So, I started Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson when it first came out and got distracted by other things. The past two weeks or so, I’ve been waylaid in bed after some complicated oral surgery, so now that I’m on the mend, I thought I would finish it up. This means, however, that I am …
Prologue (Friday) Three Hours Later Saturday Thirty Hours Earlier Sunday Seventy-Two Hours Earlier Monday A Week Later Epilogue Prologue (Friday) Benjamin Daniels, a journalist, is at his Parisian apartment — at Number 12, Rue des Amants, third floor — working on a story he believes will make his name. His half-sister Jess Hadley is (inconveniently) …
The Paris Apartment is the latest release from mystery-thriller author Lucy Foley. I’d previously read her book The Guest List which was imperfect, but promising enough that I’d been looking forward to her next release. Unfortunately — there’s no point in sugarcoating this — this book is pretty underwhelming and not particularly fun to read. …
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont was high on my list of books to read as soon as I heard about it. As a die-hard Agatha Christie fan, I have always found the story about her 11-day disappearance to be a curious one, and the idea of a book based on it sounded very …
Part I Part II Part III Part I Here Lies Sister Mary The book introduces the narrator (Nan) who says she nearly killed a woman one decade ago. One Day Before: Thursday, 2 December 1926 On December 2, 1926, Nan O’Dea urges her lover, Colonel Archie Christie, to leave his wife. Archie is married to …
