This week's Book of the Week

Every week we in the BGS Library are going to choose a book for you to consider ordering through our amazing Click and Collect system! This week I thought we would pick a classic written by the Queen of Crime writing herself – Agatha Christie. For those of you who have never read Agatha Christie I strongly recommend that you give her a go. Her relatively short novels have so many subtle twists and red herrings in the plot that I rarely ever guess the culprit before the big reveal at the end. She has written over 70 novels but I have chosen a slightly less well known one this week.

The Pale Horse was recently adapted for television and as such was changed rather a lot. However, that only makes it more imperative that you read the original for yourselves and decide which version you like best. This is one of Christie’s more mysterious books with a hint of paranormal in there. When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the body looking for something that obviously was very important to them. What was it? And what had the dying woman just a few hours earlier confided to him? Murder or Black Magic? You decide!

Mrs Godden