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Book Review: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

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Book Cover with Angel Wings.

Janice Hallett is back with another epistolary mystery. Told through a series of transcribed conversations, WhatsApp messages, and torn-out pages from diaries - we the reader have to piece together the facts and crack the case! Much like her previous novels - The Appeal and The Twyford Code - you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief a fair bit. Do people really talk like that when they…

Book Review: The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

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Book cover featuring a drawing of a fish.

About ⅔rds of the way through reading Janice Hallett's debut novel, The Appeal, I purchased her next book - The Twyford Code. The schtick is similar to the first. We, the reader, are taken through an epistolary series of audio files - voice notes from a recently released convict. There's intrigue, murder, regret, and redemption. The story isn't as tangled as The Twyford Code - here's it is one m…

Book Review: The Appeal - Janice Hallett

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Book cover featuring a woodcut of a village.

I was 25% of the way through reading this when I purchased the sequel. It is an utterly compelling murder mystery - not least because the death doesn't occur until well after the halfway point. Who dies? Why? Who did it? Why?! With every paragraph I felt myself trying to decipher the characters' motives. A murder mystery set in an amateur dramatics society is a bit Simon Brett but this has much …