I want to start by saying I enjoy a “cozy crime”, so before you think that this review is influenced by a snobbery for what counts as good crime fiction, it is not. Now that we have the preliminaries out of the way, I must admit that Osman lost me with this one. I read…
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People We Meet on Vacation
I love an easy read. I have no qualms with sampling a wide array of literature and would even venture to say that I love an easy read. However, while People We Meet on Vacation is an easy read, I wouldn’t say that it was one that I loved. Poppy and Alex had been friends…
Hallowe’en Party
It’s all fun and games until Joyce, a thirteen year-old who claims to have witnessed a murder, winds up dead at a children’s Halloween party. Brought in on request of his friend, Hercule Poirot (a recurring character in Christie’s writing) must dredge up old and forgotten incidents in the sleepy town of Woodleigh Common in order…