![]() ![]() But when I finished and reread the book, I did suddenly realize how much this kind of structure owed to, particularly, Agatha Christie. And I didn’t consciously channel that when I was writing. ![]() ![]() “I read a huge amount of it as a kid, you know, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. ![]() “I love classic crime,” she told NPR’s David Greene during her “Dark Wood” publicity tour. Unsurprisingly, Ware said last year that she was a big fan of the golden-age mystery writers. (My favorite thing about that book, which centers on an amnesiac and a bachelorette party gone very wrong, was learning that the British call such gatherings “hen parties.” One London reviewer described the story as “the hen party from hell,” which makes you think things might end in nuggets and dipping sauce.) Both of Ware’s novels resemble classic locked-door mysteries: Her first takes place in a remote English country house and her latest on a cruise ship in the North Sea - a horrifying enough prospect for some of us even before the protagonist witnesses a murder and is accused of losing her mind. Agatha Redux: The British crime writer Ruth Ware has two best sellers this week - her new novel, “The Woman in Cabin 10,” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 4, while her debut, “In a Dark, Dark Wood,” remains No. 8 on the trade paperback list after nine weeks. ![]()
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