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Sister Mary Murderous

Favorite genres are traditional mystery, police procedurals, espionage, Eurocrime, literary fiction and nonfiction history, especially WW2 and Cold War.  I write about crime fiction at Read Me Deadly (www.readmedeadly.com)

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Three-Martini Lunch - Suzanne Rindell
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul - Clara Bingham
Once a Crooked Man: A Novel - David McCallum
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Three-Martini Lunch - Suzanne Rindell
reviewed: Fear and Consequence
The competitive world of New York publishing in the 1950s comes to life in Suzanne Rindell’s second novel, after The Other Ty...
Three-Martini Lunch - Suzanne Rindell
April 2016
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Murder by Death - Toujours Provence
One of Mayle's follow-ups to A Year in Provence (there are at least two), this one read more like a collection of short essay...
April 2016
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Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul - Clara Bingham
reviewed: A blast from the past for Baby Boomers. Interesting for others, too
It’s a strange feeling when your formative years are suddenly treated as part of History with a capital H. But it makes sens...
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul - Clara Bingham
January 2016
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Once a Crooked Man: A Novel - David McCallum
reviewed: How NOT to Plan for Retirement: Crime Boss Edition
Things go elaborately and spectacularly wrong when the Bruschetti brothers decide to retire from the crime business, and New ...
Once a Crooked Man: A Novel - David McCallum
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Abandoned by user - An instinct for self-preservation is overrated
Agatha winner from 2001. Set in turn of the century New York, Molly Murphy has fled her native Ireland after fending off the ...
September 2015
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Reflections - The language angle on American history
Once the Revolutionary War ended, the grammar wars began. What sort of English should the citizens of the brand new, still ex...
September 2015
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Abandoned by user - Reading progress update: I've listened 60 out of 600 minutes.
I've owned the kindle version of this book for ages, but hadn't gotten to it yet. Voila - with the audio upgrade program, for...
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SusannaG - Confessions of a Crazy Cat Lady - The Crime at Black Dudley
The Crime at Black Dudley is the first Albert Campion mystery. It came out in 1929, and is probably best compared to Agatha ...
September 2015
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Hol - City of Thieves by David Benioff
For a book that took place during WW2, specifically the siege of Leningrad, this was quite a light read. That was probably be...
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