The Jubilee weekend was as good a time as ever to settle down with the 2nd Guy Harford mystery, ”Burying the Crown.” I’d already been googling the Kents and the Gloucesters (as one does), while watching the extended Royal Family on parade, so this delicious whodunnit played perfectly to this …
What a truly delightful book. Funny, clever, compassionate and an intriguing whodunnit. And set in an upmarket retirement village in Kent, of all places. Four friends, all senior citizens, meet once a week to look through old unsolved murder files, purloined by Penny, an original member of The Thursday Murder …
There is something deeply moving, reading an extraordinary book like Fergal Keane’s “Road of Bones” whilst staying in Kohima, the little town that is the centrepiece for the dramatic events of 1944. I was in Nagaland (incidentally the most un-Indian feeling place I have ever been to in 30 years …
