The Appeal: The smash-hit bestseller

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I'll admit to some confusion amongst the characters as there are many players involved and I did have a hard time keeping them all straight. After all, the topics were both serious and authentic in a thought-provoking way without giving up even a bit of the mystery. In keeping with the moral ambiguity raised elsewhere in the text the ending is engaging in the way it does and does not parcel out justice.

Though perhaps you should make sure said cap is your best houndstooth deerstalker, so you can Sherlock your way through this clever mystery. I know Hallett has found lots of success with this book and clearly she has a mind for intricate plotting, but this one simply wasn't appeal-ing (sorry, I had to do it) to me. Moreover, we are witnesses to Femi and Charlotte as they debate various aspects of the narrative and I found it interesting to see that they were more sceptical of some of the ideas espoused by a particular character, and I was left wondering if I had been taken in by them too much. The broad ranging plot takes us far and wide and into a number of areas which initially seems daunting in scale. A community theatre troupe, led by Martin and wife Helen, are brought together by something other than the love of the stage when Martin and Helen's young daughter Poppy falls ill.This is my third book by Hallett, and I absolutely love her style where you can sniff through mails and messages and transcripts, to try and solve a intelligent mystery.

Though it wasn’t difficult to figure out who the culprit could be, some of the facts revealed in the process came as a surprise.

There was a real sense of verisimilitude and there are lines which will remind us of people we have encountered in real life.

The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife Helen, the play’s star. These elements made my reading experiences frustrating to the point where I stopped caring about who was whom, and all that I was reading for was the reveal of the murderer. Or to use a simile, the threads of this story are like a lot of cars all racing towards a central collision point and you don’t know what the fall out will be, who will survive the wreckage. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I got the impression that the story sometimes had to fit the messages and that made for some weird and elaborate mails or whatsapps. the victim, the motive, the accused, the real killer—all of that is for the reader to uncover alongside these intrepid investigators as they wade through SO much correspondence full of gossip, red herrings, secrets, lies, unreliable witnesses, and the everyday bitchery of people who never expected their private communications would be seen by anyone other than the intended recipient. Described by The Sunday Times as 'A modern Christie', this is an extraordinarily inventive crime debut in which the reader is challenged to solve the crime.