Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Belinda Bauer and the Excellence of Eggs
Bauer’s new book is due out in April in Canada and the U.S., having just been published in the UK. Many thanks to NetGalley for my preview copy. In The Impossible Thing the author does a number of things exceptionally well; there are also a few aspects of the book that I puzzled over, and…
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Scotland the Brave: Alice Feeney’s Beautiful Ugly and Lucy Connelly’s Scottish Isle Mystery Series
Alice Feeney is a terrific writer of stand-alone thrillers. Some of her books I love more than others, but I have found her work to be consistently excellent across multiple novels, and through shifts in form and genre. There are aspects that trouble certain readers, unlikable characters in particular, that don’t bother me. At times…
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Irish Women’s Crime Fiction
[With apologies to those who received the early draft, when I managed to spill coffee and hit “publish” prematurely, in a flurry of damp papers and tissues.] St. Patrick’s Day: Revisiting 2024 and Anticipating 2025. Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend! On Friday, during a late afternoon lull, I enjoyed a Welsh rarebit refashioned as Irish…
