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Review :: Murder on the Pier by Merryn Allingham
I picked up the first Flora Steele mystery, The Bookshop Murder quite on a whim, really just because I was looking for a mystery novel and it was set in a bookshop. I thoroughly enjoyed that one and knew I would continue the series eventually. I finally read book two, Murder on the Pier, this week – and loved it just as much. What is Merryn Allingham’s Murder on the Pier about? Sussex, 1956: When bookshop owner Flora Steele goes for a walk along the pier she isn’t expecting to spot a young woman’s body in the stormy waters below. And she’s shocked to discover the victim is someone she…
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Currently Reading :: The Curlew’s Eye :: Karen Manton
Hello! I just wanted to pop in today and tell you a little bit about my current read, The Curlew’s Eye by Karen Manton.I have to be honest – this was one of those titles that pops up in my mail box sometimes that get shelved on the ‘maybe if I get to it’ shelf (not an actual physical shelf, but mentally. I’m not actually organised enough to have a shelving system that sophisticated, and also there isn’t enough space on the shelves for everything, but I digress). SO I had this filed under maybe and then I heard a bit more about it and decided i liked the sound…
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Review :: The Bookshop Murder by Merryn Allingham
I love a cosy mystery tv movie (hello Hallmark – Aurora Teagarden, Gourmet Detective, Mystery 101, ALL OF THEM) and have been keen to read some, but tbh there are just sooooo many out there that it’s hard to know where to start. I spotted The Bookshop Murder by Merryn Allingham on a Netgalley browse one day and figured focussing on books/series with a bookish connection at least narrowed it down, so put in a request for a review copy. I’m so glad I did! What is Merryn Allingham’s The Bookshop Murder about? Bookshop owner Flora Steele escapes the sleepy English village of Abbeymead through the adventures in the stories…
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kidlit :: Malamander :: Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor’s Malamander is a delightfully creepy book for middle grade readers… Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous malamander creep… Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy – especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet Parma’s parents twelve years ago, and when she engages Herbie to help her find them, the pair discover…
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Review :: Cosy Christmas Mysteries
We all know I love a good cover, and alongside that I’m a big fan of a pun in a title and a cat on the cover, so it’s kind of surprising that I don’t read more cosy mysteries! This week, though, I do have two cosy Christmassy mysteries to share with you! Both of these I requested review copies of based solely on the titles and covers =) Purring Around the Christmas Tree by Liz Mugavero In the New England town of Frog’s Ledge, the Holiday Light Festival is a Christmas tradition. Killing Santa is not. To bring joy back to the season, organic pet patisserie owner Kristan “Stan”…
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Review :: The Mitford Murders :: Jessica Fellowes
** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** Book description (from Goodreads)It’s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa’s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy – an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse – Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake – is killed on a train in broad daylight, and…
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Review :: The Clue in the Trees :: Margi Preus
** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** Book description (from NetGalley) Francie’s brother Theo has secrets—secrets Francie thinks she wants to know. But what if one of those secrets is that Theo is a murderer? To avoid considering that possibility, Francie plunges into her senior year at a small-town high school near Enchantment Lake in northern Minnesota. It’s a radical change from her private school in New York, but she hopes to keep an eye on her great aunts and maybe finally learn more about the mother she never knew. A small silver box seems to hold…
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Review :: Away with the Fairies :: Phryne Fisher
** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** It’s 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women’s magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues’ deceptions.But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung’s imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung’s family, followed…
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Review :: Unnatural Habits :: Kerry Greenwood
I’m pretty familiar with Kerry Greenwood’s work – having read a couple of her Phryne Fisher books before (as well as her Corinna Chapman series, which I like even more), so I was more than happy to receive a couple of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries from Poisoned Pen Press to review here on the blog. 1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty, golden haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous. Polly Kettle, a pushy, self important Girl Reporter with ambition and no sense of self preservation, decides to investigate and promptly goes missing herself. It’s…
