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Midsomer Marple & The Dead Religious Guy

April 12, 2014 by popcultureboy 1 Comment

Continuing my brain dead decompression from the lengthy Booker challenge finds me reading the 13th instalment of the Agatha Raisin books. At the start of the year, for a brief window, the entire series (apart from the recently published latest instalment, the brilliantly titled Something Borrowed, Someone Dead. I’m going to just go ahead and say the death in that one is wedding related), was just 84p a piece on Kindle. So I bought them all. They are the perfect palate cleansers in between bigger and better […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR6, Agatha Raisin, crime, Curious Curate, M.C. Beaton, mystery, whodunnit

popcultureboy's CBR6 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #CBR6, Agatha Raisin, crime, Curious Curate, M.C. Beaton, mystery, whodunnit ·
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Midsomer Marple Gets Wet

April 10, 2014 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

So here we are. After the mind numbing banality and apparently endless pages of The Kills, I needed something to decompress. Something easy, something short, something that I can take my brain out for and still enjoy. Who better fulfils that remit that Miss Marple by way of Midsomer Murders? As some of you may be aware, I’ve read a fair few of these books and this instalment is number 12 in the still ongoing series. Not bad when you consider the author is knocking on 80 years old. When we […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR6, Agatha Raisin And The Day The Floods Came, crime, Fiction, M.C. Beaton, mystery, whodunnit

popcultureboy's CBR6 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #CBR6, Agatha Raisin And The Day The Floods Came, crime, Fiction, M.C. Beaton, mystery, whodunnit ·
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