Larkspur's Quest by Emily Larkin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In the last of the Fey Quartet, this is the story of the youngest of the Miller daughters. Larkspur is determined to acquire a new Faerie wish so that she can help Ivy. But how, and who can help her.
An entertaining little story (mature content)

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The Face in the Target by G. K. Chesterton: Super Large Print Edition of the Classic Political Mystery Specially Designed for Low Vision Readers with a Giant Easy to Read Font by G.K. Chesterton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Harold Marsh,reviewer and critic, is visiting Torwood Park, owned by Canadian Jefferson Jenkins. Approaching the estate he meets Horne Fisher, cousin to Howard Horne, M.P.,who is a guest on the estate. They witness a fatal car accident, dead is Sir Humphrey Turnbull. Considering the accident how is he dead. Horne Fisher investigates.
An interesting little mystery

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Death in White Pyjamas: & Death Knows No Calendar by John Bude
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1 - Death in White Pyjamas
A Country House Mystery originally published in 1942
Old Knolle house in Sussex, is the home of Sam Richardson, a wealthy theatre promoter and owner of the Beaumont Theatre. Theatre producer Basil Barnes, lives nearby in Fallow Cottage, on the outskirts of the Lambdon village. Over time the actors stay at Old Knolle house to rehearse the latest play that they will perform. The story shows the various interactions between the characters, and relating the various motives, which in its slow build up, will climax in a death.
Inspector Harting investigates.
An entertaining and well-written mystery.
2 - Death Knows No Calendar
A Locked Room Scenario. John and Lydia Arundel have organised a party to their official opening of their licensed premises, The Little Bottel, in Beckwood. One of the invited is Major Tom Boddy an amateur sleuth. Later Lydia is found dead and the police believe it to be a suicide. Boddy with his sidekick Syd Gannon investigate. Over time they eliminate their suspects, determine who the guilty party is, and discover the clues that show motive and method.
A enjoyed this interesting story, but what I didn't care for was for me the overuse of the vernacular, and the lisp speech.
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Ivy's Choice by Emily Larkin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What will lame Ivy wish for from her Faerie godmother when it is her birthday. Unfortunately preceding events mean that she may not get what she really wanted.
An enjoyable short story

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Revisit Mansfield Park: How Fanny Married Henry by Sarah Ozcandarli
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In this Mansfield Park variation we have a short resume of the book itself up to Fanny's visit to her parents home in Portsmouth. Meeting Henry Crawford there, and analysing her feelings towards him and her cousin Edmund, she finds that her feelings start to change. But will there be happy endings for her and the Bertrams.
An enjoyable re-read of this story

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The Devil's Gift by Laura Landon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

There is some undefined danger in the life of Sheridan, the 11th Earl of Devlin. But before he can confide in his brother Jackson Rafferty, he is killed. But Rafferty has a plan to get inside Baron Kingston's home and discover the evidence that the Baron killed his brother.
But the Baron is in hiding. What plan does her stepmother Eleanor and Eleanor's brother have for Jenevieve Kingston,and why. Can Jenevieve and Jackson every come to trust each other. Didn't really take to Jenna, her character or her actions. Certainly not enough mystery for me.
Overall an enjoyable Victorian romance mystery



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Mr Campion's Seance by Mike Ripley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1940 Evadne Walker-Pyne nee Childe, war widow, has just delivered her latest murder mystery book to her publishers before she travels to Essex to stay with her elderly mother.
Campion and Evadne, share a god-mother, which she discovers when he delivers two Belgian army men to stay at her home, the Mill House.
1946 Superintendent Oates informs Campion that the latest Childe novel - The Bottle Party Murder - depicts the Grafton Club murders of December 1945, which occurred after the book was written. But this is only the first time. When the plots are kept secret how is it possible.
A well-written and interesting crime mystery which spans the years from 1940 to 1962
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