Lorac is the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett who wrote dozens of novels from the 1930s – 1950s. Death of an Author pulls from her inside publishing knowledge to set up this snappy mystery novel.
REVIEW: In The Fog
On a rainy, late Victorian evening in London, a group of men sit in their club, bemoaning the fact that a bill they oppose will pass in Parliament that night. Then, they notice Sir Andrew, the bill’s main supporter, is across the room and they hatch a Scheherazade plan to distract him until the vote is over.
REVIEW: How To Solve Your Own Murder
Deep family secrets create a domino effect no one could have predicted — except maybe a fortune teller at an English country fair.
REVIEW: The Extinction of Irena Rey
An eccentric but ostensibly brilliant author has a new book ready for translation. She summons her equally odd but insightful translators to her home on the edge of the Bialowieza forest reserve in Poland. They all get together, go through the manuscript and spend all day translating from Polish into their respective languages. But this…
Books for February
“February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair.” ― Edgar Fawcett