Reviews

‘My favourite type of mystery, suspenseful, and where everyone is not what they appear . . . Christine is great at creating atmosphere . . . she evokes the magic of the stage, and her characters [have] a past to be uncovered before the mystery is solved.’ [Stage Fright]

- Lizzie Hayes, MYSTERY WOMEN

A wonderful poignant novel

Posted on Feb 28, 2017 in Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont | 4 Comments

Elizabeth Taylor is a writer I admire greatly. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971) is one of her late novels and it is about an elderly lady (and lady is the right word) who arrives at the Claremont, a residential hotel in Kensington, hoping to make a life for herself there after the death of […]

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Sheer bliss: Prunella Scales and Wives and Daughters

Posted on Feb 19, 2017 in Agatha Christie, Cranford, David Suchet, Dorothy L Sayers, Hugh Fraser, Ian Carmichael, Nemesis, Prunella Scales, The Hollow, Wives and Daughters | 17 Comments

I haven’t been sleeping well these last six months or so – and I won’t need to tell readers of my blog why that is. I don’t usually have a problem getting to sleep, but I often find myself awake at four or five am. That is when audiobooks are such a godsend. I prefer books […]

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