Sometimes I give the impression that I worry about my age. And sometimes I do. I reckon I’m about four years off well-meaning relatives and domestically-blissed friends wondering out loud what I’m going to DO about ‘finding a MAN so I can have CHILDREN’ before it’s ‘TOO LATE’. I think it’s more the anticipation of this annoyance that [...]
Archive for the ‘murder mystery’ Category
S is for Sicily
Posted in Andrea Camilleri, Books, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, murder mystery, tagged books and men, following a series, reading fantasies, the balloon-shaped swell of reading joy on 31 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Q is for Questions
Posted in Books, Books and Television, CS Harris, murder mystery, romance, Sebastian St Cyr, tagged attractive male characters, characters we love, historical cavorting, holiday reading on 28 December, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At the end of the year we start asking ourselves questions. Did I do all I planned for the year? Am I satisfied with my life? How did I spend my Christmas bonus so quickly? Q is for Questions. And who asks lots and lots of questions? Well, small children. Usually in the middle of an important [...]
Ah, Sebastian!
Posted in CS Harris, murder mystery, romance, Sebastian St Cyr on 12 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I read when I go away for my holidays (as you all know from past dispatches), but when mooching around the house on the Christmas break, reading seems like a bit too lengthy a commitment to make when you only have 10 days to get as much sun, sleep, sea, dvd-watching, ham-eating and mince-pie-scoffing as possible completed before [...]
Books 22 and 23: The Patience of the Spider and The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
Posted in Andrea Camilleri, Books, Books and Television, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, murder mystery on 9 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is it about some novels that make you want to travel to the places they depict? It’s not just well-told descriptions of place, although that helps. It’s something deeper, a heartfelt emotional connection with the characters and stories of a particular setting; with characters who are likewise intricately entwined with their surrounds. I was [...]
Book 14: Why Mermaids Sing by CS Harris*
Posted in Books, CS Harris, murder mystery, Reading, romance, Sebastian St Cyr on 5 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Sebastian St Cyr novels are Regency-era murder mysteries with a healthy dollop of romance and fabulous attention to things like costume, atmosphere and contemporary societal gossip which make them not only thrilling, entertaining and so much fun but slightly addictive. They are the perfect Sunday-morning-no-I’m-not-getting-out-of-bed readers. Fluff your pillows, fill the teapot, adorn the plate with mint slices [...]
Book 9: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
Posted in Books, Charles Dickens, classics, crime, Genre, Kate Summerscale, murder mystery, Reading on 3 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Non-fiction makes its first appearance in my pile o’ books this year with a fascinating and accomplished book from Kate Summerscale. (Though I should explain that this work encompasses many of my fiction loves and does indeed read somewhat like the murder mystery genre which was inspired by the events The Suspicions of Mr Whicher details… [...]
