Tag: reading
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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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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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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.…
