Medium – Book About the Book – Set in Victorian Edinburgh, this story is the second in a series based around a group of doctors, their assistants and families who are on the forefront of medical research in Edinburgh’s New Town. Dr Will Raven is recently returned to Edinburgh after a trip abroad, where heContinue reading “2021 Book #66 – The Art of Dying”
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2021 Book #62 – The Moonflower Murders
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In the sequel to ‘Magpie Murders’, our heroine, Susan Ryland, is living in Crete with her boyfriend, running a slightly unsuccessful hotel. One day, she is approached by the Trehernes, the very wealthy owners of a hotel in Suffolk, which was also where their daughter Cecily was married.Continue reading “2021 Book #62 – The Moonflower Murders”
2021 Book #59 – The Marlow Murder Club
Medium – Audiobook About the book – Judith Potts is a 77-year-old eccentric living in the English market town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire. She works part-time as a crossword writer for a paper and lives in a rambling, dilapidated mansion which she inherited from an aunt. One day, she is swimming in the river atContinue reading “2021 Book #59 – The Marlow Murder Club”
2021 Book #43 – A Quiet Life in the Country
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Lady Hardcastle and her maid and best friend, Flo Armstrong, decide to move to the country in order to get some peace and quiet. They move to a beautiful, friendly village near one of Lady Hardcastle’s friends and enjoy about a week of calm. The calm is broken,Continue reading “2021 Book #43 – A Quiet Life in the Country”
2021 Book #36 – The Mitford Murders: Bright Young Dead
Medium – Book About the Book – Louisa Cannon is still working as a nursery maid in the Mitford home, three years after the events of the first Mitford Murders book. She is now 23, and is chafing a little at the tedium of life in service, as well as the class inequalities rife inContinue reading “2021 Book #36 – The Mitford Murders: Bright Young Dead”
2021 Book #34 – The Mitford Murders
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Louisa Cannon, a young cockney girl, is trying to escape from her nasty, abusive Uncle Stephen. She manages to get a job with the famous Mitfords, an aristocratic family who were infamous during the 1920s. She works as a nursery maid, caring for the family of six daughtersContinue reading “2021 Book #34 – The Mitford Murders”
2021 Book #18 – The Windsor Knot
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”
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”
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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