The Dark Side of the Road

Simon R. Green
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The Dark Side of the Road

dustydigger
2/12/2016
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A bit of an oddity this one,a sort of cozy mystery a la Agatha Christie's And Then There were None as a snowed in group at a christmas country house party are picked off one by one. But the protagonist is an alien who crashlanded on earth in 1963 and never ages, and the villain is a supernatural creature! Pleasant enough fun, but I was disconcerted by the way characters would lose a son, a mother, a father, and just sort of shrug it off with a "oh well, we were never really close". That was weirder than any of the action. Oh well, it was a nice light fluff read, quite short, perfect for relaxing on a cold winter afternoon, but certainly no brain-stretcher!