Month: September 2022
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“The Things We Do to Our Friends” by Heather Darwent
“But don’t play with me ’cause you’re playing with fire” – these lyrics of The Rolling Stone’s song could be a motto for “The Things We Do to Our Friends” by Heather Darwent. Clare is a young woman who moved from Paris to become a student at the University of Edinburg. Her move was not…
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“A Line to Kill” by Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horovitz’s mystery novels are like the proverbial potato chips – it’s impossible to just have one. “A Line to Kill” is the third installment in the “Hawthorne and Horwitz.” I enjoyed reading the first two, and fortunately, the author enjoyed writing them enough to continue the series. Daniel Hawthorne is the private investigator who…
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“The Sentence is Death” by Anthony Horowitz
In the second book of the “Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery” series, the detective/writer duo returns to solve a new mystery. The celebrity divorce lawyer, Richard Pryce, was found bludgeoned to death in his home, and the murder weapon was a bottle of expensive wine, a gift from his client. Soon, Pryce’s old friend dies in…
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“The Word is Murder” by Anthony Horowitz
After enjoying “Magpie Murders,” I decided I’d like to read more mysteries by Anthony Horowitz. So I came to another one, “The Word is Murder,” the first one in the “Hawthorne and Horowitz” series, and I wasn’t disappointed! Daniel Hawthorne, a former Detective Inspector, approaches Anthony Horowitz, the author of “The Word is Murder,” with…
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“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
A lot of research has been done on people’s responses to robots. In a nutshell, it comes to the fact that the more a robot resembles a person, especially a child but also a friendly-looking animal, the more we tend to feel empathy towards the machine, particularly when we see it in distress. Remember Data from…
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“Devil’s Delight” by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green
Agatha Raisin is a free-spirited and elegant woman in her 50ties who runs a private detective agency in the Cotswolds village of Carsely. She is on a new case, and this time the case literally bumped into her. While driving with her assistant Toni to a wedding, a naked man suddenly dashed in front of…
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