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PennyK

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11. Anthony Horowitz is great

Sun Apr 12, 2020, 02:20 PM

Apr 2020

I wish he would stick to mysteries, because he has so much fun bending the genre.
I just got Company of Liars by Karen Maitland, a mystery retelling of a Canterbury Tales-type group of people, staying together to wait out the Plague.
Also discovered Georgette Heyer, who apparently "invented' the historical fiction genre, but also wrote some very amusing (and Christie-ish) murder mysteries back in the '30s.

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