This is one of the books I bought at Helena’s Curiosity Shop in Bentleigh. She helped me choose three books, but this one I picked up by myself because I like the author. It’s one of the book in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. This series seems to ...

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I should really be reading from my TBR Pile, but at the time I read Night Watch I was struggling with non-fiction and most of the books I could reach were non-fiction. In order to feed my need for a narrative I went to my bookshelf to find something I’d ...

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This book is part of the Dymocks Reading Challenge for 2021. It goes into the Ask a Dymocks bookseller category. I was walking through Chadstone Shopping Centre three weeks ago before this latest outbreak of Covid shut everything down. I saw Dymocks and had to go in for photos. While ...

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This is the sequel to the article I wrote on book one a couple of years ago. I’m not sure I can write as well as I did that day, but I’ll give it a go. I read The Girl Who Played with Fire closely followed by The Girl Who ...

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This book is the final book in the series by Jones. I’ve been reading them as they come out, it makes a change from reading a series in whatever order I happen to find them. I hadn’t realised they were only a trilogy until I read the back of the ...

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A Lord Peter Wimsey mystery! And so mysterious there were quite a few bits I didn’t understand. That could possibly be because I know precious little about bell ringing. The one thing I know about bell ringing didn’t turn up until fairly late in the piece, and I’m not going ...

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The authors braved my Reviews page and sent me an ARC for the purposes of scribbling a few words about it. ARC? It means Advanced Reading Copy and that means there are things that may not be found in the final product, therefore, some of the things I mention you may not see. ...

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The Murder Game – Joan Flanagan The premise of this book is interesting. You’ve got a rather demented host, both he and his family enjoy playing practical jokes on each other and their guests. This has been going on since the year dot and when host Bart decides to host ...

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25 minutes before the time I like to publish an article on my blog every weekday and I’m struggling for an idea. I’ve had a couple of little ideas in my head for the past hour or so as I do other things and couldn’t make them work so I ...

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Squid Ink chases Herrings It must be useful to have so many tentacles, I wouldn’t mind being able to hold onto other things while holding my book up like this. It also makes it easier for Squid Ink to chase the Five Red Herrings at once. I’m sure Dorothy L ...

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I’ve been wanting to read a Peter Straub book since I found him on Twitter some time ago, I finally found the time and the book altogether and was very pleased with the result.  Here’s the description from the back of the book. On the tiny Caribbean island of Mill ...

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Squid Ink reads Poirot Poirot (by Agatha Christie) is probably the most loved of fictional detectives. There are two more who spring to mind as being fairly closely loved and they are Miss Marple (also written by Agatha Christie) and Sherlock Holmes. These three detectives are very different personalities and ...

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Sucked In - Shane MaloneyI’ve spoken about The Murray Whelan Thrillers before. They’re a good set of books and they highlight the Melbourne political scene very nicely. In this book Murray is in the Upper House of the Victorian Parliament currently ‘doing the rounds’ having a working lunch with his ...

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