Hey, c'mon! You just trashed my favorite "sleuth!"
I've read 'em all and can hardly wait for the next! And if you think Molly Murphy is light, just try Rhys Bowen's "Royal Pain," etc. series featuring the 37th in line to the English throne--in the 1930s. They make the Molly Murphy stories seem positively Bergmanesque!
Here in this vale of tears. I like, from time to time, to turn to something lighter where you KNOW everything will turn out just "peachy-keen" in the end. Maybe it reflects the fact that I first learned to love reading by devouring comic books.
And, seeing the others on your "don't read" list I think now that I better check out M.C. Beaton and Ngaio Marsh as well. If I want something dark and heavy and thought-provoking I can always reread Hardy, Eliot, Woolfe or Brookner -- or go back to something profound like Elegance of the Hedgehog (also among those you have trashed).
We've been agreeing on too much--so about time we could argue a little!
I'll have to gather my thoughts for arguing. And I'll have to go back and see what I said about Elegance of the Hedgehog. Did I really trash it?
And I can hardly wait for your reactions to Beaton and Marsh.
I didn't know you were a closet "cozy" fan. Never had a hint.
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I didn't trash The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
In fact I thought it was a good book that wasn't to my tastes.
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