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Death On The Nile

★★★★★
Murder follows Poirot on vacation, as a wealthy young woman is shot dead on his boat while on a cruise down the river Nile

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Moonwalking with Einstein

★★★★★
An excellent chronicle of the author's journey to becoming a memory champion

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Best SF Six

★★★★★
A collection of Sci-fi short stories from the golden age.

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The Last Devil to Die

★★★★★
A friend of Elizabeth’s husband, Stephen, has been killed, and a package he was protecting is now missing

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My Man Jeeves

★★★★★
A collection of short stories which include among the first appearances Bertie Wooster and his superlative valet Jeeves

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

★★★★★
The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance

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Fooled by Randomness

★★★☆☆
A treatise on the role of randomness in all ventures, and how everyone often models all behaviour on repeating that one random outcome

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City of Bones

★☆☆☆☆
A young girl accidentally steps into a world of magic and discovers a lot about herself and her family

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The Alchemist

★☆☆☆☆
A young shepherd follows his dreams, quite literally, and learns alchemy along the way.

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Flood of Fire

★★★★★
The conclusion of the magnificent Ibis trilogy, and another foray into the language and history of the British Raj

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The Black Echo

★★★★☆
LA detective and Vietnam vet Harry Bosch is called in to examine a body found in a drainage tunnel, but the case hits closer to home when he recognises the body as an old comrade

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Behind Her Eyes

★★★★★
A doctor's secretary is having an affair with the doctor, while being a close confidant of his wife.

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