Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Fatal Grace
Not even death by electrocution can make anyone like CC de Poitiers. It takes Chief Inspector Armand Gamache digging beneath the village’s surface to find secrets long buried.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Hunter’s Tale
When the vicious Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, Dame Frevisse finds that the evil that men do sometimes does live after them.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s Still Life
A beloved villager is found lying dead in the woods – an arrow gone astray. But Chief Inspector Armand Gamache knows something dark is lurking behind the white picket fences.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Heirs and Graces
An heir is needed, and unfortunately he’s Australian. Lady Georgie is dispatched to Kingsdowne Place to help make him suitable for society. Then young Jack’s hunting knife is found in the duke’s back.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Bastard’s Tale
Reporting on the politics and plotting of the royal court for an ambitious bishop, Dame Frevisse is drawn into a dangerous maelstrom encircling the throne of England.
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s A Serpent’s Tooth
Homecoming in Absaroka County finds Longmire and companions hunting for a missing mother. A trail that leads to a cult with a vendetta and a pile of weapons.
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s The Seventh Trumpet
Murder, intrigue, conspiracy, and great danger await Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf as they try to reconcile the murder of a young noble with a militant abbott.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Duck the Halls
In between shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating, Meg is busy detecting murder, arson, and who those holiday pranksters are.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Hen of the Baskervilles
A dastardly murder and the kidnapping of a prize chicken threaten to ruin Caerphilly’s state fair—fortunately, Meg Langslow is on the case.