The murder victim: Lady Jane Winters, a bullying gossip columnist who's attending the local fishing school (this is salmon and trout country)-and loudly broadcasts the fact that she knows something hidden and unsavory about each of her fellow students. The setting is the Scottish Highlands, the detective is laid-back village constable Hamish MacBeth-and those are, alas, just about the only pluses in this awkwardly written mystery. Marion Chesney passed away on Decemat the age of 83. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936.
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The Russians were plowing through Eastern Europe on their way to Berlin. Realizing she could not tell the whole story in one volume, Washington Post and Slate columnist Applebaum ( Gulag: A History, 2003, etc.) focuses on Poland, East Germany and Hungary and shows how their stories were representative. A Pulitzer Prize–winning author returns with the story of those dark decades in Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union slammed the prison doors on people, cultures and countries. |