Medium – Book About the book – This book is the graphic novel version of the play, with the original text (not the ‘quick text’ modern version). The rich, successful Birling Family are having a quiet night in, celebrating the engagement of the daughter, Sheila, to son of Mr Birling’s competitor, Gerald Crofts. As MrContinue reading “2021 Book #71 – An Inspector Calls (Graphic Novel)”
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2021 Book #68 – The Nesting
Medium – Book About the Book – Lexi Ellis is at the end of her tether. Struggling with depression and anxiety, one day she decides to take her own life but is found just in time by her friend. When she leaves hospital, she is dumped by her boyfriend, chucked out of his house andContinue reading “2021 Book #68 – The Nesting”
2021 Book #64 – Murder Under the Sun
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Narrated by Hugh Fraser (who plays Captain Hastings in the ITV Poirot stories), the thirteen stories in this collection are summery, holiday tales filled to the brim with murder and deception. The stories include the detectives Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, as well as a few stand aloneContinue reading “2021 Book #64 – Murder Under the Sun”
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 #52 – Ghost Wood Song
Medium – Book About the Book – Shady Grove is a fiddle player who has, with the help of her father’s fiddle, inherited his gift to call ghosts from their rests. Playing the fiddle is dangerous though, and she is hunted by the ‘Shadow Man’ who hunts her in her nightmares and starts to hauntContinue reading “2021 Book #52 – Ghost Wood Song”
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 #30 – The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Sophie Taylor is a young, orphaned, well-to-do girl, who has recently lost her father and has been left in poverty. In desperation, she gets herself a job at the newly established Sinclair’s Department Store – which is a little bit like Harrods. She is looked down upon byContinue reading “2021 Book #30 – The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow”
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”
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