Sometimes the most engaging puzzle a thriller has to offer is deducing the calculations that went into creating it—what a colleague of mine used to refer to as the “plot math.” Ruth Ware’s 2016 novel The Woman in Cabin 10—now adapted as a film for Netflix by Simon Stone (The Dig)—became a bestseller by combining a classic Agatha Christie–style manor-house mystery …
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