Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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P.D. James’s A Certain Justice and Gail Bowen’s Verdict in Blood
P.D. James’s A Certain Justice, her tenth novel, appeared in 1997; Canadian writer Gail Bowen’s sixth novel, Verdict in Blood, came out in 1998. They’re among the best novels by each author, and both deal with women and the practice of law in exceptionally thoughtful ways. Venetia Aldridge, the barrister and murder victim in A…
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Agatha Christie All Year Long
This year marks a half-century since the world lost Agatha Christie, so there are extensive commemorations and several new book publications. Perhaps the most anticipated is Lucy Foley’s reboot of the Miss Marple series with September’s publication of Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel. There’s also a new Poirot limited series for television in the…
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Nicole Lundrigan’s The Case Study
Canadian author Nicole Lundrigan has written several well-received psychological suspense thrillers. The Case Study juxtaposes the lives of two women who seem to have nothing in common, depicting one of them through a first-person narrative and the other through third-person narration, which works well. Mia is the wife of a well-regarded therapist and college professor.…
