"So many people seem to me to not be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." "The Thirteen Problems", by Agatha Christie The stories: Across 13 mysterious and seemingly unsolvable case, Miss Marple shows that all the clues in the world can’t beat the understanding of human nature gained from living in …
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"What do you want me to do? Pretend that none of this has happened? Let you go off to a house that could be run by murderers? Let them pick their time to come after you and me? I’m looking to get out of this in a way that can give us back our peace. I’m not going to just close my eyes and pretend that peace is here already."
"In Tokyo, the streets, pavements and buildings soaked up the scorching sun and, when the sun went down, the heat oozed back out into the evening sky." "Takeout Sushi", by Christopher Green I’m delighted to join the blog tour of “Takeout Sushi", by Christopher Green. Many thanks to TheWriteReads, the publishers Neem Tree Press, and of course …
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“There was a man in a white car,” he said. “He parked a bit behind us. I saw him in the mirror, getting out of his car. I thought he was going to help. I waited for him to come and talk to me, but he didn’t. Then I looked again and his car had gone. A policeman stopped eventually, but there was no sign of the man. They never found out who he was.” He hesitated, but only for a second. “My mother’s body was found in the woods beside the motorway.”
"Anyone who has read the four books I have written about my adventures with ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne, may be surprised by this one. Where is Hawthorne? Where am I? What’s going on with the third-person narrative?"
"It was time for her to step out of Geraldine’s shadow and lead the investigation in her own way. She couldn’t rely on her every time she faced a challenge. Geraldine might be a first-rate detective, but she was on maternity leave. It was up to Ariadne to discover the truth, and that was exactly what she intended to do."
“You need to speak to the police in Cambridge as soon as you can. Either three killers with the same ritual of removing hands have spontaneously emerged at the same time, or we’ve unearthed another serial murderer.”
“This house protects its own. But what would happen to those who did not protect it in turn?”
“It had been a long time since Frank had an adventure. It wasn’t something he was good at. But anything was better than it being all about the past. Only problem was that the past hadn’t got the memo. The bloody thing refused to go away.”
Phew! March has been my busiest reading month of the year so far, but despite having a few blog tour commitments, I was determined not to let my NetGalley 2024 releases or my #TBRbacklog books slip!
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