Category: Michael Connelly
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OK well I finally have a floor, pipes replaced, working water heater and lagged pipes and all is ok. I have contacted my insurance company and, as yet, no response to letter or emails so I feel another Elaine Special Letter is due to go to the CEO. I am giving them two more days…
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I am currently taking a look at upcoming publications and have seen some titles that have sparked my interest. As you know, prior to and after my operation, my reading spark seemed to have taken a nap and it is only just now coming back to life. So here are some authors and titles that…
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Catch up time again. So many books to write about so here we go: A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup. The Poisons of Agatha Christie. Dame Agatha has used poison as a means of murder in fourteen of her novels and here we are taken through the methodology and uses which were deployed to…
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I do love discovering new detectives, well new to me at any rate, particularly when there is a whole series to keep me going. Over the lifetime of this blog I have indulged in quite a few and thought it would be fun to see how many I have read. Donna Leon – Brunetti series. …
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Now that the hassle of new laptop and setting it up etc is behind me (well almost, scanner on printer not working yet but I am ignoring it for the moment), I am finally getting down to posting about books. I mentioned in one of my summing up posts of 2012 that I was seriously…
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Falling behind with reviews – daughter arriving from Australia on Saturday and I am running around like a headless chicken planning menus, shopping, filling in schedule of who is going where and seeing whom while she is here, so I am doing a quick round up of my reading over the last week in one…
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Last year I read all the Lee Childs books – thoroughly enjoyed them but cannot remember a single thing about most of them now. Jack Reacher comes into town, rights a wrong, usually beds a beautiful woman on the way and the he hits the road. Pure pulp fiction and they were great. I then…