Saturday 31 August 2024

Saturday 24 August 2024

New Book - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Hercule Poirot 24 - by Agatha Christie (Pages 1 - 35)

First Published: 1940

Henry Morley is a dentist who lives with his sister, and this morning he is complaining about everything, especially as his secretary, Gladys, has been called to her aunt's side because she has had a stroke. Morley thinks that Gladys has made up this as a way to spend the day with her unsuitable boyfriend, Frank Carter.

Reunion - The End - by Samantha Hayes


RATING: OKAY 

First Published: 2018

SPOILERS!!!

Monday 12 August 2024

New Book - A Plague On Both Your Houses - Matthew Bartholomew 1 - by Susanna Gregory (Pages 1 - 23)


 First Published: 2010

The novel is set in Cambridge in 1348.

The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer - Facts


 Orphea, which is the fictional town, where the action takes place, is in the Hamptons. The Hamptons, part of the East End of Long Island, consist of the towns of Southampton and East Hampton, which together compose the South Fork of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York. The Hamptons are a popular seaside resort and one of the historical summer colonies of the northeastern United States.

The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer 5 - The End (Pages 412 - end)


 RATING:OKAY

SPOILERS!!!



Wednesday 7 August 2024

New Book - No Place For a Lady by Gill Paul (Pages 1 - 21)

 

First Published: 2015

The book starts with the prologue in October 1859, and we are introduced to Lucy Harvington, who is in the Crimea, worried about her husband Charlie, not knowing if he will return safe and sound. Lucy admits that this life is very different to the comforts she was used to back in England.

Desperate Measures - Characters


 SPOILERS!!!

Desperate Measures 2 - The End (Pages 121 - end)


 RATING: VERY GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

New Book - Desperate Measures - DCI Janine Lewis 4 - by Cath Staincliffe (Pages 1 - 121)


 First Published: 2015

A new murder investigation for DCI Janine Lewis.

Tell No One - Facts




 The book starts when Beck and Elizabeth swim in a lake in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents.

Tell No One 3 - The End (Pages 200 - end)


 RATING: GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

Jane Austen At Home 4 (Pages 121 - 192)

 The first time that a book by Jane Austen is attempted for publication was when her father approached THomas Cadell with 'First Impress...