Authors R-Z

All the books featured so far, in alphabetical order by author, R- Z
see also  A-D , E-K , L-Q







Raban, Jonathan Waxwings

Rachman, Tom The Imperfectionists

Rachman, Tom The Rise and Fall of Great Powers


Rader-Day, Lori  The Black Hour

Rader-Day, Lori Little Pretty Things
Radford, E & MA  Who Killed Dick Whittington?

Rakoff, Joanna My Salinger Year   My Salinger Year 2


Randall, Bob The Fan

Ransome, Arthur Swallows and Amazons


Ransome, Arthur Winter Holiday

Ransome, Arthur  Pigeon Post

Raphael, Frederic The Glittering Prizes
Raverat, Gwen Period Piece

Rayne, Sarah Death Notes

Rayne, Sarah Song of the Damned

Guestblog by Sarah Rayne on  Clemence Dane's   Broome Stages

Read, Miss Village School

Read, Miss Village School

Read, Miss Village Diary

Read, Miss Storm in the Village Storm in the Village 2


Read, Miss No Holly for Miss Quinn

Reid, Taylor Jenkins Daisy Jones & The Six

Renault, Mary  The Persian Boy The Persian Boy 2


Rendell, Ruth  A New Lease of Death


Rendell, Ruth A Judgement in Stone


Revell, Louisa  A Silver Spade

Revell, Louisa See Rome And Die

Rhys, Rachel Fatal Inheritance

Ribchester, Lucy The Hourglass Factory The Hourglass Factory 2


Rice-Davies, Mandy  Mandy

Richardson, MK  Tommasini

Richardson, Samuel Pamela Pamela 2 Pamela 3

Rickman, Alan  Madly, Deeply: Diaries



Rice, Eva The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

Rinehart, Mary Roberts  The Case of Jennie Brice


Roberts, Katherine  I Am The Great Horse

Robertson, Michael The Baker Street Letters
Robinson, Marilynne Housekeeping

Robinson, Peter Before the Poison
Robinson, Robert  Landscape with Dead Dons

Rogan, Charlotte  Lifeboat
Rogers, Byron The Last Englishman

Rogers, Joel Townley  The Red Right Hand


Rogers, Mark Koreatown Blues


Roth, Holly  Shadow of a Lady

Roth, Holly  The Crimson in the Purple

Rothschild, Hannah  The Improbability of Love

Rowling, JK The Casual Vacancy   The Casual Vacancy 2
(see also Robert Galbraith)
 Rowling,JK / Galbraith, Robert The Ink Black Heart

Runcie, James Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

Runyon, Damon A Very Honourable Guy

Russell, Michael City of Shadows

Russell, Norman The Advocate's Wife

Rutland, Harriet Knock, Murderer, Knock!

Ryan, WC A House of Ghosts


Saunders, George Fox 8

Saunders, Kate The Secrets of Wishtide

Sayers, Dorothy L Have his carcase Have His Carcase 2 Have His Carcase 3

Sayers, Dorothy L Busman’sHoneymoon

Sayers, Dorothy L Gaudy Night   Gaudy Night 2   Gaudy Night 3

Sayers, Dorothy L Clouds of Witness Clouds of Witness 2

Sayers, Dorothy L  The Nine Tailors 
The Nine Tailors 2

Sayers, Dorothy L Murder Must AdvertiseMurder Must Advertise 2, Murder Must Advertise  3 + drug distribution plotlines

Sayers, Dorothy L  Whose Body?  (TNC Week 1)

Sayers, Dorothy L Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (TNC Week 1) 


Sayers, Dorothy L Unnatural Death (TNC Week 1) 

Sayers, Dorothy L The Harriet Vane Books (TNC 2) and see also entry on Harriet D Vane

Sayers, Dorothy L The Wimsey Books Exam Paper - TNC 3

Sayers, Dorothy L  Overview TNC 4

Sayers, Dorothy L  Strong Poison

Sayers, Dorothy L  The Necklace of Pearls (Hangman's Holiday) 

