Tag Archives: True Crime

Ngaio Marsh Awards Blog Tour: The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie: Murder, Politics and Revenge in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand (2015) by David Hastings

Posted on September 12, 2017 by

Source: Review Copy (Auckland University Press) Today, the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards blog tour has reached its next pit stop. A month or so ago Craig Sisterson (a judge for the Awards and also writer of the New Zealand crime … Continue reading →

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Deadly Beloved (1952) by John Stephen Strange

Posted on November 28, 2016 by

Strange is a writer I am sure I came across at this year’s Bodies from the Library conference, on the back of which I bought this book. Strange was the penname for Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett and Deadly Beloved (1952) is … Continue reading →

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