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”
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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 #23 – Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
Medium – Book About the Book – Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are at the denouement of a case involving a purloining St Nicholas when they are approached by a beautiful young woman, Eve Allerthorpe, who believes that she is being haunted by a Christmas Demon. Her late mother, who committed suicide last Christmas, toldContinue reading “TBR Pile #23 – Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon”
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 #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”
Book #13 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Prompt – A book with an upside-down picture on the cover. Medium – Audiobook (I have loads of Audible credits and want to use them up!) About the book – Written by Mark Haddon, this book is written from the perspective of Christopher Boone, who is a young man on the ASD Spectrum (although aContinue reading “Book #13 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”
Book #8 – The Miniaturist
Prompt – A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins. I would say that this book covers a number, but most notably lust, greed and envy. Medium – Book About the Book – Nella Oortman is sent off to Amsterdam to be married to a much older man at the age of eighteen. WhenContinue reading “Book #8 – The Miniaturist”
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