I love the Ruth Galloway series. Picking up the latest one in
the series did not disappoint, it's much like slipping into an old, comfy shoe.
My favorite part of the experience is the magnificent setting of the Norfolk
coast in England, that is the usual backdrop to whatever mischief is afoot. Just
like all the ones before it, the beloved characters come to life within the
framework of a top-notch mystery.
This is another stellar addition to the series, but
bittersweet because... it's the last one (sniff). I'm sad there will be no more.
Goodbyes are hard.
The unmissable new book in the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. Ruth and Nelson are working on a murder case in which Cathbad emerges as the prime suspect. Can they uncover the truth in time to save their friend?
'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times
'SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK. INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India Knight
When builders renovating a cafe in King's Lynn find a human skeleton behind a wall, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the nearby University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the…
I happened
upon a copy of this author's first novel, and all other activity stopped. The
plot sucked me right in and kept me there.
This novel exemplifies incredible
storytelling, which makes it so sad it is out of print and the author unknown. A
movie resulted from the novel in 1972, and the trailer (same title as the novel)
really captures the gothic suspense and macabre tone of this work. In sum, it
is hard to find stories of this caliber anymore.
A red mask mystery. Her husband has been killed in Vietnam, her baby due in three weeks with no money, no family support only the words of her husband, "You'll like my Mother". A trip of terror and knife-edge suspense.
I’m a big
reader of memoirs… but I tend to steer clear of celebrity ones. I fell into this
memoir written by a “Brat Packer” because the Camino is a dream of mine ---I
read anything related. McCarthy does an excellent job at conveying this
setting, towns and countryside alike.
Also, like
the author, I grab opportunities to spend time with my sons, who are a similar
age to Sam, his son. As the years go by, opportunities diminish…. stolen
moments become more treasured. This aspect of the memoir was so poignant that I
didn’t want it to end and dragged it out for the vicarious experience.
This
compelling tale has inspired me to read this author’s earlier memoirs and also
makes me still want to walk the Camino.
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like…
California plains in the 1850s. After losing his mother to cholera on the wagon train out west, Emmet Campbell mostly fends for himself in the boom town of Colusa, California, where he and his busy and ambitious father settle. Coming of age for Emmet means hiding in the corners of his father's new saloon, scrounging for food in the local brothels and finding refuge in tunnels underneath Colusa's Chinatown. With equal measures of the dark and the light, Campbell's Boy is a tender tale about a boy whose fractured beginnings lead him on a journey through life that reveals what it can mean to be human.
