Tag: book-review
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Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy
This will be a busy week of endings and beginnings and April Fool’s Day mischief. My writing energies are temporarily diverted elsewhere, so I’m re-posting last year’s Holy Week musings, with a quick diversion into True Crime to mark Palm Sunday today. Scroll down to skip a grim and very real story. Palm Sunday and…
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Alafair Burke: A Crime (Writing) Family
I’m nearly finished Alafair Burke’s new novel, The Note, which starts a bit slowly but then picks up, in a big way. And since I’ve never written on here about how much I enjoy both Burke’s fiction and (in a more moderate way) the prolific literary output of her father, James Lee Burke, this seems…
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When Agatha Christie Disappeared
Lucy Foley’s new (authorized) Miss Marple novel will be out in late September and it’s just had its cover reveal: The book trailer is stylish but more coy than informative. I do think Foley was clever to set her first Christie novel outside of St. Mary Mead, and Christie’s Marple did travel to a a…
