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Ken Follett: Night over Water

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Ken Follett: Night over Water. 1991.
Ljudbok (BookBeat, 18 h 41 min) + lite från pocket.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, a mismatched group of passengers flee across the Atlantic to escape Britain. Britain has just declared war against Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner, the Pan American Clipper, takes off on its final flight to neutral New York. The passengers aboard the plane each have their own reasons for leaving Britain. Amongst them are an English aristocrat fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist running away from the Nazis; a murderer returning under FBI escort; a wife escaping her controlling husband; and a devious thief determined to keep his spoils.

Karin Erlandsson: Hem

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Karin Erlandsson: Hem. 2022
Ljudbok (5 h 52 min, Åbo stadsbibba)
Uppläsare: Andrea Björkholm

Hem är en kollektivroman där många olika människors livsberättelser avlöser varandra, och där berättelserna blir ett oratorium om hur det är och har varit att leva på Åland.Alltid är det någon som måste bege sig ut på havet, det är alltid någon annan som stannar kvar och är tvungna att förhålla sig till frånvaron. Längtan, oro, lättnad, åtrå, otro – och självständighet. Viktiga episoder i Ålands historia berättas genom skeenden där hemmet står i centrum.

Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic to the Rescue

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Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic to the Rescue. 2016
Storpocket (från kirppis)

Jag har tydligen inte läst någon av Kinsellas böcker sedan jag började sätta in varje bok i bloggen – de var så roliga då jag började läsa dem, men fungerar de månne fortfarande….?
(Jag lyckas inte komma ihåg vilka alla jag läst, men månne jag hade läst ungefär de sju första – + Remember me, som har annan huvudperson – den minns jag nog)
Och nä, inte orkar jag med de här och inte var den rolig…

Sue Townsend: Number Ten

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Sue Townsend: Number Ten. 2002
Pocket (kirppis)

Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. He enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. For the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in this country has to offer – an English cream tea, the kindness of strangers, waiting for trains that never come and treatment in a hospital. And at last he remembers some of things he once really cared about . . .

 

Peter Tremayne: The Council of the Cursed

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Peter Tremayne: The Council of the Cursed. 2008
Ljudbok (mp3 11 h)

A Sister Fidelma Mystery of Ancient Ireland (nr 19) .In AD 670 Fidelma is asked to act as an advisor to the Irish delegation to a church council hostile to the Celtic Church. In an abbey in Burgundy, Bishop Leodegar of Autun has assembled church leaders from all over Western Europe. One of the delegates is found murdered, the theft of a priceless reliquary box, the disappearance of women and children, and rumours of a slave trade make this one of the most sinister and deadly puzzles Fidelma and Brother Eadulf have ever faced.

 

Liane Moriarty: The Last Anniversary

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Liane Moriarty: The Last Anniversary. 2006
Storpocket (kirppis).

Sophie has unexpectedly inherited Connie’s house on Scribbly Gum Island — home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery. Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger, while dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it’s about time she started making her own decisions.

Cecilia Ahern: If you could see med now

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Cecilia Ahern: If you could see med now. 2005
Pocket (kirppis)

Elizabeth Egan’s life runs on order: Both her home and her emotions are arranged just so, with little room for spontaneity. It’s how she counteracts the chaos of her family—an alcoholic mother who left when she was young, an emotionally distant father, and a siste, lleaving her own six-year-old son, Luke, in Elizabeth’s care. Ivan, Luke’s mysterious new grown-up friend, enters the picture.With his penchant for adventure and colorful take on things large and small, Ivan opens Elizabeth’s eyes to a whole new way of living.

Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Fool

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Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Fool. 1957
Ljudbok (6 CD, Lovisa stadsbibba)

Set in the freezing, snowbound Winter of a small English village based on the Kent village of Birling, the plot concerns the annual performance in the courtyard of the local crumbling castle of an historic folkloric ritual. Marsh is clearly fascinated by the idea,  that ”The Dance of the Five Sons” during which the murder is committed) is a folkloric blueprint or ur-text for Shakespeare’s King Lear, a play Marsh greatly admired and herself directed in New Zealand in 1956. It’s a ”classic puzzle whodunit” form of which Ngaio Marsh was so outstanding.

 

Jessica Fellowes: The Mitford Trial

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Jessica Fellowes: The Mitford Trial. 2020
Inbunden (lånad från Lovisa stadsbibba)

Fjärde boken i serien, där jag läst Bright Young Dead. I den här är det systern Diana som är i centrum av Mitford-systrarna, medan bokens huvudrollsinnehavare nog är en annan – f.d. tjänsteflickan som är lite deckare.