“The servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s…”
Tag: 4/5 star
“’All good things must end,’ said Frances Price. She was a moneyed, striking woman of sixty-five years, easing her hands into black…”
“Gordon Edgley’s sudden death came as a shock to everyone – not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the…”
“Stephen pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform. Overhead a dim fog clouded the station. Large engines…”
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news. Alex Rider was woken by the first chime. His eyes flickered open…”
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood…”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by…”
All of my 4/5 star book reviews for brilliant novels with minor drawbacks!