I’m a HUGE Agatha Christie fan. HUGE. I’ve been reading her mystery novels for over 30 years; they were among the first Grown Up novels I read as a kid and are the basis for my love of mystery novels and tv procedurals. I have read and watched every Poirot and Miss Marple book, movie, episode. So imagine my shock and glee when I discovered that there was an upcoming movie, starring my beloved Gillian Anderson, of a Christie novel that I could not remember […]
“Neither Skewton nor the Thwaites offer the charm of your company, and I’m saying that to a man who spent the night disembowelling cats
First a quick housekeeping note, the publisher of this book went under and the author is working on getting the rights back so she can republish them. Amazon has a few copies left though. I took the gamble of buying the series because I was afraid they would run out and I am glad I did because the first book was fantastic! I read a review for this book here, so thank you cannonball community for another great recommendation. This is a m/m romance and […]
Strange Sisters
When Rosemary is five, she is sent to her grandparents. She doesn’t know what’s happened to her sister Fern. When she is returns home the family has moved from their farmhouse and orchard to a house in town and Fern is gone. Rosemary’s older brother is angry, her mother is grieving and her father starts to drink. What has happened to the missing child, Fern? Well, turns out Fern is a chimpanzee. I came to We are All Completely beside Ourselves biased. A few years […]
They Could Break the Ice by Talking About What He Liked in Bed???
Deacon Thorpe, the first celebrity television bad boy chef is dead. Surviving him is his first wife Laurel (a social worker) and their son Hayes…and his second wife (Oscar winning movie star) Belinda and their adopted daughter Angie…oh and his third wife Scarlett (failed photographer and successful anorexic) and their young daughter (a little girl whose name I can’t remember). His last request is that all three women and all of his children gather together in their summer home American Dream on Nantucket to spread […]