Blogs in August 2024

Murder at the Castle 15th August 2024

1 Miss Merkel Mystery Forget Miss Marple. Here comes Miss Merkel. After a gruelling stint as the most powerful woman in the world, Angela can finally put her feet up. With her dorky quantum-chemist husband Achim and their new...

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The Dead of Jura 22nd December 2020

(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...

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Why We Took the Car 15th July 2020

Mike doesn’t get why people think he’s boring. Sure, he doesn’t have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he’s never invited to parties. But one...

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Visitation 4th October 2017

By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams – a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within...

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Elizabeth and her German Garden 1st January 1970

May 7th — There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the...

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