When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can’t understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues… she just need someone to help her out.
Gorgeous and outgoing fisherman, Noah, is always up for an adventure. And a scavenger hunt sounds like a lot of fun. Even better that the cute bookseller he’s been crushing on for months is the one who wants his help!
Hazel didn’t go looking for romance, but as the treasure hunt leads her and Noah around Dream Harbor, their undeniable chemistry might be just as hot as the fresh-out-of-the-oven cinnamon buns the bookstore sells…
My Review:
The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore is a fun, romantic read which is perfect to cosy up with this Autumn.
It was great to be back with the fabulous characters visiting Dream Harbour again. This book follows on from The Cinnamon Spice Café but this time the focus is on Hazel and Noah- two characters who were on the edge of the action in the previous book. It was great to get to know them a little bit more and to watch them grow closer over the course of the story. It was fun to learn more about the other characters too and to see how life has been going for them. There’s even a sneaky mention of the new character in the upcoming Christmas book which I thought was very clever.
The action in this book centred around the bookshop which made my bookish heart very happy. I loved following the book clues alongside the couple and seeing where they would take them next. It was so nice to see them start to relax and trust each other as the book goes on as well as seeing Hazel grow in confidence as her relationship with Noah develops. They go on some really fun outings together and I really enjoyed living precariously through them as they experience it both together.
Overall, as you can probably tell, I loved this book and I am really looking forward to reading more books in the series. The book gripped me from the start and I soon found it difficult to put down as I was so invested in the characters. There are a few spicy scenes in this book, but there is also a lovely storyline which I think will definitely appeal to fans of the genre.
About The Author:
Laurie Gilmore writes steamy small-town romance. Her Dream Harbor series is filled with quirky townsfolk, cozy settings, and swoon-worthy romance. She loves finding books with the perfect balance of sweetness and spice and strives for that in her own writing. If you ever wished you lived in Stars Hollow (or that Luke and Lorelai would just get together already!) then her books are definitely for you.
Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday! I had a really exciting day yesterday as the bookshop I work at opened early to celebrate the release of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.
I was very nervous the night before as I was worried about setting everything up so arrived far earlier than I was meant to. It all went smoothly though and we actually had people waiting outside the shop which was great to see.
It was so fun to talk to the Sally Rooney fans and share some pastries with them all. I might have bought a few too many pastries in my excitement but having sampled some of them myself I can confirm they were very yummy!
We actually sold 11 copies of Intermezzo yesterday and won the fun competition we had going between the stores as to who would sell the most.
I was lucky enough to receive an early copy of Intermezzo and thought it was a great read. Do check my profile for the review I posted on Monday.
The pictures below are my morning set up and the window display I did later that day.
Q: Do you play Chess? A: No, I actually had to Google how to set up the chest board in the window as I didn’t know….
Good afternoon everyone and happy Tuesday. I’m mixing it up and doing a Four For Tuesday for once! These are four books I’m reading or hoping to read for book clubs soon.
🎪The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 🍎 North Wood by Daniel Mason 💕A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston 🌬️The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
The Night Circus is the book I’ve chosen for the book club at Rossiter Books that I run and I chose as I wanted to try the group with an easy fantasy read. A Novel Love Story is for the new romance book club that the lovely Eve from @notenoughbookshelfspace has set up. North Wood and The Wind Knows My Name are for The Historical Fiction Book club run by @r4ch4elreads and @thebookdiaryofmisshewlett . If you’d like to join any of the book clubs do contact the tagged people!
I had an exciting day today as the book shop I work at is opened early for the release of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. We had some great goody bags to give away as well as some pastries and orange juice to give out to our customers. I was a bit nervous about setting everything up so I left extra early to ensure I have it all ready. We actually had some people queuing outside which was exciting!
Are you heading out early to buy Intermezzo today? Or if you’re a bookseller is your bookshop opening early today?
Good morning everyone and happy Monday. I’m excited to share my review of the fantastic Intermezzo by Sally Rooney today.
Intermezzo is out tomorrow and at Rossiter Books we are opening early for people who can’t wait to get their hands on a copy. We (and other independent bookstores) have some fantastic tote bags and other goodies to give away with the book as well as some yummy pastries. I’m actually working tomorrow so if you are local come and see us from 8am!
