
Hello! I am Lizzie, and my main joy in life is reading books and thinking about books! I have so many thoughts about each book I read so wanted a place to record these thoughts, and a place where others who are reading the same book as me can share their thoughts about it too. I’ve tried to write my (often lengthy!) reviews of books so it feels like I am chatting with you as we read the book together, comparing thoughts at the end of a chapter and ideas of where the plot and characters may end up, wondering why the author has written a character or scene in a particular way and what they may be subtly trying to tell us about that character or scene. So enjoy reading along with me, and please get in touch, I’d love to be able to discover more about a favourite book from your thoughts on it.

This is another book from the wonderful British Library Crime Classics series, which is a series I adore, partly because I can never resist building up a collection and to own all the books in this series is just soooo tempting (!), partly because I love Golden Age murder mysteries and this is what this series mainly publishes, but a huge part is that I very much admire their aim of republishing books which have long been out of print and bringing them to the public’s attention. This book sounds very intriguing from the blurb on the back, as Laura Dousland is on trial accused of murdering her elderly husband, and the poison is believed to have been administered in…yes, a bottle/flask of red wine chianti! Grab your copy and let’s read it together! Read the full review