Book Review
Daisy Darker: An ingeniously structured mystery fails to amount to much more
Reading Alice Feeney’s fifth novel feels more like solving an equation or following a game than delving into a story
At one point in Alice Feeney’s fifth novel Daisy Darker, our eponymous protagonist tells us that for lack of real-life companions her “childhood friends were Agatha Christie and Stephen King”. It’s an unsubtle nod to the prevailing influences behind this book, backed up later by a reference to Christie’s classic 1939 novel And Then There Were None. Daisy Darker pays homage to that bestselling mystery by also featuring a group of characters in a house ...