BOOKS: Thrill, suspense in ‘The Dead Came Calling’

'The Dead Came Calling' by Nducu wa Ngugi. The novel uses cliff-hangers and suspense to keep you guessing the next twist. PHOTO COURTESY

Nothing is what it seems. This aphorism seems to aptly summarise Nducu wa Ngugi’s new novel The Dead Came Calling.

For, while it has all the makings of a whodunit, it eschews the well-known structure of the traditional murder mystery, where detectives spend time peeling away onion-like layers of evidence, until the culprits are revealed near the end.