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Daryl Sng
@darylsng.com

Finished reading today: Lucy Foley’s Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel: The New Miss Marple Mystery, and S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed. Two very different books about murder, but both very enjoyable

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Daryl Sng
@darylsng.com

The Foley picks up Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories, but it’s clearly a Lucy Foley book, particularly in telling the story from multiple first person perspectives. That said, it’s also a whodunit that plays fair by Golden Age standards, and Miss Marple does piece it all together and do a reveal

Daryl Sng
@darylsng.com

Meanwhile All the Sinners Bleed is about gruesome crimes in the fictional Charon County in rural SE Virginia. It starts with what seems to be a school shooting and then only goes on to be more graphic from there. The book is also about how the legacy of slavery continues to linger on in the South