**(see also Jill Paton Walsh below)**

Sayers, Dorothy L  The Man Born to be King

Scarlett, Susan - see Noel Streatfeild below Babbacombe's Babbacombe's 2

          Clothes Pegs 

Peter and Paul

Schirach, Ferdinand von The Collini Case


Schlitz, Laura Amy Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village



Schultz, Emily The Blondes

Schwarz, Christina All is Vanity



Scott, Justin  Hardscape

Scott, Justin StoneDust

Seaman, Barbara  Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann

Sebald, WG Rings of Saturn

Searle, Nicholas The Good Liar

Sellars, Eleanore Kelly Murder a la Mode

Seltzer, Charles Alden Square Deal Sanderson  


Sendak, Maurice The Sign on Rosie’s Door

Seton, Anya Katherine Katherine 2


Severgnini, Beppe Ciao, America!


Shaber, Sarah R  Simon Said

Shakespeare, William   Hamlet + Theories on Hamlet

Shakespeare, William Sonnet Sunday at the Globe

Shames, Terry   A Killing at Cotton Hill

Shames, Terry Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek

Shames, Terry The Last Death of Jack Harbin

Shane, Susannah Lady in Lilac Lady in Lilac 2
Sharp, Margery The Eye of Love   The Eye of Love 2  

Sharp, Margery  The Nutmeg Tree    The Nutmeg Tree 2   The Nutmeg Tree 3

Sharp, Margery  Something Light   Something Light 2            
Sharp, Margery Lise Lillywhite

Sharp, Margery Girl in the Leopardskin Pants/ Lost Chapel Picnic


Sharp, Margery  The Foolish Gentlewoman
Sharp, Margery The Stone of Chastity


Shaw, George Bernard Major Barbara

Shaw-Stewart, Patrick  I Saw a Man This Morning (poem), Armistice Day


Sheldon, Edward Romance


Shepherd, Eric Murder in a Nunnery


Shepherd, Lynn  Tom-All-Alone's

Shepherd, Lynn A Treacherous Likeness

Sheridan, Sara Brighton Belle


Sherriff, RC The Fortnight in September

Sherwood, John The Half Hunter

Sherwood, John A Shot in the Arm/Death at the BBC

Shteyngart, Gary Lake Success

Simenon, Georges Madame Maigret's Friend

Simpson, Helen & Dane, Clemence Enter Sir John

Simpson, Helen Four Bare Legs in a Bed

Simsion, Graeme    The Rosie Project


Simsion, Graeme  The Rosie Effect


Simsion, Graeme The Best of Adam Sharp

Simsion, Graeme & Anne Buist Two Steps Forward

Simsion, Graeme The Rosie Result

Sinclair, May  The Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Sittenfeld, Curtis American Wife


Sittenfeld, Curtis Eligible

Sklepowich, Edward       Death in a Serene City

Sklepowich, Edward Farewell to the Flesh


Slesar, Henry Enter Murderers


Smart, Elizabeth By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept


Smiley, Jane Some Luck  Some Luck 2


Smiley, Jane Ten Days in the Hills, Ten Days in the Hills 2



Smith, Derek Whistle Up the Devil

        ***see also this post: 'Books like 'I Capture the Castle'

*** see also works by James Mortmain 
                             
Smith, Dodie  The Town in Bloom   The Town in Bloom 2 The Town in Bloom 3


Smith, Dodie  It Ends With Revelations


Smith, Dodie The New Moon with the Old

Smith, Dodie  A Tale of Two Families

Smith, Dominic The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

Smith, Emma  Maiden's Trip

Smith, Joan A Masculine Ending

Smith, Joan Don't Leave Me This Way

Smith, Mark Death of the Detective

Smith, Sally Bedell Grace and Power: The Kennedy White House

Smith, Stevie  The Holiday

Smith, Tom Rob  The Farm

Smith, Zadie   NW   NW 2


Smith, Zadie Swing Time

Spark, Muriel   A Far Cry from Kensington

Spark, Muriel The Girls of Slender Means

Spark, Muriel The Public Image

Spark, Muriel  Symposium

Spark, Muriel Aiding and Abetting

Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Spark, Muriel The Driver's Seat


