Category: Vintage Crime

There were two major influences that led to me writing my latest novel, Nine Lives, and book in which nine strangers each receive a letter that has marked them for death. One is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, mentioned numerous times in my novel, in which ten strangers are lured to an island and murdered off one by one. The other book is slightly less famous: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark. In that novel, a number of …