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Dorothy & Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers & C. S. Lewis
Dorothy & Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers & C. S. Lewis by Gina Dalfonzo (2020)What happens when we push past the surface and allow real, grounded, mutually challenging,...
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Mad About the Boy?
Mad About the Boy? (2008) by Dolores Gordon-SmithThe second in the Jack Haldean mystery series finds Jack in the middle of another murder "in the family." This time, his aunt and uncle are celebrating...
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Moonflower Murders
Moonflower Murders (2020) by Anthony HorowitzAt the end of Magpie Murders, Susan Ryeland had retired from publishing and joined her partner Andreas in a venture to run a hotel on the island of Crete....
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Q-Squared
Q-Squared (1995) by Peter DavidTake Q and make him even more annoying and arbitrary and you get....Trelane. The infamous Squire of Gothos with whom Captain Kirk had a run-in over a hundred years ago....
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The Philadelphia Murder Story
The Philadelphia Murder Story (1945) by Leslie Ford (Zenith Jones Brown)Myron Kane is a well-known, thoroughly impossible columnist and contributor to The Saturday Evening Post. He makes life...
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Whose Body?
Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers; read by Nano Nagle (2023)I have read the detective works of Dorothy L. Sayers more times than I can count. If you would like a more in-depth review of the...
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth GrahameMole, Ratty, and Badger have their hands full trying to keep their friend Toad out of trouble. Toad is wealthy and lives in the large country house,...
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Red Bones
Red Bones (2009) by Ann CleevesHattie James is an intense, sometimes troubled young graduate student working on an archaeological dig on a croft in the Shetland Island. She hopes to prove a theory...
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Daisy Darker (Spoilerific)
Daisy Darker (2022) by Alice FeeneyIt's time for Nana (Beatrice) Darker's 80th birthday and she decides to invite her dysfunctional family to her tiny tidal island for the celebration. They all...
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Zombies of the Gene Pool
Zombies of the Gene Pool (1992) by Sharyn McCrumbJay Omega (Professor James Owen Mega) is back for another mystery set in the world of science fiction fans. This time Erik Giles, fellow professor in...
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Grand Cru Heist
Grand Cru Heist (2004) by Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël BalenBenjamin Cooker, renowned wine critic, is waylaid while on a trip to Paris. He is beaten and his prized classic Mercedes is hijacked. But as...
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The Inheritance Games
The Inheritance Games (2020) by Jennifer Lynn BarnesAvery Grambs, who has an absent father and a mother who died unexpectedly, lives with her half-sister and both have to work extraordinary hours to...
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"The Speckled Band"
"The Speckled Band" (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [read from story included in the Sherlock Holmes jigsaw puzzle of the same name]A locked room mystery from the pen of Conan Doyle. It introduces...
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Seance for a Vampire
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire (1994) by Fred SaberhagenThis is a follow-up story to Saberhangen's The Holmes-Dracula File from 1978. Here, Dr. Watson reluctantly...
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April Reading by the Numbers Reviews
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April Virtual Mount TBR Reviews
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April Vintage Scavenger Hunt Reviews
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The 1937 Club
Twice a year Stuck in a Book and Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings sponsor a group book club where those who would like to read books from the declared year. This April, the chosen year is 1937--a most...
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Making It So
Making It So (2023) by Patrick StewartCovid has struck and it has been nearly a week since I finished this. I'm still not quite up to writing a more substantial review, but I want to get these...
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Unnatural Ends
Unnatural Ends (2023) by Christopher HuangEarly 1900s, Britain. Sir Lawrence Linwood and his wife were unable to have children of their own, so they adopted three children: Alan, Roger, and Caroline....
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The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla
The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (1937) by Stuart PalmerInspector Oscar Piper is headed to Mexico for a well-deserved vacation. Sure, he has to be an "official presence" on guard for the Democratic...
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Figure Away
Figure Away (1937) by Phoebe Atwood TaylorThe town of Billingsgate is getting ready to celebrate "Old Home Week" and planning to clean up on the tourist trade as visitors flood in for a taste of a...
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The Mystery at Greenfingers
The Mystery at Greenfingers (1937) by J. B. PriestleyPriestley's mystery play is set at the Greenfingers Palace Hotel on the edge of the Peak District. In fact, one of the characters declares that's...
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The Midnight Library
The Midnight Library (2020) by Matt HaigFrom the book flap: Between life and death there is a library. Up until now, Nora Seed's life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone...
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