Medium – Book About the Book – Rozie is the new assistant private secretary to HM The Queen. Whilst she is away in Nigeria for a cousin’s wedding, the unthinkable happens at Windsor Castle – a young Russian pianist is found dead – strangled – in one of the guest rooms at the castle. RozieContinue reading “2021 Book #18 – The Windsor Knot”
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2021 Book #11 – Death Sets Sail
Medium – Book About the Book – Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are the founding members of the Detective Society, which they have set up at their school, Deepdean. They are invited to Egypt by their classmate Amina, and end up cruising down the Nile in the company of Amina, Hazel’s father and sisters, theContinue reading “2021 Book #11 – Death Sets Sail”
2021 Book #4 – The Magpie Murders
Medium – Book About the Book – Susan Ryeland is an editor at Cloverfield Publishing, which publishes the novels of Alan Conway, the creator of the German detective Atticus Pund. She is sent the latest installment of Conway’s series, and finds herself immersed in the mystery happening in the 1950s English village. However, the manuscriptContinue reading “2021 Book #4 – The Magpie Murders”
2021 Book #1 – The Ghost Tree
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – The third (and currently last) in the Betty Church series of books, ‘The Ghost Tree’ is split across two time frames – Betty’s childhood in 1914 and her ‘current’ time at the beginning of the second world war. Betty’s childhood is shaped by the loss of her bestContinue reading “2021 Book #1 – The Ghost Tree”
TBR Pile #22 – The Room of the Dead
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – The second in the Betty Church Mystery series, this time, Betty Church and her colleagues at Sackwater Station are dealing with the mundanities of life – missing slippers, dogs and other unexciting occurrences. But soon, the war comes to Sackwater, and a street is bombed, killing a wholeContinue reading “TBR Pile #22 – The Room of the Dead”
TBR Pile #19 – Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Set at the beginning of WW2, this book is the first in a series by M.R.C. Kasasian, who is also the author of the Gower Street Detectives books. Betty is a policewoman in her thirties, battling against the prejudice and misogyny rife in the police service. She sustainsContinue reading “TBR Pile #19 – Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire”
TBR Pile #17 – Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons
Medium – Book About the Book – The events of the Hound of the Baskervilles occurred five years ago and still the terror of the climatic night haunts Dr Watson. They are called back to Baskerville Hall under the most awful of circumstances – Sir Henry Baskerville’s wife, Audrey, is killed whilst out walking oneContinue reading “TBR Pile #17 – Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons”
TBR Pile #16 – The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Stephen Fry reads the Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the novel ‘The Study in Scarlet’ to the final (canonical) Holmes tale ‘His Last Bow’, the adventures of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and colleague Dr Watson areContinue reading “TBR Pile #16 – The Complete Sherlock Holmes”
TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown
Medium – Book About the Book – The first in the series of Father Brown short stories, written by G.K. Chesterton. The book introduces the character of Father Brown, the catholic priest with the propensity for solving crimes, alongside his enemy-but-then-friend, the criminal Hercule Flambeau. The book gives 12 short stories, all showing off FatherContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown”
Book #49 – Target Alex Cross
Prompt – A book with a three word title. Medium – Book About the Book – The book begins with Alex Cross, a psychologist and former FBI agent (now FBI contractor), and his family at the funeral of the President of the USA. Soon after the funeral, a senator is killed on her way toContinue reading “Book #49 – Target Alex Cross”
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