REVIEW: THE LANTERN by Deborah Lawrenson
This is yet another recent book that cements my assumption that Provence is enchanting. Of course, in my fantasy, there is significantly less murder and suspicion than in this book (or Death at Chateau Bremont). Still, I too dream of a run down but livable field stone farmhouse, with an aging orchard and lavender fields,…
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REVIEW: DEATH AT THE CHATEAU BREMONT by M.L. Longworth
Any lover of wine, cigars, and old world charm — as well as a good yarn — should read this mystery. It poses no genre-defying questions, and it really doesn’t really hold any gasp-enducing surprises. But that’s ok, because it is the perfect hammock read for the summer. Antione Verlaque is a slightly cranky, somewhat…
MESRINE: Parts Un et Deux (2008)
I have rarely been so entranced by what is primarily an action movie. So far-reaching is the protagonist’s mayhem that it took two full-length films to show just pieces of his exploits. There could easily have been a third. Part 1 – Killer Instinct Part 2 – Public Enemy No. 1 The saga begins in…