Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Mrs. Brodie's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies by Shana Galen, Theresa Romain

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I can't remember why I put this on my wishlist in 2018 but I finally got this book this year. It was... fine. Not worth the wait though....
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

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I didn't realize this was a collection of short stories. Or that this was such a short book. It is still utterly delightful. I'm won...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Bodies from the Library 2 -- an Anthology

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No Face by Christianna Brand A psychic, Mr. Jospeh Hawk, is certain he knows the identity of a serial killer. Yes, he often fakes many of h...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Bodies from the Library edited by Tony Medwar

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A delightful collection of lesser-known short stories from well-known authors. They include A.A. Milne, Arthur Upfield, Agatha Christie, and...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy

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I would definitely read the first book in this series before reading this one. There is some information about both the stories and the char...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie

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This is a perfectly lovely collection of various stories by Agatha Christie including a wide swathe of her detectives. There were a few stor...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

The Golden Ball And Other Stories by Agatha Christie

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Every once in awhile Agatha Christie, Queen of the Mystery, would write stories that just had a happy ending. Often they had a twist, but ar...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Holiday for Two -- Anthology

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All Through the Night by Maggie Robinson Carrie Moore is an assistant for a famous mystery writer (think Jessica Fletcher on copious amount...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Gay All Year by Richard May

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I am trying to expand my reading horizons so, when I saw this book of short stories from NetGalley, I requested them. And, from a literary s...
Friday, September 29, 2017

A Talent for Temptation by Sabrina Jeffries

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Meriel Vyse isn't sure about the way her life is going. She has been working for her husband's brother as a spy but she hates the wo...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Bonnie and the Beast by Alexa Black

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At 26 pages, this was a really, really short book that was mostly... well, it wasn't character development, that's for sure. It woul...