Models The World: Monthly Motif

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Sad Cypress

Sad Cypress (1940) by Agatha Christie The story opens in court. Elinor Carlisle is on trial for her life--accused of poisoning one Mary G...

The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane Jean Holly (not yet Abbott) returns to her home town in Illinois to visit an ailing aunt. She hasn...

Cut to the Quick (1993) by Kate Ross Julian Kestrel--dandy, man about town. Devoted to the gaming tables and the latest Regency-era fashi...

The Ruby Raven (1999) ~Michael Dahl Finn (Finnegan) Zwake lives with his Uncle Stoppard because his parents (archeologists) went missing ...

Black Sun (2020) by Rebecca Roanhorse An epic fantasy novel inspired by various pre-Colombian cultures in the Americas. Readers follow th...

Still Life with Murder (2003) by P. B. Ryan Set in Boston, 1800s. The Hewitt family is one of the wealthy elite who have lost sons to the ...

Murder at the Mortuary (2020) by Lee Strauss The previous book left us with a cliffhanger. Ginger Gold had been investigating two mysterie...

Kim & Tanya have posted their 2022 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge . Click on the link for full details. For this challenge each mont...

Dying Fall (1995) by Judith Cutler As followers of the blog know, I am sucker for academic mysteries and this one had been on my "To ...