REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY: AGATHA CHRISTIE
An Autobiography As much as I love biographies, I’m often hesitant about autobiographies. Everyone has an interesting story — that doesn’t meant they know how to tell it. There is no doubt Dame Agatha Christie knew how to tell a story. Hundreds of them. But her best may be her own. She begins at the…
REVIEW: MURDER IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE by Kate Colquhoun
The First Victorian Railway Killing I’m a sucker for these sorts of books. In fact, when I received the review copy, my husband joked, “Well, someone said, ‘Let’s write a book for you!’” It has so many themes I love: mystery, the Victorian era, trains, and a murder trial. AND it’s British. Drawn from…
WINNER: MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
And we have a winner! Terry’s comment was chosen on random.org. Of Sherlock, Terry said: “As to why I love Mr. Holmes, he’s the original, brilliant misanthrope. Before there was Gregory House, almost before there was even Allan Quatermain, there was Sherlock Holmes.” Thanks to everyone who entered and to the folks at Penguin Classics…
REVIEW: THE CRADLE IN THE GRAVE by Sophie Hannah
Hannah’s tireless cops are on the case again in her newest procedural novel. Strangely enough, its publication rather coincides with the real life of Casey Anthony. Never one to shy away from difficult subject matter, Hannah, through her characters, explores the emotional and societal impacts of such an unthinkable crime. The main action surrounds the…