Merryn Allingham
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The Bookshop Murder (Flora Steele #1)
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2021
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Murder on the Pier (Flora Steele #2)
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2021
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Murder at Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele #3)
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2022
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Murder at the Priory Hotel (Flora Steele #4)
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2022
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Murder at St. Saviour’s (Flora Steele #5)
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The Buttonmaker’s Daughter
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The Girl from Cobb Street (Daisy's War #1)
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2015
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The Secret of Summerhayes
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The Nurse's War (Daisy's War #2)
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2015
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Venetian Vendetta (The Tremayne Mysteries Series, #2)
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I've read Our House and The Other Passenger and thought them very good, but this book not so much. The main problem, I think, was the structure. The most dramatic incident in the novel occurs halfway through - there's an interesting build-up to it an ...more | |
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Four stars instead of five because, unusually, I discovered the villain very early in the novel. The mystery was a little too obvious, but it was a sensitively told tale, sad but beautiful and, as always, Donna Leon's writing was eminently readable. ...more | |
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Four stars instead of five because, unusually, I discovered the villain very early in the novel. The mystery was a little too obvious, but it was a sensitively told tale, sad but beautiful and, as always, Donna Leon's writing was eminently readable. ...more | |
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I loved so much about this book, its warmth, its humour, the wonderful characters Sarah Winman created, springing to life in its pages. The background was brilliant, too, charting the changes in postwar society as the years rolled by and, alongside, ...more | |
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The book is advertised as a thriller which it plainly isn't. It involves a mystery certainly, gradually revealed as the story progresses, and which kept me reading despite the fact that at times the story was deeply distressing. I'm not certain how I ...more | |
“The mystery had grown too intriguing to be given up to the police. It was one that belonged to them”
― Murder at Primrose Cottage
― Murder at Primrose Cottage
“When he'd called Flora impossible, he hadn't been wrong. Once she got an idea into her head, it stuck. She was like a terrier digging for a rabbit, and it was tough luck on anyone who got in the way”
― Murder at the Priory Hotel
― Murder at the Priory Hotel
“But Lord Templeton was gone and so was dear Aunt Violet. And so, Flora thought sadly, was her chance of escape. Her chance to leave the narrow life of Abbeymead and walk out into the world beyond”
― The Bookshop Murder
― The Bookshop Murder
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