Merryn Allingham
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The Bookshop Murder (Flora Steele, #1)
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2021
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Murder on the Pier (Flora Steele, #2)
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2021
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Murder at Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele, #3)
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2022
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Murder at the Priory Hotel (Flora Steele, #4)
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2022
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Murder at St. Saviour's (Flora Steele, #5)
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2022
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The Library Murders (Flora Steele, #8)
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2024
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Murder in a French Village (Flora Steele, #7)
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2023
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Murder at Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele, #6)
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2023
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Murder at Cleve College (Flora Steele, #9)
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2024
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The Officer's Wife (Daisy Driscoll Sagas #1)
7 editions
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2015
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I loved this book. The writing is so precise, so detailed, and filled with a warm understanding of how it must feel to be split between two cultures. In search of his identity, Gogol, as he grows up, rejects his accidental name. But life will teach h ...more | |
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I loved Amor Towles’ writing style: elegant, wry and perfect for its main protagonist, Count Alexander Rostov. The book taught me a good deal about the early days of Lenin’s rule in Russia but the learning was light, intermingled with comic moments, ...more | |
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The novel begins explosively with the siege of St Malo but after this initial chapter I found the pace a little slow. However, it’s a big story and gradually I came to see that going back to the childhoods of each of the main protagonists was essenti ...more | |
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The novel begins explosively with the siege of St Malo but after this initial chapter I found the pace a little slow. However, it’s a big story and gradually I came to see that going back to the childhoods of each of the main protagonists was essenti ...more | |
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I enjoyed the book - it had me turning the pages - and I was a long way in before I began to question one of the premises on which the mystery/crime is based. Surely, the heroine would have questioned why her mother hadn't gone to the police when she ...more | |
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Another wonderful book by Maggie O'Farrell. I'm a fan of this period of Italian history-I loved Sarah Dunant's In the Name of the Father-and O' Farrell does it proud. The historical background and its complex characters are portrayed so vividly that ...more | |
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I'd read The Family Upstairs a while back and loved it. Lisa Jewell is a brilliant writer, an author who takes you from page to page so smoothly that you hardly realise you're turning them! The plotting in this book was clever but particularly intric ...more | |
“When he'd called Flora impossible, he hadn't been wrong. Once she got an idea into her head, it stuck. She was like a terrier digging for a rabbit, and it was tough luck on anyone who got in the way”
― Murder at the Priory Hotel
― Murder at the Priory Hotel
“There was the offer of a new challenge - you could go stale doing the same thing over and over - and being in daily contact with young, creative minds could only be invigorating”
― The Library Murders
― The Library Murders
“The mystery had grown too intriguing to be given up to the police. It was one that belonged to them”
― Murder at Primrose Cottage
― Murder at Primrose Cottage
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