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I've just finished "The Golden Rule" by Amanda Craig. Taking inspiration from "Strangers on a Train" two women and a chance meeting whilst travelling from London down to Cornwall with a carriage to themselves. During the course of the journey, discussions about their prospective relationship problems arise and apropos of those, one of the women the more dominant force, coerces the other in a conspiracy to murder each others husbands. The narrative however doesn't unfold in a predictable way, many twists and turns. Whilst the main thrust of the plot is the muderous intentions of these two characters, the backdrop of the book is very much a state of the nation comment. Amanda Craig deftly puts across the pros and cons of Brexit set in a Cornwall of the have and have nots. I enjoyed this book very much, some similar themes to her last one "The Lie of the Land". Both these novels have been compared to Jonathan Coe's "Middle England" which I have also read, but imo Amanda Craig's book are better.

Just finished The Silent Treatment , I read. it in two days,
did enjoy it some of it was a bit long winded and more or less guessed what way it was going but well worth a try

I've recently read 'Allie and Bea' and 'Worthy'. both by Catherine Ryan Hyde, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and 'The Woman in the White Kimono' by Ana Johns, which I quite liked, but not my favourite.

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I recently finished "Moonflower Murders" by Anthony Horowitz, which is an Agatha Christie pastiche, featuring quirky private investigator, Atticus Pund, no prizes for guessing who he is based on. It's written in a book within a book format and the crime connects the two narratives. I enjoyed it.

I have Robert Galbraith's "Troubled Blood" waiting for me, my husband has just finished it he liked it a lot, it's quite a tome, nearly 1000 pages so I'm hoping Strike and Robin's relationship will have moved forward, but the end of it at least.

Richard Osman's book sounds quite good it's certainly riding high in the charts at the moment.

The Thursday Club Richard Osman

It is light hearted and a real pleasure.

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth” by Frances Wilson, even with the gold writing on the cover which usually puts me off.
The relationship between Dorothy and her brother was unusually intense, she devoted her whole life to him, fascinating. get-mxplayer.in

I'm a third the way though Jodi Picoult's book Small Great Things, about a black nurse and a white supremacist in the US.

A lovely book “The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth” by Frances Wilson, even with the gold writing on the cover which usually puts me off.
The relationship between Dorothy and her brother was unusually intense, she devoted her whole life to him, fascinating.

I've just downloaded The Thursday Murder Club but haven't yet started it. At the mo, I'm barrelling through Anne Cleeves' Vera books, having only just discovered her (the author, not the detective). I read all the Shetland books in a week. A box set of the Shetland series will be on my Christmas list for sure.

Suddenly after many years in the wilderness, I'm back to reading voraciously. This thread is GN gold - as they say.

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I have just finished the latest by BA Paris, The Dilema. I read it in a day, just couldn't put it down.

Re reading all the Susan Hill ‘Serailler’ books Enjoying them all again

I'm looking for books to read or download onto my Kindle
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Furret ! You owe us an explanation !

Maggiemaybe

Furret

Callistemon you clearly didn’t get the reference to outside of Yorkshire or you wouldn’t have relied ‘perhaps because...’.

I clearly didn’t get it either. Why not enlighten us?

I didn't get it, sorry, and I still don't, really.

A week into lockdown God was spotted walking round Yorkshire. When asked what he was doing he said “Working from home “.

Furret

maggiemaybe don't you think that Alexander whatever his name is must be the most boring man outside of Yorkshire? ?

Outside of Yorkshire ? Explain?

Furret

Callistemon you clearly didn’t get the reference to outside of Yorkshire or you wouldn’t have relied ‘perhaps because...’.

I clearly didn’t get it either. Why not enlighten us?

Reading ‘The Bridled Tongue’ by Catherine Mayrick. Set in Elizabethan England, there’s an element of “Oh for Gods sake, get on with it!” about it, but I’ll stick with it.

Callistemon you clearly didn’t get the reference to outside of Yorkshire or you wouldn’t have relied ‘perhaps because...’.

Furret

maggiemaybe don't you think that Alexander whatever his name is must be the most boring man outside of Yorkshire? ?

Perhaps because he's always very pleasant and not acerbic.
He is a comedian too but perhaps Pointless pays well!

I enjoyed The Miniaturist, but wasn’t so taken with The Essex Serpent.

Agreed

He’s not the most charismatic, imho. Richard’s got a lot more about him.