Monthly Archives: December 2019

A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Did you get some money for Christmas that you are not sure what spend on? ? A gift card from Amazon? Do you have some time now with family and friends gone, to curl up with a good book?  Well, … Continue reading

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The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans

The Christmas Box was the novella that launched Richard Paul Evans’ career.  Initially he wrote it for his daughters and printed out twenty copies which he gave to family and friends in 1993. It was one of those word of … Continue reading

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A Long Time Coming by Aaron Elkins

Things are not going well for Val Caruso. He just turned forty, his divorce to his second wife is now final and he has just been informed that his promotion to full curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has … Continue reading

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The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

In 1973, Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet intelligence agent became a double agent working for the British intelligence service, MI6.  Gordievsky was an unlikely spy since his parents were both KGB agents and he had lived a fairly affluent life with … Continue reading

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