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Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of the Richard Jury mysteries and other novels. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more information visit her website at http://www.marthagrimes.com.
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The Blue Last
The City, London's famous square mile, is home to merchant bankers and brokers and maintains its own police force. Chief Inspector Michael Haggerty asks his old friend Richard Jury to do him a favor: prove that the granddaughter of the brewing magnate Oliver Tynedale is an impostor and that the real granddaughter was killed, along with her mother, in the London blitz when a bomb hit a pub called the Blue Last.
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Martha Grimes' Summer Reading List
In Siberia
by Colin Thubron
Who could resist a place that bears a marker saying "Asia" on one side and "Europe" on the other? It's rather like the directional signal saying "New York" on one arrow and "The Rest of the World" on the other. Thurbon is as good as they come in travel-writing, better than Paul Theroux and not nearly so self-satisfied.
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
For the umpteenth time, I can still remember where I was when I read this book back in the sixties when it first came out. I love stories in which the protagonist hasn't got a CLUE as to what sort of person he is or why he does what he does. (The best example of this is probably The Turn of the Screw.)
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
If you want to know what this is all about, the best thing to do is to attend the "Summarize Proust" contest, sponsored by Monty Python, held annually in Poole.
Lucky You
by Carl Hiaasen
Hiaasen is surely the funniest mystery writer around and his humber is never forced. South Florida, however, always is.
A Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
His other book, An Instance of the Fingerpost, is the best historical mystery I've ever come across. It's much better than The Name of the Rose.
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