Critic Reviews

Agatha Christie-meets-Lost shenanigans.

The murder mystery stuff is satisfactory, and could lead to unexpected reveals. But in Nine Bodies, it’s the suspicion and what’s left unsaid among its plane crash survivors that has us hanging with them in their jungle clearing.

Anthony Horowitz’s thriller is reasonably entertaining. And it is interesting, structurally. .... The trouble is that at no point do you feel remotely convinced that this is the Mexican wilderness.