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I enjoyed reading Love Not Poison which is a light
entertaining story with a very good plot. She writes in a similar genre to Gaorgette Heyer.Just the book to take
on holiday!

This book is one of the most amusing that I have read for a very long time,it is a send up of the country house
murders where all suspects are rounded up in the Drawing Room and the guilty party is revealed.

The main characters are Ethelred who is a crime writer and Elsie who is his agent, who seems to spend most of her time keeping Ethelred on the straight and narrow, while feeding her addiction to chocolate.

The dialogue between them is so sharp and witty it is almost like a comedy act. A very funny book with a clever plot and an absolute joy to read.

‘Siblings - The Autism Spectrum Through Our eyes' Edited by Jane Johnson and Anne Van Rensselaer is an anthology of what it is really like to be a brother or a sister to someone on the spectrum.

An enchanting book. Take an idyllic English country house estate, with gardens, meadows, woods, a river, an island complete with folly and set it in a racy 1920s golden summer. People it with eccentrics, war heroes and survivors, slim young things and a pre-pubescent wunderkind and stir with Roman and Egyptian mythology, voodoo and lost tribe shamanism. Then sprinkle with ghosts and memories, death and sex.

The fourth in the series detailing the murder investigations of Inspector Knutas and the journalist Johann Berg. An interesting tale dealing with the art world in Stockholm and the island of Gotland.

Probably would be better to read these books in sequence as there was a sense of missing some essential developments in the relationships of the regular characters, and the Inspector appeared somewhat remote. There is a strong impression of place which one is aware one is missing by not knowing the locations.

When Ellie's husband is killed in a car crash along with a woman the police assume he was having an affair and that their deaths were an accident. Ellie is not totally convinced and sets out to find out more.

This is a well written easy read, plenty of good dialogue and detail and generally convincing characters although modestly I have to say that I found the person who turns out to be the killer jarred with me from the start ! However I felt that the later slightly unbelievable plot developments and the rushed end detracted from the whole.

A different take on dragons, plus political intrigue and bloody assassinations amongst aristocratic houses make this an interesting first novel.

The pace is fast and the writing easy to read with some strong characters and a well described landscape. However I missed having any sympathetic central characters - just as you think that one is all right, he/she goes and does something horrible! The whole lot are all apparently viscous, sly and completely without conscience.

Another Meredith Gentry episode, and in common with other recent LKH offerings plenty of extraneous sex. It's a shame because there are some really good ideas in here, but I suppose to keep the series going there has to be padding. A bit more plot than her Anita Blake series but not enough to justify the price of a whole book !

One for the fans perhaps but not for the first time reader.

This was awful - a whole book of not terribly good soft porn and only taking place over a few hours ! I read one of the first books and remember thinking it was a good story so was quite looking forward to seeing what had happened in the interim but ......

Anita Blake has turned from Federal Marshal into a vampirish, werwolvish, shapshifting quuen bee having to be serviced by impossibly beautiful men every few hours in order to stay alive and to keep her drones alive - puhleeze !! Lets have less sex and more plot.

Perfect Murder - a quick read, and it most certainly was! I thoroughly enjoyed this well crafted stand alone very short crime novel by Peter James. It has a wonderful twist at the end - but read it carefully because you may miss it - the beginning is the important bit!

Highly recommend - it only takes an hour to read!