Looking at my list of books read, I'm quite far behind on talking about books of interest. Here's a quicky update on some of them:

Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair was another excellent mystery. This one is about a country solicitor whose peaceful life is interrupted when he called in to help two local women who are accused of kidnapping a ( Read more... )

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey was a great treat to read curled up on the couch a couple of weekends ago. I have joined the ranks of those of you who told me that you love this book. SLIGHT SPOILERS ( Read more... )

Instead of recent books I’ve read, I thought I’d discuss some of the books I haven’t finished this year. I’ve actually finished nearly all of the books I’ve properly started (i.e. not just read a few pages and decided it wasn’t for me) this year and was starting to think I’m either mellowing with age or getting better at picking out books. But ( Read more... )

The daughter of Time by Josephine Tey* is yet another book I read and enjoyed ages ago, but didn’t blog about it. I was reminded about it when I read Sovereign (by C.J. Sansom) last week as they have similar subject matter.

At first glance The daughter of time would seem to have a fairly standard basis for a mystery novel - a bored cop solves an ( Read more... )