My Quiet Life in Suffolk

Thank you to whoever mentioned this authors crime fiction books. I thought I wasn't going to get into it, as there was a bit of a slow s...

 One of my library books that arrived last week  I saw mentioned on a blog and actually know whose blog it was, which makes a change. Angela...

 With nothing much to do in the garden as it's so dry, and it's been too hot for doing anything adventurous so I've already read...

 The July list copied from my Books Read 2026 Page............... Dorothy L Sayers - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. Crime Fiction ...

 I was hoping to pick up at least 7 books from the mobile library today but Rachel rang yesterday to say the van was off the road and wouldn...

....................is, when you think about, a very strange saying . Most weather comes from above so we are always under it. Anyway, I...

 One of BLCC recent reprints was a new author for them - Leo Bruce. It's always interesting to read Martin Edwards introductions to thes...

 A Christmas present book that I read while waiting for the library van day last week.  I've read a couple of his other books and 'D...

 Seems I give up easily! I really tried with the one on the left 'The Crooked Cross' by Sally Carson until it got too depressing. It...

 Eldest Daughter and the two Grandsons in Surrey were due on Tuesday for a three night stay. We were planning to get all the cousins togethe...

Weird weather week here in Mid Suffolk and Wednesday had a really cold wind. Thursday morning a very thin layer of snow on the car roof. Mar...

This is such a well written book, I really enjoyed it once I got into it. The  story  of  Miss White, a woman who lived in  the  author'...

 In January I wrote a post about Winter Books   and   I've got library books reserved about winter that I'll not get to read until s...

   Winter, The Story of a Season  by Val McDermid is a small book but interesting. This is a book about the joys of winter rather than just ...

There is much promoting at the moment of a film called  Hamnet  due out tomorrow. One of my very few trips to cinema in the last 10 years wa...

 I read a total of  108  books in 2025. Almost all were library books - what would I do without them!  As usual mostly crime fiction written...

The first BLCC book that I came across was 'Mystery in White' by J. Jefferson Farjeon which was their 5th book reprinted and timed f...