Author: elizabeth

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen I’ve been a fan of Anna Quindlen’s work for years.   I was an avid reader of her Pulitzer Prize-winning column for The […]

Still Here

Still Here, The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs The talented Broadway singer, actress, and comedian Elaine Stritch was the definition of her own worst enemy. […]

Standing in the Shadows

Standing in the Shadows a DCI Banks novel by Peter Robinson Alice Poole was murdered in 1980; the case remains unsolved. Decades later, DCI Banks and his team investigate the […]

Spain in Our Hearts

Spain in Our Hearts, Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Adam Hochschild Sum total of my knowledge of the Spanish Civil War: 1-Guernica (the painting not the city) […]

Someone

Someone by Alice McDermott Alice McDermott, a long time chronicler of the Irish American experience, has written the moving story of Marie Commeford, a short sighted girl from Brooklyn. Written […]

The Priory

The Priory by Dorothy Whipple For Jane Austen fans! Although not as subtle as dear Jane’s works, The Priory, published in 1939, will appeal to many Austen fans. Christine and […]

Someone at a Distance

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple The best birthday gift, a box of books! This pretty box of books is from U.K. based Persephone Books. If you are not […]

Snowdrift

Snowdrift by Helene Tursten In Snowdrift, Embla Nyström, a Detective Inspector with the Gothenburg, Sweden, police force, investigates the deaths of two well-known criminals  and a cold case involving a […]

Snow

Snow by John Banville a/k/a Benjamin Black About a decade ago, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville wrote the first in a series of literary crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin […]

QE II Mystery Novels

The QE II Novels by S.J. Bennett S.J. Bennett has written four (to date) novels featuring that amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II.  As you can imagine, the novels are very […]