Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Miss Marple Returns in Lucy Foley’s Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
The guests at a hotel in the Alps are temporarily cut off from the rest of the world; murder and mayhem ensue. Sound familiar? It’s the plot of an Agatha Christie short story, “The Erymanthian Boar” (from the mythology-themed The Labour of Hercules), in which Poirot finds himself stranded with a motley crew of fellow…
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Antonia Fraser’s Quiet as a Nun
Lady Antonia Fraser turned 94 yesterday, and she has lived an extraordinary life. Her Jemima Shore mysteries are but a small part of her prodigious literary output, which also includes several volumes of poetry and a set of excellent biographies, perhaps most famously her 1969 Mary Queen of Scots, which made a deep impression on…
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Alexis Koetting’s Triple Threat
Alexis Koetting has an impressive theatre and TV/film c.v., and her three Bella James mystery novels, featuring an amateur sleuth who is an actor at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Shaw Festival, provide a fun insider glimpse into the world of acting. Triple Threat is Koetting’s second novel, following Encore (and preceding Revival). Bella is juggling multiple demands on…
