Month: May 2018

The Heart of Darkness (It’s In My Head)

The Heart of Darkness (It’s In My Head)

It’s scary what goes through my mind at 30,000 feet… ‘If someone just wrenched open that door handle we’d all go flying out, ripped from our seatbelts, and sucked through the cabin, starting with that smug bloke spreading his legs out in the exit row.’ and… ‘Gee that suction in the toilet cubicle is strong. …

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99c Agatha Christie Book Club 3 Sale (Gasp)

99c Agatha Christie Book Club 3 Sale (Gasp)

I promised you a book sale… …and here it is, folks. For just two short weeks—from May 5 to May 19—I’m reducing the cost of the third in my Agatha Christie Book Club series to just 99c. That’s a lot of mystery and mayhem for very little moolah. Evil Under The Stars is one for true Agatha Christie trainspotters. …

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Finding Nimo—The Trials of Naming Kids

Finding Nimo—The Trials of Naming Kids

It seemed like a good idea at the time. I was six months pregnant, snuggled on the couch with my husband, watching a 1950’s remake of the classic Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under theSea. “If it’s a boy we should call him Nemo,” my husband suggested, referring to the book’s renegade submarine Captain. Keep …

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