Review by robinwalter - Mystery Villa When it comes to that exalted icon of golden age mystery fiction, Dorothy Sayers, I may well b...

12/12

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@deanstpress.bsky.social ended up supplying 25% of the books I labelled #MyTopReadsOf2024 and this tense, atmospheric Bobby Owen story was a great way to round out a dozen.

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Review by robinwalter - Bloody Instructions Before Dean Street Press announced that they would be publishing the first five of her Antony...

11/12

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ANOTHER new-to-me (and to many) author whose debut was a smash hit (for me)

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Review by robinwalter - Information Received Information Received is the first in E. R. Punshon's  Bobby Owen mystery series. The Dean Str...

10/12

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A new-to-me author whose debut was a smash hit (for me) and kicked off #DeanStreetDecember24 on a winning note.

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Review by robinwalter - Hemlock Bay This is the fifth Rachel Savernake book, and the fourth I've read. I've enjoyed all four, but ...

9/11

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Hemlock Bay by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social a great read as a standalone, but if you haven't already, do start from the beginning!
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Review by robinwalter - How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World In The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy there's a passage that reads as follows: ‘So this is ...

8/11
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@debcha.bsky.social amazing book is not only one of my Top reads of 2024, it's one of my most frequent recommendations.

#Nonfiction #Science #History #Engineering

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Review by robinwalter - Black Arsenal In the preface to black Arsenal the purpose and intent of the book is summed up in these words...

7/11
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Dr Clive Nwonka's team may (deservedly) "walk alone" at the top of the EPL right now, but that doesn't change the fact that imo every #Arsenal fan should read his OUTSTANDING book

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Review by robinwalter - An Unholy Drought The second book in the Delhi Quartet series this was a big read. A lot of action-packed histor...

6/11
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September 6 An Unholy Drought - Madhulika Liddle
#HistoricalFiction #India #calligraphy

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Review by robinwalter - Cabaret Macabre Probably my favourite Spector so far. SO MANY of the characters needed killing, and almost all...

5/11
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August 22 Cabaret Macabre by @tommeadauthor.bsky.social

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(As an aside, ebook delivery happens at a significant fraction of c , so there's still time) 😉

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Review by robinwalter - The Annotated Mansfield Park The sharpest and most acidic of Austen's works I've read, but the rapier wit and incontestable...

4/11
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On August 3, I finished what is now my 2nd-favourite #JaneAusten (behind Persuasion)

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Review by robinwalter - The Book Forger A month before reading this book, I read a famous best seller about the history of maritime ho...

3/11
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From March, a true crime #ebook about a true crime ABOUT #books

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Review by robinwalter - The Bangalore Detectives Club A delightful start to the series. I really enjoyed the way the author worked the setting and h...

2/11
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From February, a book set in a time and place my grandmother called home. Also, a book that made me think of the song "It's Istanbul, not Constantinople" - for obvious reasons 😁
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