Book Synopsis :
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
My Review:
Intermezzo is a beautifully written, compelling read about how complex relationships can be and the importance of human connection. It’s going to be a difficult book to review as I want to do the book justice but not give anything away at the same time.
The story follows two brothers; Ivan a competitive chess player and Peter a lawyer. Out of the two brothers I much preferred Ivan who seemed gentler and less conceited than his brother which endeared himself to me instantly. My opinion of Peter did change as the book went on as I understood more about his life and everything that he was dealing with. It was very interesting to follow the brothers as they tried to deal with their grief for their father whilst keeping all the other different sections of their life together at the same time.
I thought this book started off slowly while the author sets the scene but quickly becomes very absorbing. The characters seemed so vivid that I felt like I really got to know them and cared about what happened to them as if they were actual friends. As expected the author weaves some very current topics into her writing which I found interesting to explore alongside the characters. Intermezzo was one of those books that I raced through as I was so enjoying but then tried to ration out the last few pages as I really didn’t want it to end.
Huge thanks to Mel from Faber for sending me a copy to review.
About The Author:
SALLY ROONEY was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and The London Review of Books. Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017, she is the author of Conversations with Friends and the editor of the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly.
Good morning everyone and happy Friday. As you probably know the shortlist for The Booker Prize was announced earlier this week.
❤️Held by Anne Michaels 🧡 Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 💛 Orbital by Samantha Harvey 💚 James by Percival Everett 💙The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wood 💜 Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
I normally don’t pay much attention to The Booker Prize as I always think they’ll be too hard for me, however I’m intrigued by this year’s shortlist as I actually already had four of the books already so they must have appealed to me. I’ve also read the first few pages of Held and thought it was really beautiful so maybe the books are more accessible this year.
I’m working a middle shift today which is always fun as I get to work with someone and have a catch up with my colleagues! I’m hoping to fit in a bit of reading before hand and hopefully finish my review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney which I’m finding hard to review as I don’t want to give anything away. We’ve then got the mania of Brownie and Beavers runs before I can relax with a glass of wine.
Will you be reading any of the short list? What’s your thoughts on the booker prize?
All the books are out now in hardback apart from Orbital and Held which are out in paperback. You can find out more about the books below ⬇️
Held by Anne Michaels
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls.
1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand.
So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.
Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Seductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.
Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.
Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno’s idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.
Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Life on our planet as you’ve never seen it before
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part – or protective – of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
James by Percival Everett
Enthralling and ferociously funny, James by Percival Everett is a profound meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love. It is also a bold reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as the enslaved Jim emerges to reclaim his voice and defy the conventions that have consigned him to the margins.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan.
Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.
With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most dangerous, and life-changing, odyssey of them all . . .
The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge – for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan’s Atonement.
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother’s country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel’s doorstep – as a guest, there to stay for the season…
In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel’s desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known.
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.
But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.
Good morning everyone I hope you are having a great Thursday. I was lucky enough to get a copy of this fantastic sounding book earlier this week.
I do love reading spooky books, especially in the Autumn and the run up to Halloween so this book instantly appeals to me. It looks like it’s short stories which should be fun to dip in and out of so I’m very excited to read it soon.
Haunted is out now and you can find out more by swiping for the synopsis.
Huge thanks to @manilla_press for sending this to me!
Do you believe in ghosts?
Book Synopsis:
We all know the same ghosts: it’s simply a question of how doggedly they haunt us.
Part-chilling tale, part-memoir, part-cultural exploration, Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives takes us through some of the most chilling and enduring ghost stories, and discusses what they reveal about the listener, the teller and the times we live in.
E. Jay Gilbert has been collecting tales of the supernatural from her local area (a small village outside of Newcastle) for years and what surprised her most is how universal those are: not only in terms of recurring spectres that haunt us the world over (I’m looking at you, White Ladies), but also how similar our experience of ghost-telling is, wherever we grew up. The result is a book which explores more widely the ghosts of the British Isles and how they have endured and changed through the ages: how they reflect the communities in which they originate, and how they are similar to and different from similar stories from across the world.
Haunted doesn’t just thrill with the tales of the inexplicable, but also asks why are we so fascinated by ghost stories and what do they tell us about the community and people who cultivate them. Why are some tropes universal, while others are very much unique to the place they haunt? Do we actually care about the identity of the ghost? Or are we more concerned about how the alleged sighting made us feel?
