Michaela’s Comments (group member since Aug 16, 2019)

Michaela’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

Pity the poll vanished, as I´d otherwise have changed my vote back to my nomination of Death of an Airman.

I finally read this, and found it one of the best, though the mystery is a bit in the background. The end is rather tragic, but I rooted for Eliud (though I normally don´t like killers to get away, as Christie does in several of her mysteries).

I wondered that it was allowed for an author to nominate her own book, and the votes are all from these people with 0 friends.

I already changed my vote for one of the books that are more ahead, so please alert us, how the "real" voting looks like, so I could possibly change back to my nomination. Thanks!

I finally finished this book, which wasn´t always easy to stick to with all the gossipy style and jumping from one author to the other and back. There were interesting moments though, and I like that you have a list of authors in the end.

Thanks for the list, Susan! I´m okay with reading both the Cadfael and Falco series. :)

I just posted the idea about a Falco buddy read on the Deals thread, because it´s been on my list forever, so I will join in! :) I thought perhaps instead of further Cadfael reads? I will only join in the Ocean Liner series, others only in case of interest or availability, as I didn´t start the Punshon or others in time. Every month okay with me.

Sandy wrote: "I love the Falco series, starting with The Silver Pigs. Wise cracking PI in ancient Rome (70's AD)."

That´s been on my list forever! Perhaps a buddy read, after/instead of the Cadfael series? :)

Finished this today, and it isn´t necessarily my kind of mystery. Too many characters and the setting... also the end... 3 stars, or perhaps 2,5.

I nominate Death of an Airman by Christopher St. John Sprigg.

Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott, the Bishop of Cootamundra in Australia, is on hand. In England on leave, the Bishop has decided to learn how to fly, but he is not convinced that the pilot's death was accidental. In due course, naturally, he is proved right. The Bishop and Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives, and ultimately a cunning criminal scheme is uncovered.

I saw a few of the TV episodes, but they really put me off, so I´m not sure I want to read the books...

Thanks Judy! Agree about the Guardian article, rather odd.

Merry Christmas to those celebrating! Have some nice quiet days with your loved ones!

I liked Sparkling Cyanide, Sittaford Mystery and Ordeal by Innocence best. Unusual but gripping.

Finished this today, and also found the cold case idea good, probably new at those times. The characters were interesting, but the solution not too hard.

I´ll read this, but not immediately. :)

Alwynne wrote: "Not sure if this is the right thread but just to let people know the latest in Nicola Upson's Josephine Tey series Dear Little Corpses is now on Netgalley UK."

Thanks Alwynne! I had found this out by chance today and requested it. :)

So sad to kill off the police man. Otherwise the story was good, even when I thought that the end dragged some people along that turned out to be someone different, so I wasn´t satisfied. I was critical about the suicide and note in the end immediately.

I´ll try again with Crossed Skis by Carol Carnac, fitting for February (at least in the Northern hemisphere) and for me being Austrian. ;)

In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead Rivers to the piercing sunshine and sparkling snow of the Austrian Alps.

Here there is something sinister beneath the heady joys of the slopes, and Rivers is soon confronted by a merry group of suspects, and a long list of reasons not to trust each of them. For the mountains can be a dangerous, changeable place, and it can be lonely out between the pines of the slopes...

Jill wrote: "Michaela wrote: "I nominate Inspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts. Available on kindle and other formats.

Inspector French is the central figure i..."

Oops, guess that´s why I bought it recently. ;) Will think about something else...

I´ll join in! Never read anything by her. :)