If memory serves me correctly (alas, it has failed me on many an occasion!) this was the first Frederick Forsyth novel I’ve read. It was also his first novel, written in just 35 days! It was quite difficult to get through the first time, not just because of all the big fancy words (for a […]
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Hallowe’en Party
In keeping with this recent re-reading trend of mine, I read Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party. (There’s another one on that list, you’ll see soon.) Usually, I prefer reading Miss Marple mysteries to Hercule Poirot simply because of the settings of these stories and that quality of unseen evil that pervades them all without getting hampered […]
I never knew it was You
By the time you reach the middle of the book, quite contrary to the title, you will say “I definitely knew it was you” . The plot begins with our protagonist Sita bumping into her school friend Anais, at the airport. She wouldn’t have recognized her friend if Anais herself didn’t call out to her. […]
Cards on the Table
Put together a man who claims to “collect” murderers and a dinner party for said collection with a conceited detective and what do you get? An Agatha Christie novel! And a murder, of course. Cards on the Table has all the things you’d expect from an Agatha Christie novel; whether you like it or not. […]
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