Tag: books
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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…
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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…
