SPOILERS!!!
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
Sunday, 16 November 2025
New Book - Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (Pages 1 - 17)
First Published: January 21, 1987
The book starts very strongly as the narrator and main character, Ellen, tells us that since she was a young child, she thought of ways to kill her father.
Saturday, 15 November 2025
Friday, 14 November 2025
New Book - Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce (Pages 1 - 20)
First Published: January 10, 2019
Alison is a barrister who has won her last case of robbery and now she is given her first murder.
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Sunday, 9 November 2025
Saturday, 8 November 2025
New Book - A Medal For Murder - Kate Shackleton 2 - by Frances Brody (Pages 1 - 121)
First Published: July 10, 2010
Kate is hired by Mr Moony, a jeweller, who has been robbed. The thief stole the pawned items he had in his safe and he is worried about his clients. Kate agrees to go and see those clients.
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
A Study in Scarlet - Facts
Watson first introduces himself as part of the Northumberland Fusiliers. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army.
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Sunday, 2 November 2025
New Book - A Study in Scarlet - Sherlock Holmes 1 - by Arthur Conan Doyle (Pages 1 - 33)
First Published: December 27, 1887
This is the first Sherlock Holmes novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The narrator is Dr Watson, and he explains that in 1878 after serving the Northumberland Fusiliers, he was wounded in Afghanistan in the war, so he was sent back to England.
All the Hidden Truths -- Facts
The novel is set in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh is Scotland's compact, hilly capital. It has a medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with gardens and neoclassical buildings.
Saturday, 1 November 2025
New Book - All the Hidden Truths - DI Helen Birch 1 - by Claire Askew (Pages 1 - 195)
First Published: August 9, 2018
The book starts on May 14. Helen Birch has been promoted to Detective Inspector, and it is today when she starts her new job. We discover that Helen has a dark past as her brother Chrlie went missing when he was twenty, and he was never found.
















