Caroline Crampton
British writer and podcaster; creator and host of Shedunnit, a podcast about golden-age detective fiction, and author of The Way to the Sea (2019) and A Body Made of Glass (2024).
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Hot Milk is about Rose, who has confusing and debilitating health problems, and her daughter Sofia, who finds her mother exasperating but seems perpetually tied to her, and even sometimes experiences apparent sympathy pains for her.
on fivebooks.com · 8 Apr 2024 · Report
Sanditon by Jane Austen
Sanditon was begun in early 1817 and left unfinished when she died in July of that year.
on fivebooks.com · 8 Apr 2024 · Report
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
I’ve never been able to understand why Appointment with Death isn’t up there with those two, because it also features Hercule Poirot, and he’s on holiday—this time in Petra in Jordan, where he has gone on a sightseeing tour to the famous monuments with a party of other tourists.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Jul 2022 · Report
Death on the Riviera by John Bude
They all come with an introduction that offers some context about the writer and some key social history of the period as well—stuff like the currency racket in Death on the Riviera has all been explained nicely before you actually plunge into the mystery and get confused.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Jul 2022 · Report
N or M? by Agatha Christie
But, yes, N or M? is the only book she wrote during the war that’s actually about the war.
on fivebooks.com · 4 Nov 2021 · Report
Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh
Tied Up In Tinsel is actually one of Marsh’s later novels.
on fivebooks.com · 22 Dec 2020 · Report
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