Tag: book-review
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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…
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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…
