Not perfect, but still a really good read that I enjoyed over all. Those points aside it was a good read with a great setting, though the chapters in Venice had less impact for me than those on the train. The other problem was these past events were all written in italics and I find reading too much in italics annoying. Maybe their affair just did not convince me. Jack was absolutely selfish and Adele too stupid for too long. My biggest problem was the past love affair between Adele and Jack. Characters on the whole are well developed. She was a breath of fresh air and Stephanie was also a sweetie. These characters make up the stories in this book. Meanwhile Imogen is involved in a secret relationship with Danny who has a prison past and who is not the type her friends would approve of. For her granddaughter Imogene’s 30th birthday Adele gives her a ticket for the Orient Express, and a painting that has played a meaningful part in the story of Jack and Adele. Then there is Adele and Jack, the couple who started their love affair years earlier. Another couple is Sylvie, an aged well known screen star and Riley a famed photographer.
There are also Simon and Stephanie, who has moved in with him, and his two teenagers from Simon’s marriage to Tanya. Archie never expected to win but he is bound by a promise to Jay to go on the trip. The thing is Archie never entered the competition. The winning couple is Emmie Dixon and Archie Harbinson. When they are enraged they have great strength." He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.Through a competition, the matchmaking service Not On the Shelf pairs up a man and woman for a trip on the Orient Express. "C'est une femme," said the chef de train again. It is as though somebody had shut his eyes and then in a frenzy struck blindly again and again." Some have glanced off, doing hardly any damage. "The blows seem to have been delivered haphazard and at random. "It was clearly not a scientific crime," said Poirot. "It is not my desire to speak technically-that is only confusing but I can assure you that two of the blows were delivered with such forces as to drive them through hard belts of bone and muscle." "She must have been a very strong woman," he said. Constantine screwed up his face thoughtfully. "It is a woman," said the chef de train, speaking for the first time.
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