Casada con el prestigioso arqueólogo británico Max Mallowan, Agatha Christie tuvo la oportunidad de recorrer, en los años treinta del pasado siglo, todo Oriente Medio acompañando a su esposo en diversas campañas de excavaciones arqueológicas en Siria e Irak. Como dice la propia autora, esta obra es la respuesta a las innumerables preguntas que sus amistades y conocidos le hacían acerca del tipo de vida que el matrimonio llevaba en esos extraños parajes. Las peripecias y dificultades que este grupo de occidentales afronta estoicamente, al tiempo que la enriquecedora convivencia con los nativos, son narradas por la gran escritora con toda la agudeza propia de la hipercivilizada Gran Bretaña. Glamour, aventuras en escenarios exóticos —que esta autora incorporó en algunas de sus más célebres novelas—, ingentes cantidades de té e insuperable humor inglés se conjugan en este inolvidable fresco del mundo de entreguerras.

An excellent addition to the series.
Nearly is a ghost story.
A healthy dose of religion, mystery, thrills thrown in.
This really is an amazing book series. ( )

Título original: Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946)

Connolly is in fine form with this book. A fantastic piece of work delicately blending the thriller, horror and the supernatural genres. A great read! ( )

I read a lot of books, but if I had to pick just let's say five books to read during one year would the latest Charlie Parker book be among them. It is strange to think back to the first time I read a Charlie Parker book (not from the beginning) and how I liked the book but never thought that one day would come when it would be like Christmas every time a new book would be released.

So, how was A Game of Ghosts? Well, let me put it this way. This is a series that keep on being great, this is the fifteenth book and I loved it from the first page until the last and I both wanted to end the book and at the same time did I not want it to end.

In A Game of Ghosts is Charlie Parker contacted by FBI agent Edgar Ross to track down the missing private detective Jaycob Eklund. However, as usual, it's not an ordinary case, Eklund is obsessed with ghost and his investigation into a missing man have led him to the Brethren, a group of people both of this world and next and Parker, who has a track record of being something of a destroyer of evil people and groups is starting to get too close to them for their liking. And, the Brethren has reason to worry because The Collector is also interested in the case. And, he's not a man to cross. And as usual, has Parker his faithful friends Louis and Angel to help him out.

A Game of Ghosts is a fantastic book. I was deeply worried about the life of my favorite characters while reading the book, and the passing of one of them was both a surprise and something that saddened me. I loved the part Parker's daughters Sam and Jennifer played in the book and the ending made me crave more. Definitely one of the best books I have read this year!

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! ( )