What Are You Reading in 2024?
CharlasBritish & Irish Crime Fiction
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2VivienneR
Happy New Year everyone!
Just finished Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie. I've read it more than once but it's been a while since the last time.
Unique among Christie’s novels and yet it has a typical Christie plot featuring a family eaten up with jealousy and ambition. The setting of Ancient Egypt makes it one of her best. The details of life and culture in Ancient Egypt can be trusted because of her experience in the area with her archaeologist husband. Highly recommended.
Just finished Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie. I've read it more than once but it's been a while since the last time.
Unique among Christie’s novels and yet it has a typical Christie plot featuring a family eaten up with jealousy and ambition. The setting of Ancient Egypt makes it one of her best. The details of life and culture in Ancient Egypt can be trusted because of her experience in the area with her archaeologist husband. Highly recommended.
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A Cursed Inheritance by Kate Ellis 4★s.
Book 9 in her DI Wesley Peterson series, set in Devon.
Book 9 in her DI Wesley Peterson series, set in Devon.
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The Marlow Murder Club Robert Thorogood 5★s
Up there with Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series.
Up there with Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series.
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Blood Lines - Angela Marsons 5★s
8mvo62
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 4 stars
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The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman 5★s
10VivienneR
The Late Train to Gipsy Hill by Alan Johnson
Johnson served as Secretary of State, Home Secretary, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British government’s Labour Party and showed a talent for writing with four volumes of memoirs that became best-sellers. Now with the same flair he has taken to writing mystery novels. As Russian gangs try to gain power in London, a young Ukrainian woman becomes a target. She is given some protection by an innocent admirer that draws him into the maelstrom too. A fast-moving, exciting thriller that holds the reader’s attention. I’m looking forward to more by Johnson. Highly recommended.
Johnson served as Secretary of State, Home Secretary, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British government’s Labour Party and showed a talent for writing with four volumes of memoirs that became best-sellers. Now with the same flair he has taken to writing mystery novels. As Russian gangs try to gain power in London, a young Ukrainian woman becomes a target. She is given some protection by an innocent admirer that draws him into the maelstrom too. A fast-moving, exciting thriller that holds the reader’s attention. I’m looking forward to more by Johnson. Highly recommended.
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The Silver Falcon - Evelyn Anthony 3.5★s
Written in 1977, this thriller is very dated. Set around horse racing.
Written in 1977, this thriller is very dated. Set around horse racing.
13mnleona
Not sure if this is the board but I have started The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood.
14annus_sanctus
>1 rosalita: peril at end houseAgatha Christie and soon I want to start with Georgette Heyer s death in the stocks I was wondering if anyone knows the coverdesigner/illustrator of the 2006 paperback edition? I love the covers of this series, but didn't find any info added on this to the actual book here!
P.s. Let's introduce myself. I am Hans, 61 years old, guy from the netherlands and absolutely love the kind of crime that doesn't involve a lot of blood but does instead tempts you to start figuring out for yourself "who done it". Also historical settings I love.
I read much more than detectives, and have more hobbies too :D
Oh and if you ever visited our country as a "real" tourist you must almost surely been to the area where I live with all those windmills!
P.s. Let's introduce myself. I am Hans, 61 years old, guy from the netherlands and absolutely love the kind of crime that doesn't involve a lot of blood but does instead tempts you to start figuring out for yourself "who done it". Also historical settings I love.
I read much more than detectives, and have more hobbies too :D
Oh and if you ever visited our country as a "real" tourist you must almost surely been to the area where I live with all those windmills!
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>14 annus_sanctus: Welcome, Hans.
I’m sorry that I can’t help you with your query regarding the 2006 paperback cover, but I’d be interested in seeing what you think of the Georgette Heyer book, do come back and post once you’ve read it.
I own a copy of the book. This has been a timely reminder for me to move it to the top of my reading list, 🙂.
I’m sorry that I can’t help you with your query regarding the 2006 paperback cover, but I’d be interested in seeing what you think of the Georgette Heyer book, do come back and post once you’ve read it.
I own a copy of the book. This has been a timely reminder for me to move it to the top of my reading list, 🙂.
16annus_sanctus
thanks, I m going to Waterstones (Amsterdam) to buy a few books and will buy it again (I lost it) and I guess the info will be inside (...?)
