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Bookish: MEMORIES & MYSTERIES (#9) -

# NPR's Crime in the City series this time features Eastport, Maine, and the writing of Sarah Graves. NPR has expanded its Books section. There are many articles to browse there now.

This seems to have been the weekend for Memoirs . . .

# Life in a Nottinghamshire manor house.
..... Thrumpton Hall by Miranda Seymour;
..... Rave Review by Martin Rubin at the LAT.

# A German family in London exile
during WWII, and their relations with
their Jewish maid during and after the war.
..... Journey to Nowhere by Eva Figes;
..... Reviewed by Anne Karpf.

# From the British Publishing Industry comes:
..... Grub Street Irregular by Jeremy Lewis;
..... Reviewed by Philip French.

# A Cornish childhood between the wars:
..... The Great Western Beach by Emma Smith;
..... Reviewed by Lynne Truss.

# Way With Words 2008 Literary Festival.

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# From the fictional annals of the Peculiar Crimes Unit series, several women have been killed in crowded pubs. The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler reviewed by Susanna Yager. And she also reviews A Death in Tuscany by Michele Giuttari.

# Marcel Berlins reviews the new Laura Lippman, the latest Robert Crais, and much more about Michele Guitarri: a real cop in real life and the head of a "Flying Squad," now moonlighting as a Mystery writer.

# Jake Kerridge reviews some Crime Detection fiction which have been translated into English, including: Havana Gold by Leonardo Padura tr by Peter Bush and The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel tr by Anthea Bell.

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