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Continue reading →: A Quick Betwixtmas Project: The Chunkiest Cowl Ever!
Finished for Friday – a quick betwixtmas project, the chunkiest cowl ever!
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Continue reading →: Review: Murder Mindfully – Karsten Dusse
Freedom means not having to do what you don’t want to do. A defence lawyer for a brutal crime boss, Bjorn is caught in a downward spiral. His marriage isn’t happy – their daughter is “not so much the child of their dreams but the child of his wife’s plans”. …
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Continue reading →: 2024: The Year of 371 Books
Last year I read 371 books. That’s a lot of books. There have been a lot of comments about the number of books I read, and I know it’s a privilege that I get to be able to read so much. But here’s how, and to some extent, why.
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Continue reading →: Helle’s Hound – Oskar Jensen
Fresh from his adventures in a country mansion in Northumbria, Art History academic Torben Helle is back, and this time his canvas is the city of London. His mentor Dame Charlotte Lazerton is found dead at the foot of her stairs, and Helle suspects there’s more to her death than…
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Continue reading →: Books I can’t wait to read – early 2025
I can’t wait for all the new books that 2025 will bring – here are 10 that I’m looking forward to
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Continue reading →: A Midwinter Murder – Verity Bright
The 20th instalment (how is it 20 already!) sees Verity Bright send Lady Eleanor Swift up to Yorkshire for a Christmas shooting party at a country mansion, hosted by the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke. 20 minutes after arriving (well, 18 minutes by the reliable butler Clifford’s exact timing), the Duke’s secretary…
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Continue reading →: City of Destruction – Vaseem Khan
The fifth installment of Vaseem Khan’s Malabar House series opens in explosive style – an assassination attempt of a political figure is foiled and Inspector Persis Wadia’s British colleague, Archie Blackfinch, is left in critical condition. But between being shot and dying, the would-be assassin whispered a message to Persis…
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Continue reading →: A Most Malicious Messenger – Katherine Black
May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she—and everyone else in the shop—receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation—and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead. I requested a copy of this book…
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Continue reading →: Murder in New York – Helena Dixon
“It’s so aggravating. It’s not like being at home where we would know everyone or there would be other people we could ask. Here, everything is against us; the weather, the city, the time of year” Kitty Bryant and her husband Matt have received word that her errant father is…
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Continue reading →: A Deadly Legacy – E V Hunter
We return to Hopgood Hall after numerous murders, to find that this time death has come close to home. The Hall’s owners, Drew and Cheryl are mourning the death of Drew’s brother, Frank. Frank sold his share of the Hall to Drew and left to start a new life in…