Aimed at both believers and sceptics, it’s not only for those who are looking to be frightened a little, but also for those interested in the psychology and history of the long tradition of supernatural storytelling.
About The Author:
Dr E. Jay Gilbert is a writer, academic and researcher based in Oxford, originally from the north-east of England. She has an MA and MSt from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Leicester and is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at The Open University. She currently co-edits The Banshee, a women’s literary journal with a particular focus on the supernatural.
For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.
These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.
This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.
Out 26th September 2024
My Review:
A Thousand Feasts is a fascinating insight into Nigel’s thoughts and experiences during his time as a professional chef. Through him we visit a range of different countries while he samples a variety of different foods, some of which I hadn’t heard of before reading this book so I enjoyed searching for on the internet. Some of his descriptions were incredibly vivid and I often found my mouth watering as I read, wanting to go out to purchase them immediately. I’m not much of a chef but I found myself getting inspired as I read and wanting to try to cook some of the delicious sounding food as well.
The entries vary in length, with some being just a sentence while others are considerably longer taking up a couple of pages. Each entry gives the reader more of an insight into Nigel’s personality and I often found myself smiling at how much he seems to enjoy the simple pleasure in his life. His appreciation for everything he experiences really shines from the page and it was nice to gradually learn more about his life throughout the book.
If you are a foodie or just someone who like memoirs I think you would love this book. It’s cosy, easy to read format will make it perfect for snuggling up with this Autumn.
Huge thanks to Indie Thinking and 4th Estate Books for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of best-selling books and presenter of BBC 1’s Eating Together, Simple Cooking and Dish of the Day. He has been food columnist for The Observer for over twenty years. His books include the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the critically acclaimed two volume Tender. His award-winning memoir Toast – the Story of a Boy’s Hunger won six major awards and is now a BBC film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore. His writing has won the National Book Awards, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize and the British Biography of the Year. He was the winner of a Guild of Food Writers’ Award for his BBC 1 series Simple Suppers.
Good morning everyone today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring the first two books in the intriguing looking The Finder Mysteries by Simon Mason.
I’m a huge fan of Simon’s and have loved all of his previous books, so you can imagine my excitement about learning he had not just one but two books out! I’ve already started reading Missing Person: Alice and I’m hooked already. Even better it looks like the books in the series are going to match and that always pleases me!
Huge thanks to @anabooks and @riverrun_books for sending these to me i really appreciate it.
Both of these books are out now!
Missing Person: Alice by Simon Mason
The people I work with call me ‘Finder’. I’m a specialist, a finder of missing people.
July 2015, Sevenoaks. 12-year-old schoolgirl Alice Johnson went missing while doing her paper round, her bag found discarded on the pavement. At 08.00, she was spotted standing in heavy rain at the side of the busy by-pass. At 11.00, she was seen talking to the driver of a black car in Tonbridge. After that, nothing. Alice was never found.
Nine years later the body of another schoolgirl, Joleen Price, is pulled from a nearby lake and a local man named Vince Burns detained. Convinced that Burns is guilty in both cases, SIO Dave Armstrong calls in the Finder to investigate the earlier disappearance.
Interviewing those who thought they knew her, the Finder gradually reveals a hidden Alice, a girl of surprising contradictions. Seeking answers from her divorced parents – an over-protective mother, a negligent father – the Finder is forced to consider violently opposing narratives. Was the timid 12-year-old a victim of the predator Burns, as he himself hints? Or was she carrying out a plan of her own?
The Case Of The Lonely Accountant by Simon Mason
Bournemouth 2008, the height of the financial crash. Don Bayliss, a timid and well-mannered accountant, vanishes after leaving his office before a scheduled meeting. His wife is both perplexed and distraught. His clothes are found discarded at the mouth of Poole Harbour.
After seven years of searching with no firm leads, the investigation is closed, and Don is presumed dead.
Until, sorting through his possessions, his wife finds a garish business card of one Dwight Fricker and decides it must be of some importance. Now more than eight years after his disappearance Dorset Police call in the Finder and the cold case is reopened.
The Finder begins with the last sightings of Don on the day he went missing, hearing how he seemed in a hurry, somewhat distracted? He unearths a string of overlooked clues that lead him to face the unlikely friendships that Don had made, the somewhat overbearing nature of Mrs Bayliss, the secrets that haunted him in his home life and the mistakes that led to him being investigated at work.
