Meeting Ruth Ware
August 24, 2023
City Adventurers with Ruth Ware… More Meeting Ruth Ware
Category: mystery books
Meeting Rebecca Tope
August 10, 2023
The City Adventurers were lucky enough to attend a talk by Rebecca Tope. She is a crime writer, known for producing a number of book series. We first discovered her as the author of the Cotswold Mystery Series. You can see our blog about “A Cotswold Mystery” here. Rebecca has also written the Lake District series,… More Meeting Rebecca Tope
Solve The Murder Book Club
July 6, 2023
The City Adventurers love reading about mystery, so we’ve started our own book club. Click the link to join! What is coming up in August? We have two fantastic murder mystery books to read on your Summer Holiday. One, by Ruth Ware, involves a Hen Party Weekend from Hell, called In a Dark Dark Wood.… More Solve The Murder Book Club
Solve The Murder Book Club
June 22, 2023
The City Adventurers love reading about mystery, so we’ve started our own book club. Click the link to join! Join the Solve The Murder Book Club (mailchi.mp)
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
June 8, 2023
This book is great read that keeps the identity of the victim secret for most of the book. Although it is fair to say, it is pretty clear who deserves to be killed!… More The Guest List by Lucy Foley
A Very British Murder
May 18, 2023
A tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures. A riveting investigation into the British soul… More A Very British Murder
Westwind by Ian Rankin
May 11, 2023
Why “classic lost thriller”? Apparently, Ian Rankin had refused to allow a reissue as he believed it be ‘not very good’.… More Westwind by Ian Rankin
Death at the Seaside
May 4, 2023
Kate Shackleton heads off for a holiday in Whitby. But she finds a body on the first morning of her arrival … More Death at the Seaside
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
March 23, 2023
Agatha Christie was Radio 4 Book of the Week The Plot ‘Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.’ Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was ‘just’ an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? As Lucy Worsley says, ‘She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern’. She went… More Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
The Presidents Daughter
March 16, 2023
I suggested The Presidents Daughter by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson to my book group as our next read. It is another Sunday Times bestseller. The Plot ALL PRESIDENTS HAVE NIGHTMARES. THIS ONE IS ABOUT TO COME TRUE.Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL and a former US President, has always defended his family as fiercely as… More The Presidents Daughter