of.
A year after Anna’s disappearance as a public figure, guests arrive one by one by cable car to a luxurious but remote Alpine mansion.
There are pictures of Anna on the walls of every room, shots of her at all ages, a museum for her career but no Anna to greet them as their host. With a storm fast approaching it soon becomes clear that they have stepped into a psychopath’s fantasy. A psychopath posing as one of the guests in the house...
The Ex (64,000 words) is an edgy reinvention of the world’s bestselling mystery, And Then There Were None. The Ex will appeal to fans of the Agatha Christie classics as well as to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fanatics.
370 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2012
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May 11, 2012
This is an intriguing book based on Agatha Christie's 'And then there were none'.
I read this book on my kindle and really wished I had the book. There were lots of characters which I found difficult to keep straight in my head. In places, this book was really gripping, chilling and I thought the tension built well. However I also found it difficult to follow in places and to be honest I didn't like the end.
Overall I'm glad I read this book and I appreciated the references to Agatha Christie.
I read this book on my kindle and really wished I had the book. There were lots of characters which I found difficult to keep straight in my head. In places, this book was really gripping, chilling and I thought the tension built well. However I also found it difficult to follow in places and to be honest I didn't like the end.
Overall I'm glad I read this book and I appreciated the references to Agatha Christie.
October 23, 2012
This novel claimed to be a modern version of probably my favourite novel (Agatha Christie's, And Then There Were None). So my expectations were set quite high for this. The mystery has a few structural flaws, but overall I thought this was a pretty good effort at reproducing the suspense of Christie's novel. The characters die one by one in a convincing manner with realistic reactions to the escalating horror of their predicament.
In this respect, The Ex is faithful to the novel it is paying homage to. The plot is suitably paced. I read the whole two hundred odd pages in two sittings. The cliff hanger ending I didn't like as it means buying another book. This is something I seem to be experiencing in a lot of Kindle books I’ve bought of late.
I liked the switching of characters which built tension effectively, although I found it difficult to keep track of them all in the beginning and a little bit jarring.
I would like to know where more novels like And Then There Were None are available. I read a book a while back called Jitter Joint which had a similar plot to The Ex.
Nine Man's Murder by Eric Keith (which I have also reviewed on Goodreads) is the only other book with a plot similar to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and of similar quality to The Ex and Jitter Joint.
But I guess this is a post.
Overall, The Ex is a page turner with a few stylistic faults, but which has a heartbeat at the centre of the novel that invokes successfully the spirit of Agatha Christie's masterpiece in a new and exciting setting and places it into a modern context.
In this respect, The Ex is faithful to the novel it is paying homage to. The plot is suitably paced. I read the whole two hundred odd pages in two sittings. The cliff hanger ending I didn't like as it means buying another book. This is something I seem to be experiencing in a lot of Kindle books I’ve bought of late.
I liked the switching of characters which built tension effectively, although I found it difficult to keep track of them all in the beginning and a little bit jarring.
I would like to know where more novels like And Then There Were None are available. I read a book a while back called Jitter Joint which had a similar plot to The Ex.
Nine Man's Murder by Eric Keith (which I have also reviewed on Goodreads) is the only other book with a plot similar to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and of similar quality to The Ex and Jitter Joint.
But I guess this is a post.
Overall, The Ex is a page turner with a few stylistic faults, but which has a heartbeat at the centre of the novel that invokes successfully the spirit of Agatha Christie's masterpiece in a new and exciting setting and places it into a modern context.
September 20, 2012
This book is horrible, it barely deserves one star. I stupidly read it based on one 5-star Amazon.com review which said, "A great plot twist at the end when the killer's true identity was revealed," which is comical, because the killer is NOT revealed in this book. It ends, "To be continued."
The story is supposed to be a modern, "And Then There Were None," but it has very little in common with that suburb book. It is one of the most poorly written stories I've read in a while. Aside from the grammatical errors, it just makes no sense. The story jumps around constantly and is almost impossible to follow. References are constantly made with no context whatsoever. The ONLY reason I finished this book was the hope that the reveal of the killer would be actually interesting, but since that didn't even happen, reading this was a complete waste of my time.
I'm convinced that the 5-star Amazon reviewer did not actually read this book and/or is the author.
The story is supposed to be a modern, "And Then There Were None," but it has very little in common with that suburb book. It is one of the most poorly written stories I've read in a while. Aside from the grammatical errors, it just makes no sense. The story jumps around constantly and is almost impossible to follow. References are constantly made with no context whatsoever. The ONLY reason I finished this book was the hope that the reveal of the killer would be actually interesting, but since that didn't even happen, reading this was a complete waste of my time.
I'm convinced that the 5-star Amazon reviewer did not actually read this book and/or is the author.
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April 14, 2014
Didn't like the end.
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