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”
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2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk
Medium – Book About the Book – Agatha is a young ‘Hawk’, a member of a clan in the Isle of Skye, who patrols the sea wall, looking for enemies and keeping her clan safe. She has Down’s Syndrome, and although many people question her right to be a Hawk, she knows that she isContinue reading “2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk”
2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones
Medium – Book About the Book – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are at Haworth Parsonage, busy with their ambitions to become famous, published authoresses. Their quiet life is one day interrupted by the discovery of a cache of bones at a local house. Hearing that they are the bones of a young child, theContinue reading “2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones”
2021 Book #7 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Evelyn Hugo is a 79-year old ex-actress, who made her name in the 50s to 80s, acting in countless movies and winning an Oscar. However, she is perhaps best known for her seven husbands. Monique Grant, a journalist with the Vivant, a top magazine, is asked to writeContinue reading “2021 Book #7 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”
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 #20 – Orphan, Monster, Spy
Medium – Book About the Book – Sarah is a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jewish girl living in the heart of Nazi Germany. When trying to escape, her mother is killed at a roadblock and Sarah is left injured and lost, chased by dogs. She is taken in by Captain Jeremy Floyd, a spy for the BritishContinue reading “TBR Pile #20 – Orphan, Monster, Spy”
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 #15 – Dangerous Alliances
Medium – Book About the Book – Lady Victoria Aston is a headstrong girl living in the early 19th century and is a complete fanatic for the writings of her favourite author, Jane Austen. She is determined to find her own Mr Darcy/Mr Knightley/Colonel Brandon, but is in no hurry to do so. However, circumstancesContinue reading “TBR Pile #15 – Dangerous Alliances”
TBR Pile #12 – Hold Back the Tide
Medium – Book About the Book – Alva Douglas lives with her father, the loch-keeper for a small Scottish town. For the last seven years she has lived in fear as she knows that her father murdered her mother. Now, she is planning a way out. However, she finds her escape delayed by the disappearanceContinue reading “TBR Pile #12 – Hold Back the Tide”
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