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If you like Agatha Christie…
A mix of Golden Age and contemporary mystery writers in no particular order, except for Margery Allingham. She’s first because you have to read her. My introduction to her writing was Tiger in the Smoke. Margery Allingham Ngaio Marsh Dorothy Sayers Georgette Heyer Edmund Crispin Cyril Hare Gladys Mitchell Josephine Tey Marion Babson Carolyn Hart…
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The Year 1000
Remember the Millenium and the threat of Y2K crashing computers and the world? Seems a long time ago. At the time, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger wrote a social history of England in the year 1000, the first Millenium. It is the world of the Anglo Saxons, with the book structured around the Julius Work…
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Jewels. A Secret History
Victoria Finlay’s Jewels. A Secret History is brilliant. Well-written and extensively researched, it draws you into the world of jewels. A world where amber burns with a lovely scent, where “[Colombia’s] emerald barons are as powerful as the cocaine kings”, and Britain’s freshwater pearling was destroyed by “pearlers, power stations, and pollution”. Did you know…
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If you like Elizabeth Peters…
Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters writes witty, suspenseful, romantic mysteries. Some are definitely modern Gothic. Others, like the Amelia Peabody series, are historical. If you like her novels, you might try: Charlotte McLeod/Ailsa CraigLaurie King (the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series that starts with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice)Mary Stewart Her books are classics in the genre of…
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In a corner
Too nervous to smiletoo lonely to stay awayanonymous dreamercoffee shop star.