The Case of the Lonely Accountant is a dark and rich mystery that centres upon one lonely man and reveals the distance between those who are missing and those who are lost.
About The Author:
Simon Mason is a writer of fiction. At first he wrote books for adults, then books for children, which grew up at roughly the same rate his own children grew up, and now he is back writing books for adults again.
THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY’S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.
A MURDER
The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh – the Black Loch – on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.
A SECRET
Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.
A RECKONING
But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution.
The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.
My Review:
The Black Lock is an intriguing, powerful read that is much more than your normal crime book.
The story is told in two timelines, one following Macleod as he tries to absolve his son of murder and the other flashing back to Macleod’s past where we discover what secrets are lurking there. Out of the two timelines I definitely preferred the one set in the present as it was more fast paced and I found it very interesting to follow Macleod on his murder investigation. The past timeline, though important, was slower and I often found myself impatient to get back to the present investigation.
I thought this book was very clever as it was more than just a murder investigation with the author exploring some quite serious topics throughout the book too. The author has created some brilliant characters with some quite complex needs and it was interesting to see these developed in the story. It’s not an easy read at times because of this but I thought these issues were dealt with sensitively by the author.
Overall I really enjoyed this book and was excited to be back with Macleod solving another murder case with him. I thought the book was quite well paced and there always seemed to be something happening to keep my interest. It was interesting to learn more about Macleod’s past and to see how the Island had changed since our last visit. The author cleverly weaves the two timelines together and I loved seeing how everything was resolved, especially as I hadn’t been able to guess the outcome.
Huge thanks to Poppy and Sophie from Ransom pr for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
“Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth” New York Times
Peter May is the multi award-winning author of:
– the Lewis Trilogy set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland;
– the China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell;
– the Enzo Files, featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, which is set in France. The sixth and final Enzo book is Cast Iron (January 2017, Riverrun).
He has also written several standalone books:
– I’ll Keep You Safe (January 2018, Riverrun)
– Entry Island (January 2014, Quercus UK)
– Runaway (January 2015, Quercus UK)
– Coffin Road (January 2016, Riverrun)
May had a successful career as a television writer, creator, and producer.
One of Scotland’s most prolific television dramatists, he garnered more than 1000 credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.
Born and raised in Scotland he lives in France.
His breakthrough as a best-selling author came with The Lewis Trilogy. After being turned down by all the major UK publishers, the first of the The Lewis Trilogy – The Blackhouse – was published in France as L’Ile des Chasseurs d’Oiseaux where it was hailed as “a masterpiece” by the French national newspaper L’Humanité. His novels have a large following in France. The trilogy has won several French literature awards, including one of the world’s largest adjudicated readers awards, the Prix Cezam.
The Blackhouse was published in English by the award-winning Quercus (a relatively young publishing house which did not exist when the book was first presented to British publishers). It went on to become an international best seller, and was shortlisted for both Barry Award and Macavity Award when it was published in the USA.
The Blackhouse won the US Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel at Bouchercon in Albany NY, in 2013.
Good morning everyone and happy Friday. I was lucky enough to be sent a copy of The Usual Desire To Kill by Camilla Barnes this week.
It sounds just my sort of book as I love books about families and the secrets they might be hinting so I’m very excited to read it soon.
Huge thanks to Simon and Schuster for sending this to me.
The Usual Desire To Kill is out on the 10th April 2025 and you can find out more about the book below.
Book Synopsis:
An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer full of food dating back to 1983.
Miranda’s father is a retired professor of philosophy who never loses an argument. Her mother likes to bring conversation back to the War, although she was born after it ended. Married for fifty years, they are uncommonly set in their ways. Miranda plays the role of translator when she visits, communicating the desires or complaints of one parent to the other and then venting her frustration to her sister and her daughter. At the end of a visit, she reports “the usual desire to kill.”
A wry, propulsive, exquisitely observed story of a singularly eccentric family and the sibling rivalry, generational divides, and long-buried secrets that shape them. This is an extraordinary debut novel from a seasoned playwright with a flare for dialogue and, in the end, immense empathy.
About The Author:
Camilla Barnes was born and brought up in England but moved to France in her twenties. She lives in Paris and works in theatre, doing every job possible there except act. She writes for the stage in both English and French. The Usual Desire to Kill is her first novel.
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