book-reviews
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“Haven’t we always looked out for each other, Hep? Helped each other?” When Hep Anderssen’s older brother Bill unexpectedly shows up at her door one night, claiming that he has hit a deer on the road, Hep does what she always does and helps him keep his accident a secret. But when news of a…
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“Family secrets, a celebrity murder, a wrongful conviction, Hollywood drama. It’s got everything.” An intolerable celebrity actor goes missing, and DI Ryan Hale and his team get a taste of the drama of Hollywood productions with all its lies, deceit, backstabbing, and power plays. At the same time, Ryan is presented with new evidence concerning…
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A prequel novella in the Lady Matilda Investigates Series. Lady Matilda, who is mourning the unfortunate death of her husband, is convinced to host the village of Little Biddington’s annual dog show, bringing her companion Hetty and late husband’s basset hound, Wellington, with her. But when the very unpopular Adelaide Forsythe is found murdered in…
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A collection of journalistic essays of unrelated stories, tied loosely together by the themes of murder, madness and obsession. The title might make it seem as if all these stories are related to Sherlock Holmes, something I would personally have loved, but in fact only one of them is. This is not a Sherlock Holmes-focused…
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Book 1 in the Harker & Moriarty series. A brilliant gothic fantasy horror mystery set in Paris in 1903. Samantha Harker, the daughter of Jonathan and Mina Harker, works for The Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. Originally a researcher, Sam is desperate to leave the library and be assigned as a field…
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Far too many people grow boring with age, but in Great Diddling the opposite seems true. Author Berit Gardner moves to Great Diddling in search of inspiration and gets even more than she bargained for when an explosion at a village tea party kills Reginald Trent, a man who is hated by most of the…
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An illegitimate son from already questioned blood. Roland. The bastard. After many years of exile in Brittany, Henry Tudor is marching against Richard III. Among Henry’s retinue is Roland, Henry’s illegitimate son who is aching to be recognised by his father. As the army advances towards a lethal encounter with the forces of Richard III,…
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I reckon we always meet the people we’re supposed to meet. Which is why you ended up walking through that door. The Kamogawa Diner in Kyoto run by former police officer Nagare and his daughter Koishi has no sign out front, no menu and no online presence. And yet, customers find their way there from…
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Outsiders flock to Miracle Springs in hopes of being made whole, but how many of its residents are hiding wounds that have never healed? Book 1 in the Secret, Book, & Scone Society series. Nora Pennington, owner of Miracle Books, has moved to Miracle Springs to escape a past that has left her scarred, both…
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A Miss Marple Mystery. Mr. and Mrs. Bantry are a respectable and conventional upper-class couple who one morning wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. The couple both claim to have no knowledge of how this could possibly have happened. Inspector Slack is sent to investigate, but Mrs. Bantry calls…
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