Welcome to Litsy!

I finished Book 3 for #joysofJune just under the wire at 11:55 last night, and this is the first time I‘ve been able to come up for air long enough even to look at Litsy. It didn‘t help that I just spent half an hour unraveling a mystery of my own when a “missing” line on a spreadsheet turned out to be a row that was curiously shrunken to an illegible height. 🤯

Anyway, this was fine. Interesting characters and setting. Vaguely disappointing end.

Book club selections! New books on hold! Older books on hold!

This is an approximation of my #JuneTBR

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Using Ngaio Marsh‘s opening chapters and title, Stella Duffy does a decent job of completing this INSPECTOR ALLEYN MYSTERIES crime novel such that I couldn‘t tell who wrote what. The supporting cast are broadly drawn and the ending a little disappointing due to an antagonist‘s identity, but overall the mystery kept me guessing and entertained until the end and I‘d check out both the Marsh originals and Duffy‘s work on the strength of this.

Really enjoyed this. Couldn‘t work out what was “proper“ Marsh and what wasn‘t. Loved the New Zealand setting and the return to younger Alleyn.

Next murder mystery read...