Peter Grainger

My Favorite Books with Music as a Plot Element
24 Festive Tasks: Door 21 – Kwanzaa, Task 2: Music is an important part of a Kwanzaa celebration. Which is / are your favorite book(s) where music plays an important role in the plot? In no particular order, books (of all genres, except for artist biographies)* that I love where music plays an important […]
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Responding to Moonlight Reader’s “call for papers (= titles / authors)” — there are quite a number of excellent lists out there already; anyway, here’s my contribution … or a first draft, at least. Links go to my reviews (or status updates / summary blog posts / author pages) to the extent I’ve posted any. […]
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Peter Grainger: An Accidental Death
The British Police Procedural Is Alive and Well … and I have found yet another favorite new series! Never let it be said that there are no great new voices in British crime writing, and on top of that, two of my most recent discoveries — Joy Ellis’s Jackman & Evans series and Peter Grainger’s […]
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Peter Grainger: An Accidental Death – Reading Progress Update: 4 of 412 Minutes
Hah. Serendipity! I just finished a book from Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn series … and guess what the name of the superior officer of this book’s protagonist (DS Smith) is? Detective Superintendent Allen! Reading this for square no. 48 of Snakes and Ladders (“a book you acquired in February 2019). So much for clearing Mt. […]
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