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>16 annus_sanctus: I did have a quick look at my copy but didn’t spot anything to indicate the cover designer. I’m actually going to start reading it tonight or tomorrow, so if anything comes to light I’ll post an update.
18VivienneR
Recently finished The Bloody Meadow aka The Darkening Field by Irish author William Ryan
In 1937 Stalinist Russia, CID detective Alexei Korolev is “asked” by the NKVD to find out more about the suspected suicide of a young woman in Ukraine who was working on a movie production subsidized by the state. If it is in fact suicide then he can consider the trip as a holiday without mentioning his orders, if not, then he is to investigate. Making things more precarious, she was having an affair with a party director. He has no choice, however, even though he would prefer to avoid political cases at all costs. He travels to Ukraine from Moscow by air - his first flight! The coroner finds the woman was murdered, which to Korolev’s horror means he must investigate party members. While he is loyal to the party he finds himself trapped by that loyalty and his obligation to justice.
Ryan’s writing portrays not only the terrible anxiety produced by Stalin’s Communism that is in opposition to the Orthodox church, still operating in secrecy, but also the danger of antagonizing the party during a time of Stalin’s frequent purges. An excellent novel, I look forward to reading more by Ryan.
In 1937 Stalinist Russia, CID detective Alexei Korolev is “asked” by the NKVD to find out more about the suspected suicide of a young woman in Ukraine who was working on a movie production subsidized by the state. If it is in fact suicide then he can consider the trip as a holiday without mentioning his orders, if not, then he is to investigate. Making things more precarious, she was having an affair with a party director. He has no choice, however, even though he would prefer to avoid political cases at all costs. He travels to Ukraine from Moscow by air - his first flight! The coroner finds the woman was murdered, which to Korolev’s horror means he must investigate party members. While he is loyal to the party he finds himself trapped by that loyalty and his obligation to justice.
Ryan’s writing portrays not only the terrible anxiety produced by Stalin’s Communism that is in opposition to the Orthodox church, still operating in secrecy, but also the danger of antagonizing the party during a time of Stalin’s frequent purges. An excellent novel, I look forward to reading more by Ryan.
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Death in the Stocks - Georgette Heyer 4★s
(>16 annus_sanctus: All I can find on my copy, published by Arrow Books in 2006, is the reference “Cover illustration (copyright symbol) Advertising Archives”.)
(>16 annus_sanctus: All I can find on my copy, published by Arrow Books in 2006, is the reference “Cover illustration (copyright symbol) Advertising Archives”.)
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Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body - M. C. Beaton 4★s
21mvo62
Stay Buried by Kate Webb
and
Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson, Book 1) by Stig Abell
Enjoyed both of them :)
and
Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson, Book 1) by Stig Abell
Enjoyed both of them :)
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The Tintern Treasure by Kate Sedley 4.5★s
Roger the Chapman (pedlar) has a reputation around Bristol for being one of the newly enthroned Richard III’s spies. He denies this vehemently, although he has helped the man several times when he was the Duke of Gloucester.
This time Roger becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a Lancastrian plot to help finance Henry Tudor.
Roger the Chapman (pedlar) has a reputation around Bristol for being one of the newly enthroned Richard III’s spies. He denies this vehemently, although he has helped the man several times when he was the Duke of Gloucester.
This time Roger becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a Lancastrian plot to help finance Henry Tudor.
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For Any Other Truth by Denzil Meyrick 5★s
Featuring DCI Jimmy Daley, it’s set on the Kintyre peninsula, Scotland. Must admit, this is one of my favourite series.
Featuring DCI Jimmy Daley, it’s set on the Kintyre peninsula, Scotland. Must admit, this is one of my favourite series.
24ted74ca
I've been forgetting to post in this group! I've just finished The Hunter by Tara French and really liked it, as I've enjoyed all her other novels too.
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The Knight’s Tale - M. J. Trow 5★s
Set in 1380, this murder mystery stars English poet Geoffrey Chaucer as the main investigator!
Amusingly written. First in a series of 3 (thus far). I shall definitely seek out the other two…
Set in 1380, this murder mystery stars English poet Geoffrey Chaucer as the main investigator!
Amusingly written. First in a series of 3 (thus far). I shall definitely seek out the other two…
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