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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
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September 15 marks the birthday of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. The #readchristie2026 pick for September is Endless Night, a book Agatha Christie herself considered one of her best works, and it seems quite appropriate to post about it today. Endless Night is a difficult book to review without spoilers, because a lot of…
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Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog invites you to post about what books are on your Goodreads “to read” lists or TBR lists, the progress you have made on your current books and reading challenges, and any other bookish news! It is time for another update for the Autumn Book Bingo by…
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Today I’m joining The Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz with an update on my Sunday Shelf Exploration challenge to myself to find and read books from my out-of-control digital collection. Since my last Sunday Shelf Exploration post, I’ve read three of the books I featured, Unnatural Causes by T. E. Harkins, The Unlikely Murder Club by…
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Many thanks to @taherasplace for tagging me in the One Word Title challenge by Dee @chapter1.page1 for the #oldskoolchallengeclub. I had a look through my ebook collection and came up with these 10 books. Alice by Gary Gautier From Goodreads: Alice’s commune seems a small hippie utopia in a dreamlike forest, but the utopian surface…
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“Died of fright.” Mrs. Harrington’s voice sounds faraway. “The phantom. The Belgravia Phantom.” Ad/PR. Many thanks to Ellis Blackwood for this ebook. The Belgravia Phantom is a historical mystery set in Victorian London, featuring the Quill siblings lead by the eldest, Kate Quill, who does her best to keep a roof over her siblings’ heads.…
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The day Ritchie moved me into Egret’s Lof, I thought that was it, I was done for. When Madeline Delarouse’s children, Richie and Eliza, convince her to move into Egret’s Loft, a posh Florida retirement community, she is convinced that her life there will be nothing but boredom and monotony. She couldn’t possible have been…
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People’d live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work every day, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear. Book 21 in the Discworld series, Book 4 in the City Watch subseries. Sam Vimes has survived…
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Sergeant, you must send a man at once! There’s a burglar in my house, and how he’s dead, because I hit him with my poker! But one can kill burglars, surely? A historical mystery with a Golden Age feel, set in 1935 in London. Spinster artist Felicia Adams surprises a burglar in her home, and…
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Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog invites you to post about what books are on your Goodreads “to read” lists or TBR lists, the progress you have made on your current books and reading challenges, and any other bookish news! With summer officially behind us, it is time for my first update…
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