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Pirate’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Pirate’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Pirate Irwin
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in Dublin, Ireland
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James Ellroy, William Ryan, Allan Massie, Louis de Bernieres, William
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July 2012
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The Tortured Detective (Inspector Lafarge #2)
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2014
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The Compromised Detective (Inspector Lafarge #3)
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2017
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The Haunted Detective (Inspector Lafarge #4)
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2018
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War Crimes: An Inspector Lafarge Omnibus
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The Twisted Patriot (Inspector Lafarge #1)
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2011
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5 editions
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The Serpentine Detective: An Inspector Lafarge Novel
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The Redeemed Detective: An Inspector Lafarge Novel
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the war crimes omnibus
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2016
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| Fascinating account of a mission, which I like many I would wager had never heard of, undertaken by Lord Walter Runciman, a distinguished politician, to Czechoslovakia in order to bring a peaceful agreement between the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs. ...more | |
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This is quite a change of tack and time from the author's wonderful Wyndham/Banerjee series set in the days of the Raj but my word he carries it off seamlessly and with elan! Plots abound -- and I refuse to spoil the rollercoaster rock and roll or sho ...more |
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| Mea culpa biographies would not be my tasse du the but I am delighted I made an exception in this case. It is an engrossing account of the maestro Rachmaninoff and his years spent in permanent exile from his beloved Mother Russia, his adored country ...more | |
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| Nicely-written page turner of an espionage thriller set Beirut, a city and whose people I adore despite its turbulence, being attacked by Israel on so many occasions and occupied by Syria too quite apart from the massacres and assassinations both cou ...more | |
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| Collaboration brought out the worst in the French character -- though one can argue that human nature being what it is if Britain had been conquered there would have been collaborators aplenty there too -- and some of the worst characters the great c ...more | |
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Another fabulous story revolving around one of my favourite detectives Kosuke Kindaichi. He of the nervous stutter and the birds nest hair which he scratches furiously when he is in deep thinking mode. Another dark tale of murder on a remote island wh ...more |
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| Chilling whodunnit with a serial killer on the loose in a bleak part of the English countryside, and a cast of largely unlikeable characters..so one does not mind if one or other might be the next victim save the housekeeper Mrs Oates and the princip ...more | |
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Suspenseful Clues and Thrilling Reviews
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An online book club hosted by Chelsea @ The Suspense Is Thrilling Me and Sam @ Clues and Reviews for readers to discuss their current reads and monthl ...more
