WWW Wednesday: 5 February 2025

Published on by Margaret

WWW Wednesday is run by Taking on a World of Words.

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently I’m reading Only Murders in the Abbey by Beth Cowan-Erskine.

This is the second Loch Down Abbey Mystery, to be published on 13 February. Set in 1930’s Scotland the story revolves around Loch Down Abbey which has now been turned into a hotel. The Abbey is full of guests for a Highland Ball, including several uninvited members of the Inverkillen family, the Abbey’s former owners. Housekeeper Mrs MacBain thinks her biggest challenge will be finding suitable rooms for everyone and keeping the peace at cocktail hour. Until the morning after the ball, when one of the guests is discovered inside the Abbey’s library – as dead as a doornail.

The last book I read was The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

This is the first in a new series – an Ali Dawson Mystery to be published on 13 February. I loved it. It’s the first in a new series. It’s not like her other books, but it’s still a murder mystery. You do need to suspend your disbelief because she heads a cold case team who investigate crimes so old, they’re frozen – or so their inside joke goes. Most people don’t know that they travel back in time to complete their research.

I do hope there are more Ali Dawson books in the pipeline. The way this one ends it looks as though there will be at least one more.

What will I read next? I’m not sure. At the moment I think it won’t be crime fiction as I fancy a change.

So it might be Greek Lessons by Han Kang, the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, a new-to-me author. This is a new translation by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won, of the 2011 novel that explores how a teacher losing his sight and a pupil losing her voice form a poetic bond. It is a short book, of just 149 pages narrated by the two unnamed characters, one a woman grieving for her mother and her son, now in the custody of her ex-husband. She is also experiencing the loss of her ability to speak. The other is a man losing his connection to place and family, as well as the loss of his eyesight.  They meet when the woman attends his Ancient Greek lessons.

Or it could be something else.

16 thoughts on “WWW Wednesday: 5 February 2025”

  1. I’ve been wanting to read Only Murders…, Margaret. It really looks enjoyable. And I do love Elly Griffiths’ work; I’m surprised at how prolific she is, too! Whatever you choose to read next, I hope you enjoy it!

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    1. Elly Griffiths writes a number of series – not only the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, the Brighton Mysteries, the Harbinger Kaur series and now the Ali Dawson books but also the Girl Called Justice series of books for children set in the 1930s. Justice Jones is a 12 year old girl who goes to the Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk.

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  3. Margaret, I’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed Frozen People. I think I mentioned here before that I’m very much looking forward to trying it. Won’t be out here until the summer. Enjoy your next book!!

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  4. I’m looking forward to the Elly Griffiths. Not sure how I’ll get on with the time travelling aspect, but she usually manages to win me over whatever she does, and the fact that you enjoyed it encourages me!

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  7. It looks like the Loch Down Abbey series hasn’t made it to the US, which is a pity.

    I am looking forward to The Frozen People, however!

    Constance

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    1. Good news Staircase Wit – Beth Cowan-Erskine’s first book is available from amazon.com and her second book will be published in the US on February 13.

      I do hope you’ll enjoy The Frozen People.

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