Earlier this year, I read The Deadly Hours – well 2 of the stories in it anyway – which featured Weapon of Choice by Susanna Kearsley. The POV character is Hugh, who was the male lead in A Desperate Fortune. Hugh and Mary are most prominently featured but there are ... more >
“The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren’t such easy things to keep.” It’s late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this ... more >
‘No one lives for ever. But the truth survives us all’ Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder. The crime was old, he’d told her, ... more >
I tried to be more organized this year about my reading so I have a lot of 2015 books I managed to finish and a windfall that made my best of list. Here’s the cream of the crop in no particular order. Why yes, yes it is more than ten ... more >
It’s that time of year when bloggers turn their minds to their favourite reads and try and come up with clever lists and pithy statements about the books they loved best that year. Alas I’m all out of pithy statements, but I had plenty of books to choose from. As ... more >
Although it goes against her workaholic nature, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw lets herself be whisked off to Wales for the Christmas holidays by her star client, flamboyant children’s author Bridget Cooper. She suspects Bridget has ulterior motives, but the lure of South Wales with its castles and myths is irresistible. ... more >