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Stacking the Shelves
I have been trying to keep my To Be Read list down to a reasonable limit this year, not least because I set up an ambitious Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project that included about as many books as I was expecting to read! I am not even 50% of the way through that list (but that’s…
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Non-fiction November
This week (or, more strictly, the week just gone, but let’s say “this week”), Liz Dexter has been hosting Non-fiction November, and she’s offered up a really interesting set of book pairings that got me thinking about how I read and relate to non-fiction. For a long time, I was not a great non-fiction reader,…
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Hester Musson – The Beholders (2024)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I…
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Phoebe Morgan – The Wild Girls (2021)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I…
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Bonnie MacBird – The Devil’s Due (2019)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I…
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Louise Mumford – The Hotel (2023)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I…
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Haunting horrors: ghostly detection
In honour of the Halloween season, I’ve published two short stories, a detective story and a mystery, that feature the prospect—or maybe fact…?—of supernatural intervention: Supper at the Bryn Ddu, and Researcher Wanted. Both are available now on Kindle Unlimited, or for purchase. Check them out… if you dare! Within the detective fiction genre, there…
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JL Blackhurst – Three Card Murder (2023)
If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I…
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Faith Martin – Murder by Candlelight (2024)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece.…
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Seishi Yokomizo – The Inugami Curse (1951)
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 featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review (4 out of 5) This is one of several post-War Japanese detective tales that I’ve read in…
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