A prolific writer who has made it to the Guiness Book of Records as the bestselling author of all time, Agatha Christie is a remarkable writer. Largely known for her detective stories, often featuring the Belgian Detective Poirot or the oft underestimated elderly Miss Marple of St Mary Mead, she also wrote plays, including Mousetrap, …
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Whose Body? is the story of an unknown murdered man found naked in the bathtub of an architects home. None of the members of the household know him and are shocked and scandalised by the body found in their home. Who is the man? And is he connected in some way to a missing financier? Lord …
The first in a series of books about Inspector Gamache, these mysteries are set in Montreal, Canada, and surrounding areas. In this first book, Gamache finds himself in a tiny town called Three Pines after a beloved local woman is shot with an arrow. At first it seems like a hunting accident, but as the …
Being my birthday recently, I was gifted a stack of wonderful new books. I don't often get to buy books new, I tend to get them "like new" or good on Amazon. But there's something delicious about a new book with the way it smells and that the pages are all perfectly white and pristine. I also don't often …
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A fictionalised account of the real life murder of Elizabeth Short in LA in the late 1940's, James Ellroy explores the unsolved case and LA's seedy underbelly in the Golden Age of Cinema. You might recognise James Ellroy's name from his best seller LA Confidential, (which was made into a really good film which I …
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