Today I’m delighted to bring you my review of the latest historical cosy mystery from Fiona Veitch Smith, set in 1929. Published by Embla Books on 19 August 2023, The Picture House Murders is book 1 in the Miss Clara Vale Mysteries. It’s available now and highly recommended. AUTHOR BIO Fiona Veitch Smith is aContinue reading “Book Review: The Picture House Murders, historical cozy mystery by Fiona Veitch Smith”
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Book Review: ‘Murder Before Evensong’ by Revd. Richard Coles
I knew I had to read this novel as I have so enjoyed listening to The Reverend Richard Coles on the BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live and seeing him on his many TV appearances. I also follow him on Twitter and find his tweets very amusing. So I was expecting great things of this,Continue reading “Book Review: ‘Murder Before Evensong’ by Revd. Richard Coles”
Book Review: ‘The Winter Guest’ by W.C. Ryan
I was engrossed by this historical novel set in Ireland in 1921 among The Troubles that exploded in 1919 in the Irish War of Independence after the First World War. The Winter Guest by W.C. Ryan brings our investigator and first person narrator Tom Harkin to the atmospheric, crumbling and haunted ancestral mansion of theContinue reading “Book Review: ‘The Winter Guest’ by W.C. Ryan”
Inspiration from Brittany
By the time you read this I’ll be in the tiny fishing village of Port Manec’h in the south of Finistère, near France’s equivalent of Lands’ End, Pointe du Raz. We are here at the invitation of my French friend Dominique who with her husband Philippe owns a lovely holiday cottage in Port Manec’h. WhatContinue reading “Inspiration from Brittany”
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