gnewt58 commented on Murder against the grain by Emma Lathen
Murder Against the Grain won the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award in 1967.
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Slowly bringing my reading towards the 21st century...
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He/him. Living and working in Melbourne Australia. Aging, with a lifelong interest in reading but not many books actually consumed these days. Would love to recapture the voraciousness of my youth.
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gnewt58 started reading Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen
Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen
Murder Against the Grain won the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award in 1967.
> When a million-dollar bank robbery …
gnewt58 reviewed Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Martin Edwards
>>He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of …
Muddy stolid drama
4 stars
A tale of muddy moors, muddy towns, muddy people living lonely depressing lives (and deaths). A grim alternative picture to the Yorkshire of "All Creatures Great and Small"
gnewt58 reviewed Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Martin Edwards
>>He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of …
Muddy stolid drama
4 stars
A tale of muddy moors, muddy towns, muddy people living lonely depressing lives (and deaths). A grim alternative picture to the Yorkshire of "All Creatures Great and Small"
gnewt58 finished reading Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Martin Edwards
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Martin Edwards, Gil North
>>He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.
>Amy …
gnewt58 started reading Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Martin Edwards
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Martin Edwards, Gil North
>>He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.
>Amy …
gnewt58 reviewed The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Wait? What?
4 stars
No (extra) spoilers here - the overall premise of the book is well publicised. It's only when you start reading it that the utter confusion of the protagonist(s) worms its way into the reader's mind. It cracks along at a brisk pace, the caricatures of the British upper-crustery are well drawn, and the mystery is, well, mysterious. Well worth a look.
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gnewt58 stopped reading A quiet life by Natasha Walter
Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of …
Made it half way through this and stopped reading a couple of months ago. The characters are unappealing and their motivations seem vague and vapid. The premise seemed promising but I just couldn't force myself through it.
gnewt58 reviewed Murder in the Frame by Dave Warner
A little disappointing
3 stars
The protagonist's misogyny and the contrived solutions to the locked-room mystery left me cold after remembered enjoyment of Dave Warner's earlier efforts.
gnewt58 commented on A quiet life by Natasha Walter
Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of …
Finding it a bit hard to get inspired by this. Took a week off to read a 1950's mystery...
...now back to this.
gnewt58 started reading A quiet life by Natasha Walter
A quiet life by Natasha Walter
Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of her husband in 1951, Laura …
gnewt58 reviewed The Man Who Didn't Fly by Bennett Margot
