Alright, we are wrapping up the Summer of Christie and Sophie Hannah’s new Poirot mystery The Monogram Murders is just around the corner. I’d like to thank Book Club Girl for hosting our discussions and to Kaitlin at William Morrow for sending us books and asking great questions. 1.) From the beginning, there is tension among the surviving…
REVIEW: THE REVENANT OF THRAXTON HALL
Those with more than a passing familiarity of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are aware of his interest in the supernatural. Perhaps mostly famous is his publication of the Cottingley Fairies photographs. Aside from theosophy, he also sought out mediums, ever hopeful that the dead can speak to those still living and perhaps he could reach…
ACCENT: THE BIRDS AND OTHER STORIES by Daphne Du Maurier
I’m sure I’m like many people in that I’ve seen Hitchcock’s The Birds but I’d never read the story. In fairness, I’ve read plenty of of Du Maurier’s books and stories, but I sort of assumed it was a written version of the film. And as a cinema student, I’d also seen a couple dozen Hitchcock…
REVIEW: THE ORPHAN CHOIR by Sophie Hannah
This may be the creepiest thing Hannah has written yet. The author so deliciously gaslights her protagonist that the reader can’t help but be taken in as well. The reader knows to be careful but it’s impossible not to slowly lose touch with sanity as the story goes on. The premise is unpretentious: Louise and…
ACCENT: THE MIST IN THE MIRROR by Susan Hill
Hill employs the standard elements — vague warning from an older gentleman, unsettling malaise, a crumbling English house, a mysterious ancestry and a naive narrator — to tell the story of James Monmouth. James, our narrator, is English by birth but has no memory of the short time he spent there as a small child.…