Luke Fitzwilliam, a recently retired policeman looking forward to living on his hard-earned pension. Could not believe Miss Pinkerton, an elderly lady he met on the train who was on her way to Scotland Yard; to report a string of several murders in the small village of Wychwood. Or her speculation as to knowing who the next victim would be. “It is very easy to kill, so long as no one suspects you.”

Words from Miss Pinkerton that Fitzwilliam would rattle back and forth in his mind for weeks to come. He had attributed her story to a vivid and wild imagination, but within a few hours, she herself had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Merely, a random accident, or yet another suspicious death?

Within the first 10 pages, I was thinking "There it is, Christie is telling me exactly who did it.".Then the, somewhat, dim-witted retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam, begins his investigation and Bam! 100 pages later I find myself thinking "It’s clear as mud who did it now!". Christie craftily uses the character of Fitzwilliam to pull all kinds of red herrings into the story.

Bringing an organic human element to the story as Fitzwilliam himself jumps to a few conclusions without a proper or complete investigation. And yet, by the time you reach page 150 you begin to second guess your decision on the murder and await some twist. Christie does not disappoint. In the end, you find yourself enjoying the bumbling Fitzwilliam investigation. He doesn’t appear to have any clues as to a solution and general difficulty with social skills.

No murder mystery is without its love affair and Murder is Easy is no acceptation as the smart love interest, Bridget, to none other than Fitzwilliam; steps in and in her own bold way solves the mystery. This is when the shock and the twist you had been expecting appears and you all but want to throw your hat when you realize you were wrong since page 10. Tricked yet again, but delighted at the fact.

Overall I stand by giving this book a 3.5/5 rating. The book was for the most part, slow and not very deep as far as investigation and character development. Definitely a book from a different generation. Though it still holds strong to modern literature it is a little too simple. With a 3.7/5 from Goodreads; and an average Amazon rating of 4/5 it is easy to see why Agatha Christie will, perhaps, for all time be The Queen of Mystery.