Jaclyn Goldis is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and NYU School of Law. She practiced estate planning law at a large Chicago firm for seven years before leaving her job to travel the world and write novels. After culling her possessions into only what would fit in a backpack, she traveled for over a year until settling in Tel Aviv, where she can often be found writing from cafés near the beach.
Goldis is the author of The Chateau, The Main Character, and The Safari.
At CrimeReads the author tagged six destination thrillers, including:
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie.Read about the other entries on the list.
No roundup of international destination mysteries would be complete without at least one of the several epic, eligible Christies. Appointment with Deathis one of the Queen of Mystery’s most atmospheric and exotic forays, set in both the Old City of Jerusalem and Petra, Jordan. Inspired by Christie’s real-life Middle Eastern expeditions with her archaeologist husband, the featured locales—with their historic and religious backdrops, awe-inspiring, red-rock ruins, warm hospitality, and remote desert landscapes—are infrequently portrayed in modern mysteries and thus all the more intriguing. Here, our favorite Belgian detective must solve the murder of the most detestable woman he’d ever met. Petra’s harsh beauty and remoteness heightens the claustrophobia and serves to exacerbate the characters’ emotional unraveling. Of course, twists and turns abound, while the murderer remains cleverly concealed until Poirot’s little gray cells perform their ingenious analysis of psychological motivations and catalyze a most astonishing unveiling.
--Marshal Zeringue
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