Somewhere Out There: Indie Authors In Support of Immigrant Families: A Charity Anthology
Blaire Edens, Erin Hayes , Margo Bond Collins, Victoria Pinder, Deb Christie, Skye Malone, Krystal Runkis and Victor Marrone
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Sometimes an anthology is more than a collection of great stories. This anthology is about...
Daughters of the Lake
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The ghosts of the past come calling in a spellbinding heart-stopper from the “Queen of the...
The Adventure Pals
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The Adventure Pals is a quirky game about friendship involving a small boy and the crazy...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
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If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean...
The Woman on the Orient Express
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Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in...
The Brief (Charles Holborne #1)
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The legal thriller series you need to read! Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Robert Bailey, Michael...
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Sixteen Horses
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Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers...
Literary Fiction Trigger Warning: Animal Cruelty and Dismemberment
Alien Domicile (2017)
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After decades of conspiracy theories and shrouding secrecy, the CIA finally acknowledged the...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Murder on the Orient Express (2017) in Movies
Apr 21, 2022
I also watched this after recently watching the semi-sequel 'Death in the Nile' on Disney+, thinking then that - as that was a sequel of sorts - I might as well go back and watch the original.
The problem, of course, as with all murder mysteries is that once they are solved (in either print or on screen), then they lose nearly all sense of drama or suspense. That, I think, is a fault of the genre as a whole and is perhaps the reason why it is generally not my favourite type of story: I prefer works that you can rewatch or re-read and discover something new each time through.
Anyway, the fact that I already knew the ending might have spoiled my enjoyment of this movie, even if I'm aware it takes liberties with the source material. Not obvious liberties, though! (Or, at least I didn't think they were).
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2346 KP) rated Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way in Books
Jul 15, 2024
The ten stories in this book are fairly short, which makes them easy to breeze through. I still find I rarely solve the case before Encyclopedia does, but that’s okay. I have fun with them. There isn’t time for much in the way of twists here, and the characters are fairly thin. I don’t think kids will mind either one. What they might find off putting is the dated elements of the books. Like, what’s an encyclopedia? Still, if they are willing to pick it up, they’ll find these stories fun.