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Frances Brody
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Frances is a fan of Golden Age mysteries.
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I'm looking forward to my first visit to Bethesda, Maryland where I'll be taking part in the Malice Domestic convention from 3 to 5 May.
http://www.malicedomestic.org
On Sunday evening, I'll be one of Five Deadly Dames with Marcia Talley, Ann Cleeves, Denise Swanson and Elaine Viets at Eastport Yacht Club, Annapolis.
http://eastportyc.org/86-news-a-events/news/743-five-deadly-dames
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http://www.malicedomestic.org
On Sunday evening, I'll be one of Five Deadly Dames with Marcia Talley, Ann Cleeves, Denise Swanson and Elaine Viets at Eastport Yacht Club, Annapolis.
http://eastportyc.org/86-news-a-events/news/743-five-deadly-dames
We then drive... Read more of this blog post »
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Dying In the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)
— published 2009 — 13 editions |
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A Medal for Murder (Kate Shackleton, #2)
— published 2010 — 11 editions |
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Murder In The Afternoon (Kate Shackleton, #3)
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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A Woman Unknown
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Gone to Ground
by Brandilyn Collins (Goodreads Author), Frances Brody (Goodreads Author) — published 2012 — 5 editions |
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I have been counting down the days until this book arrived (I had it pre-ordered) . Yesterday it arrived and there was much excitement in my household. First the cover !!!..... Sigh...... It's so dreamy...the ocean ,sandy beach, cocktails .. Sigh.... " Read more of this review » |
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"Snap! I'm also reading this book with great interest. I'll be on a panel with the author in a couple of weeks at Malice Domestic in Bethesda."
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Each one of us has to decide what we want to do with the days that unfold, way too quickly. Orwell's penmanship cuts through the wordiness that only a man that knows what he wanted, where he was at, and where he wanted to go could achieve.
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I was attracted by the cover - from a painting by John Singer Sargent - and found within a vibrant and engrossing tale, very well written. I enjoyed The Colours of Corruption from the first page to the last.
This Victorian thriller set in the Lond... " Read more of this review » |
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"Now I also notice that I 'liked' my own post, oh dear!
So glad the Kate books are among the ones you especially want to read." |
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"I was fortunate enough to see this play at West Yorkshire Playhouse, directed by Jude Kelly. Patrick Stewart wore striped pyjamas. Just thought you'd...more
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Frances Brody
said "yes" to attending
Free download of Requiem, Byland Crescent, book 1
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February 15, 2013 12:01AM
location: Amazon (worldwide), The United Kingdom description: To celebrate the release of book 2 of the series, Renaissance, for ONE DAY ONLY, the first book in the Byland Crescent Saga, Requiem, will be free to download on Amazon. Frances said: Thanks, Bill. Look forward to reading Requiem. |
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| This warts and all account begins with the controversy surrounding Dorothy L Sayers' BBC Radio play on the life of Christ, arising from her decision to write in 'the kind of language we use nowadays.' Sayers enjoyed controversy and was not averse to...more | |
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| Lord Peter Wimsey, witty, urbane and damaged by his wartime experiences, makes his debut. The story begins with the discovery, in a bath, of a naked male corpse. Because of a superficial resemblance between the dead man and a missing financier, the i...more | |
“Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.”
― Frances Brody, Dying In the Wool
― Frances Brody, Dying In the Wool
“- 'He reckons you're one of these new women. You've deeply unsettled the female population by driving your car about and prying into other people's affairs.'
And here I was, chiding myself for being so entirely conventional. I rose in my own estimation.”
― Frances Brody, Dying In the Wool
And here I was, chiding myself for being so entirely conventional. I rose in my own estimation.”
― Frances Brody, Dying In the Wool
“This interest in ragtime gives both of us the opportunity to be considered fashionably scandalous.”
― Frances Brody, Dying In the Wool
― Frances Brody, Dying In the Wool
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“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.”
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
“The sky is darkening like a stain
Something is going to fall like rain
And it won't be flowers”
― W.H. Auden
Something is going to fall like rain
And it won't be flowers”
― W.H. Auden
“I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".”
― Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita
― Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita
