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The Last Word is Elly Griffiths’ latest crime novel. Listed as a standalone, it reprises characters from the first Harbinder Kaur novel, the Postscript Murders, and Harbinder also appears in this one. I wish Elly would stop using ‘The Last…’
Zero Sum Game brings us to the end of the A to Z Challenge for another year. Yes, it’s one of those rare posts on a Sunday. But tomorrow is the first of May, and I have blogged all the
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is my book for letter R this month. It won’t come as too much of a surprise to regular readers of my blog, but I have plenty of outstanding titles to offer you. Featured
Nemesis is an appropriate word for today’s N, since it proved a really difficult initial letter for books I enjoyed and recommend to you… if you like my choice of genres, that is! Featured Book : Nemesis (Marcus Didius Falco
How to Stop Time was my first encounter with Matt Haig, but not the last, as I now have several of his books on my TBR. This one is my featured book on today’s A2Z Challenge. It changed my perceptions
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa, is today’s featured book in my A to Z Challenge. Featured: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa The idea of the Cat Who Saved Books piqued my interest. I was
The Last Remains comes out today in the UK according to the newsletters I get, although listed as 2nd Feb on Goodreads. If you pre-ordered it from one of the independent booksellers listed by Quercus, you may have got it
Bleeding Heart Yard is the third Harbinder Kaur crime thriller from Elly Griffiths. Thank you, NetGalley and Quercus Books for the ARC. I’m delighted this series is extending – read my reviews of The Stranger Diaries and the Postscript Murders
Twelve New Stories involving Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple? Purists will be up in arms. Me, I’m delighted my favourite crime authors took part. Thank you,NetGalley and the publishers, HarperCollinsUK, for a chance to read this book. It came out on
The Locked Room is the fourteenth of the Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series. Since I’ve read all the predecessors, in order, there doesn’t really seem much point in my reviewing it to tell you it’s brilliant and just as good
The Night Hawks – number thirteen in the Ruth Galloway series. And Elly Griffiths is already onto number 14! This one finished my summer reading with a bang, and gave me an N for my Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge. The
The Lantern Men is number 12 in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths. You’d think after writing twelve in a series they would be getting stale. Not a bit of it. This one’s a real page-turner! Even when something
The Zig Zag Girl was the not the only Elly Griffiths in the library when I visited on a whim after getting my flu jab. The doctor’s surgery is in the same complex. But, as all the titles on the
Elly Griffiths published the Postscript Murders on October 1st! Is this too much competition for Princelings Revolution, or just a sign of a good date choice? Thank you to Net-Galley and Quercus Books for the chance to review an advance
A Girl Called Justice is for middle graders who like a good mystery. And Elly Griffiths (Ruth Galloway series, Brighton Mysteries) is READING IT ON FACEBOOK! She started 1st May, with the aim of finishing it May 14th when a