The whole idea of Queen Elizabeth solving mysteries is fun to start with. Then throw in royal family oddities, an art theft, a murder, and a rather surprise ending and you've got a perfect mystery. Pure enjoyment. (And getting a peak behind the royal curtains was fun, too)
“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” — New York Times Book Review on The Windsor Knot
Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to the bestseller The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace.
At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. The Queen must deal with the fallout from the Brexit referendum, a new female prime minister, and a…
Hallett tells her story through third person, extraneous emails and teacher reports and college papers. Different fonts and to/from individual names on the email. So clever. One of six students of an online course disappears and suspicion falls everywhere. It's creepy and intense. All the clues are there in the details. Hallett has perfected this particular style, but this latest one is simply the best.
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this unputdownable mystery follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.
Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom for her new master’s program before the university cuts her funding. The students are nothing but trouble from day one.
There’s Jem, a talented sculptor recently graduated from her university program and eager to make her mark as an artist…
Well, it's Horowitz so what more is there to say? His Moonflower Murders are good, but I like his Hawthorne mysteries more. They're so sly. Horowitz writes himself into the story as a rather dense protagonist author and then proceeds to mix fact and fiction as his main detective Hawthorne takes over the solution to a murder mystery. Through it all, the author is having us on. Clever writing but solid plot, and all really fun.
From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.
'Anthony Horowitz is easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times 'Sheer genius ... A joy from start to finish' Independent ___________
Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life.
At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool…
Claire Penwarren, eldest of the four Penwarren half-siblings, arrives with them in England to ready the family dwelling before her father joins them from India in his new position as Earl. Claire is competent and quick, organized and in-charge. She knows what's best for all the members of her family. Except when she doesn't. Her neighbor, the experienced and savvy Marquis of Symonton, becomes her social ally. But Symington has his own agenda when it comes to the Penwarrens. It's true that Claire possesses both maturity and experience, but she has yet to discover that neither is as valuable as love.
The Penwarrens, a light-hearted visit to Victorian England, in the tradition of Georgette Heyer.
