From the back cover: Margaret Lea, a bookseller's daughter whose own past is a mystery, is contacted by Vida Winter, a venerated author renowned for her secrecy. Vida has always been reclusive, publishing popular "autobiographies" that are anything but the truth. Now, Vida is nearing death, and she wants to tell her last tale—the notoriously missing 13th tale—before her time … [Read more...] about The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: A-
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The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket: C
From the back cover: To: My Kind Editor Top secret—only for readers deeply interested in the Baudelaire case. How I pity those readers. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Review: Cons? Rather pointless and reminds me of the Griffin & Sabine series with its obscure epistolary nature. Pros? Short! No answers are forthcoming in this series of letters, but we do get … [Read more...] about The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket: C
The End by Lemony Snicket: B-
From the back cover: Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of THE END. The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate … [Read more...] about The End by Lemony Snicket: B-
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine: A-
From the back cover: Like most families, they had their secrets—and hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred. They had to fight it out behind closed curtains using every … [Read more...] about A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine: A-
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh: B+
From the back cover: Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary—and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation was a complete success... Review: Wow, a Ngaio Marsh book … [Read more...] about The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh: B+