There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
Amy @ A Bookish Girl is hosting the 2015's Cloak and Dagger Mystery Reading Challenge.Here are the rules for the challenge:1.) The challenge starts January 1, 2015 and ends December 31, 2015.2.) You can read any novel, short story or author just so that the genre is mystery/crime/thriller.3.) 1 novel counts as 1 novel( 1 … Continue reading 2015 Reading Challenge: Cloak and Dagger
And downstairs on the groundfloor there was a vast hall and a huge stairway which led up and into the heights of the big hotel. Through the hall and the bazaar which occupied half its area came and went a procession of Arab horse-dealers, British Governors and Civil Servants, Indian Princes, jewel merchants, Parsi millionaires, … Continue reading Gateway to India: Night in Bombay
Mr. Campion began to understand Marcus' remark of the previous evening: "If I lived in that house I might easily feel like murder myself." That atmosphere of restraint which is so racking in adolescence was here applied to age, and Campion experienced a fear of stumbling upon some weak spot where beneath the rigid bone … Continue reading House of Horrors: Police at the Funeral
It was after midnight when Macdonald heard the faintest of faint sounds on the floor above. Indeed it was hardly a sound at all,more a tiny vibration which told of movement, as though all the resting floorboards communicated a change in stress. As always, after a period of silent waiting, Macdonald felt that faint stirring reflected in … Continue reading The Spider caught in its Own Web: Murder of a Martinet
And the night was so quiet that Sarah could hear, like a whisper in an empty room, the far, faint mutter of thunder from behind the distant mountains of the Nanga Parbat range on the opposite side of the valley. But she had not taken more than two steps towards the hut when she heard … Continue reading Gotterdammerung: The Twilight of the Gods in Death in Kashmir
Ammi: letter to a democratic mother ‘…in the twentieth centurygrief lasts at most a year.’I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as a prelude to a small tale before I go on to the War in iraq. The reason I chose to use this quote is because I wonder how long … Continue reading Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s Ammi
I am all for libraries and the world-wide phenomena of libraries disappearing because of people not interested in borrowing books any longer worries me a great deal. So when I cam across this wonderful challenge hosted by Book'd Out, I simply had to join it. And the Challenge Badge looks good too :).However, since half … Continue reading Reading Challenge: Borrowed Book Challenge
He wondered briefly where Deborah Riscoe had dined, and with whom. Their meeting now seemed part of a different world. Perhaps because he was tired he felt none of the confidence with which he usually began a case. He did not seriously believe that the crime would defeat him. Professionally, he had never yet known … Continue reading Adam Dalgliesh’s Adversary: P.D. James’ A Mind to Murder
I love books about books. So when I saw a book titled Book Lover on the library shelves, I simply had to pick it up. The description – Some women shop.Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing on books – seemed delicious. Unfortunately the book failed to live up to the premise. The story … Continue reading Book Lover: No,not really
I have not made much progress in the reading challenges I've joined so far but now as June too slips away, I need to tighten my belt. So what do I do? I sign up for another challenge. What?! Yes! Given my love for thrillers, cozies, murders, mysteries, mayhem, I simply could not resist it. … Continue reading Reading Challenge: Mystery and Suspense
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