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Celebrating Agatha Christie’s birthday today with a review of her autobiography, a collection of stories from Agatha Christie’s own life from her earliest childhood memories to her later years. Recommended for anyone who wants to know more about the name behind the many books. Agatha Christie’s autobiography is not a book about the novels she…
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Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century, a place in the grips of a Puritan wave of violence and punishment as suspected sinners, witches and blasphemers were tortured and killed in the name of righteous persecution. Boston, present day. Detective Martina “Marti” Zucco is following in her late father’s footsteps, working on the force.…
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Book 1 in the Jane Christie series. 50 year old Jane Christie is obssessed with two things, reading murder mysteries and reminiscing about her late husband Gerry. She is reclusive, lonely and seemingly incapable of moving on with her life. But after a fall from a roof leaves her in a coma, she wakes up…
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Book 1 in the Aaron Falk series. In the small farming town of Kiewarra in Australia, the Hadler family is found brutally murdered, with the infant daughter being the only survivor. Aaron Falk, Federal Police investigator in Melbourne, is called back to town for the Hadler funeral. As a child, Aaron was best friends with…
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Book 1 in the California Bookshop Mystery series. After being dumped by her boyfriend and business partner, Scarlett has single-handedly managed to achieve her dream of having a bookstore by the seashore in sunny Southern California. But her cozy bookworm routines are suddenly interrupted when she finds a dead body under the pier near her…
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Book 1 in the Trouble in Paradise! series. Plum Lockhart is a brash travel magazine editor in New York. When she looses her job, she decides to take up an offer as a villa broker on a Caribbean resort island. What may sound like a dream location to many, soon reveals itself to be quite…
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Book 1 in the A Catskill Summer Resort Mystery series Summer of 1953. Elizabeth’s mother Olivia is a retired Broadway and Hollywood dancer. When her third husband emptied her bank accounts, she was left with nothing but the Haggerman’s Catskills Resort and called Elizabeth to help her run the place. And by “help” she means…
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Book 1 in the Thursday Murder Club series. On the surface Cooper’s Chase is a peaceful and sleepy luxury retirement village full of idling senior citizens, set in the tranquil surroundings of a former convent for nuns. But when a murder occurs nearby, the Thursday Murder Club springs into action, and the local police officers…
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Book 1 in the Ådalen series. Written in Swedish by Tove Alsterdal and translated into English by Alice Menzies When an old man is found dead in his home, a 23 year old murder case is brought back into the light. The dead man’s son, Olof, was convicted of the rape and murder of teenage…
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The creation of a serial killer is described in a strangely poetic fashion in My Men, written in Norwegian by Victoria Kielland and translated into English by Damion Searls. When the young Brynhilde is forsaken by her lover, she embarks on a journey from her homeland of Norway to America, hoping to find a new…
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