A Very Persistent Illusion is a book by crime writer L. C. Tyler. He is a past chair of the Crime Writers Association and author of the Herring series. The Plot Inventor of the Sorensen-Birtwistle Revised Scale of Girl-Rage, Chris has a beautiful girlfriend (Virginia), two likeable potential parents-in-law (Hugh and Daphne) and a classic sports… More A very persistent illusion
The Ice Twins is a gripping crime thriller from S. K. Tremayne. It was a No.1 Sunday Times Best Selling Novel One of Sarah’s daughters died. But can she be sure which one? A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny… More The Ice Twins
Time for another trip to the Cotswolds for a mystery with house sitting Thea Osborne. Only this time Thea is not house sitting and she is no longer Thea Osborne. Thea and Drew are now married. The newly Mrs Thea Slocombe has moved into a big house in Broad Campden with Drew and his two… More Peril in the Cotswolds
Time to read a classic Christmas mystery. Mystery in White is a 1930s snowbound mystery featuring a train bound for Christmas in Manchester. Onboard were a group of mismatched travelers who had to make a decision when their locomotive becomes stuck in an impenetrable snowdrift. Should they stay on the train or risk trudging their… More Mystery in White – Review
Mistletoe and Murder is part of the Daisy Dalrymple series by Carola Dunn. Plot In December 1923, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher yields to the demands of her mother and the needs of her writing career and brings her family to an old Cornish estate for Christmas. The estate, occupied by the poor relations of the ancestral… More Mistletoe and Murder – review
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows is the gripping fourth novel in the Flavia De Luce series by Alan Bradley. In the deep midwinter, there’s a murder to solve… Christmas is coming and the snow is falling, but with the de Luce family finances in a parlous state, Colonel de Luce has been forced to rent out… More I’m half sick of shadows
The Bullet That Missed is the third book in The Thursday Murder Club series Plot It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder… More The Bullet That Missed
Time for an ingeniously plotted festive murder mystery set on the 1950s Yorkshire Moors from the bestselling author of the D.C.I. Daley series. The Plot A village of secrets.It’s December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the snow-covered town of Elderby. Is he a simple… More Murder at Holly House
Death at the Sign of the Rook is the 6th Jackson Brodie novel by Kate Atkinson and was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Plot Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise… More Death at the sign of the Rook – Review
On our visit to Northumberland I purchased Holy Island by L J Ross to commemerate our visit to Lindisfarne. Also known as Holy Island, Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England. The Plot Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave… More Holy Island