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With the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II, the royal family has been in the news once again. While fascination with the royal family rarely wanes, the younger generations tend to grab all t...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/10/ive-got-my-pearls-to-keep-me-warm.html

  People who are arrested for serious crimes today look for any mitigating factors to deflect blame from themselves. Murder by the Book proves that this tactic is nothing new. In 1840 the elde...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/09/nix-my-dolly.html

  Everyone who goes away to begin college or university can relate to the feelings of wanting to fit in and "find your tribe." Clare is no different. She heads to Edinburgh to begin her studie...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/09/the-things-authors-do-to-us-readers.html

  The 1986 unsolved murder of then Prime Minister Olaf Palme has remained one of the world's great mysteries. It is the backdrop of Blaze Me A Sun, where the first in a series of murders takes...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/09/is-there-any-meaning.html

  Poor Queen Victoria is 80 and really not amused this time. Just as work is beginning on the extension that will become the Victoria and Albert Musuem, a man is found dead at the construction...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/09/setting-many-cats-among-many-pigeons.html

  Picture it: Paris 1949.  The city is still recovering from the devastation of WWII.  Julia Child and her husband Paul have recently moved to Paris due to his job with the diplomatic servic...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/09/a-little-mayo-goes-long-way.html

A delicious Christmas mystery set in a spooky isolated old house with a group of estranged cousins will certainly get us all in the mood for the holiday season. The Christmas Murder Game bring...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/09/mrs-castle-with-carving-knife-in-hallway.html

Mma Ramotswe and her friends are back solving problems big and small in the latest visit to Botswana and the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.  The book begins with Mma Makutsi, partner in the fi...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/08/there-had-been-day-when-you-could.html

  If you ever think you're having a bad day, it's nothing compared to the day Amber Jamison is having at the start of Killing Me. Just a few months shy of graduating with a degree in psycho...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/08/harm-to-animals-followed-by-throwing-up.html

Things aren't looking too good for Callie in The Lying Wife as she informs us in the first few sentences of the book that she's a wife, mother, friend and murderer.  She's being interviewed b...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/08/is-it-really-as-bad-as-it-seems.html

  The events in the novel go back and forth between 1994 and 2019 in the small town of Wakarusa, Indiana.  In the 1994 chapters, the events and aftermath of the di...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/07/other-times-it-dragged-like-molasses.html

  Audrey Lavery has always had a bit of an unsettled life. Her actress mother has been successful on the stage, but not so much when it comes to long-term relationships. Due to her mother's co...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/07/weird-thoughts-about-sepsis-and-turnips.html

  Grace Bernard has had a fairly rough life, even before she ended up in prison.  Her young French mother, who came to London to be a model, gets pregnant during a whirlwind affair.  It turn...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/07/whacked-in-face-with-suitcase-full-of.html

  While Iona Iverson's second rule of commuting is "Never talk to strangers on the train," due to her flamboyant persona, she attracts a lot of attention during her daily train journey to her ...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/03/be-more-iona.html

  I'm always thrilled to see there's a new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency adventure.  Stepping into Botswana and into the gentle world of Mma Ramotswe is such a pleasure.  This new adventure...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/03/who-are-these-people-anyway.html

  Christine Donovan is living a complicated life. She's busy keeping up with her active toddler Heidi, recently married her long-term boyfriend Greg, and is carrying on a torrid affair with a ...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2022/02/so-many-suspects.html

Helen is pregnant after several miscarriages and signs herself and her husband up for prenatal classes.  When her husband doesn't attend the first class, she pairs up with the only other singl...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/11/lovely-setting-for-mystery.html

  Having lived in Sweden for a while, I'm always happy to read books by Swedish authors that transport me back to that beautiful country.  A few years ago we met Maud in An Elderly Lady is Up...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/10/certain-problems-have-only-one-solution.html

  This book kept me guessing right to the end!  Lux McAllister is somewhat adrift.  Estranged from her father, when her mother dies she feels she's all alone in the world.  That is until sh...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/09/it-sounds-like-paradise-but-is-it-really.html

Stan and Joy Delaney are at loose ends in Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty.  Their four adult children are all out living their own lives, and they've recently sold their tennis school.  Th...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/08/tennis-balls-and-apple-falls.html

  Alice seems to be living the perfect life in The Therapist .  She's just moved to London to be with her boyfriend Leo, with whom she's been having a long-distance romance.  You'd think tha...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/06/keep-your-secrets-close.html

  Nora is a stressed out working wife and mother who's just asking for a little help from her spouse in The Husbands.  Although her husband, Hayden, helps out occasionally and will do specifi...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/05/working-women-dont-have-stepford.html

  Far from looking forward to their weekly bingo game for some entertainment, the four members of the Thursday Murder Club hold meetings in their retirement community (when they can squeeze in...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/05/no-time-for-knitting.html

  Grace Bennet and her friend Viv are beyond excited to have finally escaped their small village of Drayton for the bright lights of London in August 1939.  Friends since childhood, they had ...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/05/where-literary-conversations-are.html

  Christopher "Kit" Marlowe is known both for his plays and for his untimely death at the age of only 29, purportedly after a disagreement over a bill at a tavern.  In A Tip for the Hangman, ...

http://www.angloaddict.com/2021/05/leaving-you-in-care-of-illiterate.html