Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (March 2019)

This was the first book that launched our Book Club in January 2018.  Since then we have grown as close friends.  We are happy of what we've become.  We have gotten to know each others from members to close friends. 

We are going to be changing it up a bit.  We'll be watching the movie from 2017 with our husbands as a date night.  Amber Campbell has opened up her home for the event.  At this time it will be announce on when we are having this. You are welcome to read or re-read the book.  This date night with be a dinner and a movie. 

 

Movie / Book Choice for March 2019
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Movie - 2017)
Chosen by Amber Campbell

Summary...

On the book:
What more can a mystery addict desire than a much-loathed murder victim found aboard the luxurious Orient Express with multiple stab wounds, thirteen likely suspects, an incomparably brilliant detective in Hercule Poirot, and the most ingenious crime ever conceived?

Cast from the 2017 Movie (I'm super excited, A LOT of excellent actors):

Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot

Tom Bateman as Bouc

Penélope Cruz as Pilar Estravados

Willem Dafoe as Gerhard Hardman

Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff

Johnny Depp as Edward Ratchett

Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen

Derek Jacobi as Edward Henry Masterman

Leslie Odom Jr. as Dr. Arbuthnot

Michelle Pfeiffer as Caroline Hubbard

Daisy Ridley as Miss Mary Debenham

Marwan Kenzari as Pierre Michel

Olivia Colman as Hildegarde Schmidt

Lucy Boynton as Countess Helena Andrenyi

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Biniamino Marquez

Sergei Polunin as Count Rudolph Andrenyi

Movie Trailer for Murder on the Orient Express 2017.

 

Murder on the Orient Express full movie 2001.

 

Audiobook Version.

 

 

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (February 2019)

 

Book Choice for February 2019
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Chosen by Jamie West

Summary...

A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.

Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.

Video of Author talking about the book.

 

Review about the book.

 

 

Note from Jamie West: I found it to be like The Secret Garden by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett.  The Secret Garden is a public domain book and it's free to read.

Audiobook version of The Secret Garden.

 

The Secret Garden Movie in 1987.