pickA literary friend of Perilla's asks him to look into the death of her husband, though nobody, including the widow, seems particularly sorry he's dead. Meanwhile Corvinus's adopted daughter and her husband find a body which somebody had stabbed even though he was already dead of natural causes.
A nice twisty tale, made even more so by the fact that I kept getting Perilla and Marilla confused.
pickA consul's wife asks Marcus Corvinus to look into the death of her uncle, whose death Alexander the Great has assured her in a seance was murder rather than an accident.
Very funny first few chapters lead into an intriguing historical mystery which made me wonder when certain names cropped up how it would gel with real events and which was told by a narrator with a consistently amusing “voice“.
so-soOK, I am going to have to Google the ending on this one because my husband kept talking to me while I was trying to read the last part of the book & I feel like I completely missed something. Book was just ok to me. I am over the people trapped on an island with a murder, but this one was a little different & did a little more character building than focus on the murder but still the ending is something that I gotta read up more on to understand.
pickIt took a while but my Vermont librarian found a copy at the Boston Public Library. A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read.
A father kills his wife and children, leaving one boy hiding in a closet. Years later the son returns to the island to try to work through his memories & his own sense of guilt. The residents and the uncle who welcomes the son back display their hesitancy in knowing how to approach him. The island itself is beautifully captured. So good.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heard about this book on the Murder in America Podcast. A Canadian doctor murders her American doctor boyfriend in Pennsylvania, then flees to Canada. The extradition process is a nightmare, and here‘s the kicker, she‘s pregnant with his baby. Penned by the victim‘s dad, David Bagby, this is well organized and written, and beyond a memoir, it‘s also a commentary on the justice system failures which resulted in the death of a baby.
pick17-year-old Persephone (Persey) struggles to live up to her perfect older brother, so when she is the first player to solve a supposedly unsolvable escape room & is invited to take part in the ultimate competition to win millions of dollars, she hesitantly accepts. 8 contestants are flown to Las Vegas to take part in the contest, & tension is high with the prize money at stake. (continued)
Turns out I‘m a philobiblist!! Who knew? You probably are too 😊 Enjoying Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent and learning lots of new words as well!!
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