Featuring great recommendations and me. I’m talking about a truly brilliant Agatha Christie, in very good company. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d... - ThreadSky

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janecasey.bsky.social • 78 days ago

Featuring great recommendations and me. I’m talking about a truly brilliant Agatha Christie, in very good company. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/21/the-best-crime-novels-to-read-christmas

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sevenpitches.bsky.social•78 days ago

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bibliorefuses.bsky.social•78 days ago

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northofcam.bsky.social•78 days ago

Ooh lots of good one there, I like that Val McDermid has recoomed Reg Hill - he was a school friend of my dad's

janehill.bsky.social•77 days ago

Great choice. I’ve always wanted to read/watch a series involving Lucy Eyelesbarrow solving crimes, incidentally.

janecasey.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yes, she feels really wasted in a single novel! I wonder if AC intended to go back to her and didn't get a chance to.

janehill.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yeah, I wondered if she intended her as a way to keep Miss Marple realistically solving murders.

janecasey.bsky.social•77 days ago

I would guess so. She goes to such lengths to establish her (and I really enjoy the fact that she's the dream solution to the intractable problem of no decent servants after the war. You can really see what was bothering AC!).

janehill.bsky.social•77 days ago

I feel she is a kind of good twin to Mary Dove in A Pocketful of Rye.