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Batya Gur – Murder on a Kibbutz (1994)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I first picked up Batya Gur’s Michael Ohayon when I was about fourteen, in…
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Stacking the Shelves – 2025 Week 12
I have been too busy collecting ‘To Reads’ to do this for the last few weeks. But here’s what I’ve added to the list (much faster than I can keep up with reading):
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Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Preamble Take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I read this some time ago, before I had started (somewhat) diligently writing reviews of the crime and detective fiction that I was reading. I have come to Christie, and to Poirot, in an entirely disordered…
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Andrew Whitehead – A Devilish Kind of Courage (2024)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review This is outside of my usual time period, so I know less about it…
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Alasdair Beckett-King — Mystery at the Manor (2024)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I have (much) younger siblings as well as nieces and a kiddo, so I…
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Andrew Hunter Murray — A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering (2024)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I really enjoyed the premise of this novel: an “unofficial house-sitter” runs into a few…
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DB Stephens — The Serial Killer Support Group (2025)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I’m grateful to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced reader copy. The novel is…
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Nicola Williams – Until Proven Innocent (2024)
Read my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies now (in paperback, hardback, or on Kindle)! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Review Here we are, almost 30 years later, rejoining Nicola Williams’ barrister Leanne “Lee” Mitchell. I appreciate the…
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Victoria Dowd — The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder (2020)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I haven’t read any of the Smart Woman’s series but have often spotted them…
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Stacking the Shelves – 2025 Week 8
I managed to not adding anything to my TBR last week, so no post, but did end up adding a few this week. So here’s what I’ve added to NetGalley and my bookshelves this week:
Dominique Gracia 