The facts of the case, though meticulously reconstructed, proved precisely nothing – except that the discovery made by two carters from Dizy made, frankly, no sense at all. It’s the 4th…| This Reading Life
Top Ten Books with Honorifics in the Title TTT for July 15 #TopTenTuesday 📚 📚 📚 This was a fun one, though not easy. I had to go back to November 2022 to finally get my 10 titles. Click on the ti…| Words And Peace
Friday, 7 November. Concarneau is empty. The lighted clock in the Old Town glows above the ramparts; it is five minutes to eleven. The tide is in, and the south-westerly gale is slamming the boats …| This Reading Life
No one noticed what was happening. No one suspected that something serious was taking place in the small station’s waiting room, where only six passengers sat dejectedly among odours of coffee, bee…| This Reading Life
The widow, Tati, keeps the stranger, Jean, on to help around the farm; and to have him in her bed though his attention wanders often to the 16 year old Felicie.| The Australian Legend
Penguin Classics UK covers designed by Alceu Chiesorin Nunes I have been saving this post for closer to July and all things Paris, but I’ve come down with a nasty lurgy after my recent FNQ ho…| This Reading Life
While the prolific Belgian writer Georges Simenon is probably best known for his Inspector Maigret novels, he also wrote many darker books, often referred to as his romans durs or ‘hard’ …| JacquiWine's Journal
I’ve written before about the impact the long-defunct Orion Crime Masterworks series had on my discovery of classic-era crime and detective fiction, and a recent pruning of my shelves brought…| The Invisible Event