Joshua Stein The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The West Wing Seasons One and Two Riverdale Avenue Books The Binge Watcher’s Guide, August 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Reading The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The West Wing while also watching the 2024 Democratic National Convention could notContinue reading “Week beginning 28 August 2024”
Tag Archives: Cindy Lou Reviews
Week beginning August 14 2024
Donna Leon A Refiner’s Fire, A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Grove Atlantic, July 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Donna Leon’s writing is such a joy, something to savour, as Guido Burnetti and his family navigate their personal lives and the newest case to be investigated. In thisContinue reading “Week beginning August 14 2024”
Week beginning 24 July 2024
Valerie Keogh The Mother Boldwood Books, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Valerie Keogh has provided readers with yet another good read, with some twists and, in my opinion more importantly, an intelligent consideration of the qualities that are believed to make the perfect husband. It isContinue reading “Week beginning 24 July 2024”
Week beginning 17 July 2024
Kristy Cambron The British Booksellers Thomas Nelson, April 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. * Kristy Cambron has used the way in which her characters interacted during World Wars 1 and 2 to produce a fine historical novel based on solid research. An additional explanation of her reasonsContinue reading “Week beginning 17 July 2024”
Week beginning 10 July 2024
Laura Thompson Agatha Christie An English Mystery Headline Publishing Group, Hatchette, 2013. (First published 2007; Headline Paperback 2008; Hardcover published March 2018, Pegasus Books). Laura Thompson’s Agatha Christie is an excellent accompaniment to reading John Curran’s The Secret Notebooks. I read them in close succession and found their perspective and perceptive commentary on Agatha ChristieContinue reading “Week beginning 10 July 2024”
Week beginning 3 July 2024
Maryann D’Agincourt, Glimpses of Gauguin, Portmay, January 2015. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected copy for review. This is an elusive narrative, but one that is worth while attempting to understand. I wonder if the clue to how Maryann D’Agincourt would like her novel read is in a paragraph in the textContinue reading “Week beginning 3 July 2024”
Week beginning 26 June 2024
Kate Galley Old Girls Behaving Badly Boldwood Books, May 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I was attracted to this book because, after reading criticisms that older women do not feature in many novels, Old Girls Behaving Badly suggested that in this case this is not justified. InContinue reading “Week beginning 26 June 2024”
Week beginning 29 May 2024
Priscilla Masters The Quiet Woman Book 2 of A Florence Shaw Mystery, Severn House, July 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Quiet Woman is an intriguing murder mystery in so many aspects –characterisation, plotting, pace and writing style. Nurse Florence Shaw is a quiet woman, herself,Continue reading “Week beginning 29 May 2024”
Week beginning 22 May 2024
Hannah McGregor Clever Girl, Jurassic Park ECW Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Clever Girl, Jurassic Park is written in a style that I often find unappealing. However, I must acknowledge that I was so captivated by the perceptive commentary, the substantial research that underlies theContinue reading “Week beginning 22 May 2024”
Week beginning 15 May 2024
Freida McFadden One by One Poisoned Pen Press, April 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. One by One is a competent psychological thriller. The plot is an edgy combination of ill-assorted friends on a holiday jaunt that goes wrong with attempts to find the holiday hotel in whichContinue reading “Week beginning 15 May 2024”
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