6/30/2023 0 Comments Death Sets Sail by Robin Stevens“I just have so many memories as a kid, reading series and just not knowing what’s going to happen next and being so immersed in those books. But I’m keeping completely secret, because I want them to go in and start reading it when it comes out and just not know what’s going to happen next to really be taken for a ride by the book,” Stevens explained. “Lots of fans are emailing me, traumatised and desperate to know what happens. And three days into the cruise, their leader is found dead in her cabin - having been stabbed during the night.Īs they investigate their most difficult case yet, it becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that the victim’s daughter is being framed - but there’s danger all around, and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive. I have memories of being on a Nile cruise as a teenager, and came up with the bones of Death Sets Sail.”ĭeath Sets Sail sees Daisy and Hazel in Egypt, taking a cruise along the Nile - and hoping to see some ancient temples, or maybe a mummy or two?Īlso on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen, who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. “I went to Egypt with my family when I was 17, so only a couple years older than Daisy and Hazel are in this book.
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My first encounter with Mitford the biographer was her last book: Frederick the Great. She threw herself into researching Louis XV’s famous mistress and the result is something between the froth of a novel and the impartiality of a biography. With seven novels already behind her, Mitford had a fine reputation but, intoxicated and in love with her new home in Paris, she was eager to write about something other than the romantic trials of the English. In 1954, Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford was released to indulgent – and no doubt frustrating for the author – praise from the critics. Once you’ve proven yourself as a novelist, what do you do next? Do you turn out novel after novel, perhaps improving, or perhaps churning out forgettable fodder? Or do you try something entirely different, striking out into the unknown and – to your readers – the unexpected? I know which sounds like more fun to me. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books and other documents. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. You can read this before Chasing Lincoln’s Killer PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.īased on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN’S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Chasing Lincoln’s Killer written by James L. Brief Summary of Book: Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. |