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Mike Ripley in his amusing column at Shots Magazine was kind enough to mention that in 2008 not one of the “expert readers” of Euro Crime picked the eventual winner the name of which he seemed to have forgotten.;0)
Archive for July, 2009
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My review of Ariana Franklin’s Relics of the Dead was sent to Karen of Euro Crime last night as I wanted to be ready to watch the cricket on TV this morning. I missed the first two balls and wickets of the day but watched the rest of a very sad pre-lunch performance by Australia.
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I watched the next Swedish Wallander episode, The Overdose, last night which I had recorded on BBC 4 Monday night.
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The recent deaths of our last Great War veterans Henry Allingham [18 July at 113] and Harry Patch [25 July at 111] have brought an age to a close. Millions went off to war and died or were terribly wounded for what?
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I have started reading Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin and my review will be posted on Euro Crime in due course. The story is set in Glastonbury which gives me the opportunity to post some photographs I took in March this year.
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Cora Bender on a summer outing to the Otto Maighler Lido with her husband and young son has decided to kill herself, but suddenly she attacks and repeatedly stabs with a small fruit knife a stranger.
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Thanks to the lovely Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise for the I Keep Coming Back For More Award.
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This morning the postman brought me a package of four books sent by the kindly Karen of Euro Crime. A further parcel included one book came sent direct from the publisher Transworld. Many thanks Karen.
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On a typical Devon July day, with the rain pouring down outside, I watched a recording of the fourth Swedish Wallander [series one] episode to be shown on British television. For a reason that mystifies me, and I am frequently mystified by the BBC, we were shown episodes one and six previously, these were then repeated and now they have gone on with episodes two and three in the correct order.
It is a bittersweet and sad experience watching this series, and knowing that the brilliant young actress Johanna Sallstrom took her own life in 2007. She was a shining star in Mankell’s Wallander and the series is well worth watching.