Last for September

THE MARRIAGE HEARSE: KATE ELLIS

Product Description
When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fiance, Peter, knew nothing about. But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that July day in South Devon. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl makes her wedding vows. And a few days later her bridegroom is found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. As Wesley investigates he suspects that his death and his bride's subsequent disappearance might be linked to Kirsten's murder. Meanwhile the skeleton of a young female is found buried in a farmer's field - a field that once belonged to the family of Ralph Strong, an Elizabethan playwright whose play, "The Fair Wife of Padua" is to be performed for the first time in four hundred years. Is this bloodthirsty play a confession to a murder committed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1? Or does it tell another story, one that might cast light on recent mysteries?

Last title my library has so this finishes the series for me.

TEST OF WILLS: CHARLES TODD

From Library Journal
Inspector Ian Rutledge, a British veteran of the Great War secretly still suffering from shell-shock, returns to his Scotland Yard job in hopes of exorcizing his private demons. However, a devious higher-up has learned of his Achilles heel and gets Ian assigned to a potentially explosive and career-damaging case,a murder involving a decorated war hero, a beautiful ward, and a shell-shocked witness. Strong, elegant prose; detailed surroundings; and sound plotting characterize this debut historical.

A new series found. Well plotted, good characters. I have the next one on reserve.

TILL THERE WAS YOU: LYNN KURLAND

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Zachary Smith is finished with high-maintenance women, impossible clients, and paranormal adventures. But when he walks through a doorway into a different century—and meets Mary de Piaget—he knows his life isn't going to turn out quite the way he planned.

One of the few "romance" novels I still read. I like the time travel aspect and I like the intertwining of main families throughout the series.

books:3

MOVIES:
State of Play... oh hum. The BBC mini series it based itself on was far superior in acting and story development.

Duplicity .. Julia Roberts, Clive Owen. Oh dear. Thankfully we got it free.

Xmen Origins Wolverine ... mindless fun.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button .. a tad long but better than I had expected from the previews

Lost In Austin ... delightful.


Month End: 13
To date : 91