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

Michaela’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

I´d be in for Shardlake! Been on my tbr list forever. :)

The book was somehow slow to read and the end perhaps realistic but depressing. Otherwise not bad.

Jan C wrote: "I missed the nominations again!

I did vote."

Most groups nominate on the first day of the month. :)

Thanks Judy! I liked Knives Out, so looking forward to the sequel! Interesting to read that studios now invest huge sums in classic mystery films.

Then I´ll nominate the cheaper one, . :)

Thanks Susan and everyone who looked whether the Bellairs were available. As we have one of them as part of the challenge and the other´s not available in the US, I´ll ask for one of those by E.C.R. Lorac: Murder by Matchlight or Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery. On the German site they´re both 99p on Kindle, but also available as audiobooks and paperbacks.

Could somebody please tell me if The Body in the Dumb River or Surfeit of Suspects, both by George Bellairs, are available for all?
Otherwise I have some Loracs too. ;)

Sandy wrote: "I read The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss several years ago and quite liked it."

It´s on my tbr list too, as I saw the collection of the author´s family in Vienna´s Jewish Museum.

I always love Freddy´s funny kind and this time even in action, but the mixture of crimes and criminals was a bit odd. On the whole I enjoyed it.

I want to read it a bit later. The first in the series was so funny, but the second disappointed. Let´s see what the third will bring!

No fan of the Branagh Poirot films, but obviously they were a success when he makes another one.

I couldn´t really get warm with this one too, especially since the end was so sudden.

I already read Port of London, and the others are available here, but not too cheap for a Kindle edition - I could nearly get a paperback for that.

Sounds like a great challenge, thanks Susan and other mods! There are also a number I haven´t read yet.

The bookshelf says buddy read in 2018, but I think I read it with another group too.

I can´t concentrate on audiobooks as well as on printed books or kindle, so I didn´t catch every detail. The story dragged a bit, and the relationship in the end was unbelievable to me too.
Funny about Pinkerton having been changed to Fullerton in the US, as it´s somehow important to relate to the detective agency which even I as non-Brit knew.
Miss Waynflete´s excuse for murdering not only people but at first her bird with not having had an education was a bit weak imo.

Judy wrote: "Hope you enjoy it, Michaela. Is it Hugh Fraser reading the book?"

Yes! He´s such a good narrator! :)

Looking ahead to this one! I had planned to only read 6 books for the challenge, but have already read 8. ;)

I´ll "read" the audiobook, as I haven´t read it before.

Judy wrote: "Did anyone have a suspect to be the killer? I wondered if it might be the mother of the woman who drowned."

She was on my list too, but as she was so much in the centre for a while I gave up on it. At first I thought there would appear some figure we hadn´t met before with a political implication.