I recently read Five Little Pigs, by Agatha Christie. I won't provide any background information on the author because I've mentioned it in my first two posts on books written by her. This book stars the petit Belgian detective Hercule Poirot - he is hired by a young woman to investigate her mother's imprisonment - from 16 years ago. Basically, the mother supposedly murdered her husband after he was having an affair with a young woman, but she wrote a letter to her daughter shortly before dying, (to be opened upon her daughter's 21st birthday) claiming she was innocent. The reason the title is part of a famous nursery rhyme is because there are five suspects that Hercule investigates (besides the deceased Mrs. Caroline, the supposed muderer), and with each of them he tries to find the phrase that fits - e.g. the well-off, slightly plump, jovial man, Mr. Phillip, is this little pig went to the market. However, I'm not even halfway through the book. In this time, Poirot has only questioned 2.5 people, which still leaves a lot of unknowns. As for recommendations, I would just repeat what I've written for all my other posts on this author, so simply find an older one. However, this book is losing its appeal to me. Why, you may ask? Well, to put it simply, I've read 5 books by this author in about a month and a half, and I've basically become fed up, because each book is more of the same - somebody dies, Poirot questions a bunch of people, then with his unprecedented detective skills, reveals the person who you least suspect to be the criminal as the criminal. Some authors, I can read their books for an unfathomable eternity (ahem, J.K. Rowling). But alas, some, like this one, I cannot. So, if you find yourself to be a person who often times finds himself reading series, I suggest you take breaks when reading Agatha Christie.