Sprigg, Christopher St John Death of an Airman + post on plotlines

Spyri, Johanna Heidi

Stace, Wesley Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Stafford, Ann and Oliver, Jane   Business as Usual


St Aubyn, Edward Some Hope

St John, Madeleine Women in Black [aka Ladies in Black] Women in Black 2  Women in Black 3

Steiner, Susie  Persons Unknown
Steiner, Susie Remain Silent
Stern, GB    Ten Days of Christmas

Stevens, Robin Murder Most Unladylike

Stevenson, DE Miss Buncle's Book 
Stevenson, DE Charlotte Fairlie

Stevenson Robert Louis Kidnapped
Stewart, J.I.M.  The Last Tresilians The Last Tresilians 2

Stewart, Mary  The Crystal Cave

Stewart, Mary  Wildfire at Midnight


Stewart, Mary Airs Above the Ground

Stewart, Mary The Ivy Tree + impersonation post  + Fair Flower of Northumberland - traditional ballad 

Noah Stewart, an obituary

Stibbe, Nina Man at the Helm 

Stibbe, Nina Paradise Lodge

Stibbe, Nina An Almost Perfect Christmas

Stibbe, Nina Reasons to be Cheerful Reasons to be Cheerful 2

**(see also Lane, Carla  TV Writer and Landlady)**

Stockett, Kathryn The Help

Stoker, Bram Dracula


Stone, BC  Murder at the Belmar


Stout, Rex Christmas Party (TNC Week 1) 

Stout, Rex  More Deaths Than One (TNC Week 2)

Stout, Rex The Second Confession (TNC Week 3)

Stout, Rex The Doorbell Rang (TNC Week 3)

Stout, Rex Hand in Glove (TNC Week 4) 

Stout, Rex Red Threads (TNC Week4) Red Threads 2

Stout, Rex Fer de Lance 

Stout, Rex Easter Parade


Stout, Rex The 4th July Picnic


Stout, Rex  Invitation to Murder


Stout, Rex Champagne For One


Strachey, Lytton  Elizabeth & Essex  Elizabeth & Essex 2

Stratmann, Linda The Poisonous Seed

Stratmann, Linda The Daughters of Gentlemen


Streatfeild, Noel Theatre Shoes

Streatfeild, Noel The Painted Garden



Streatfeild, Noel The Fearless Treasure


Streatfeild, Noel Wintle's Wonders (Dancing Shoes)   Wintle's


Streatfeild, Noel Apple Bough



Streatfeild,  Noel  Murder While You Work


Streatfeild, Noel Aunt Clara   Aunt Clara 2 Aunt Clara

 3

Streatfeild, Noel It Pays to be Good


Streatfeild Noel, writing as Susan Scarlett: Babbacombe's  Babbacombe's 2

            Clothes Pegs 

Peter and Paul



Stuart, Aimee and Philip   Nine Till Six (play)  Nine Till Six 2

Sullivan, Courtney Maine


Sweet, Matthew West End Front


Symons, Julian The Belting Inheritance


Syson, Lydia Burning Summer

Szerb, Antal Journey by Moonlight
Tabucchi, Antonio Pereira Maintains
Talbot, Fleur Warrender Chase
        ** but note the date & see also  Muriel Spark’s Loitering with Intent  ***

Talbot, Hake Rim of the Pit


Tan, Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists


Tartt, Donna The Goldfinch The Goldfinch 2

Taylor, DJ The Windsor Faction


Taylor, Elizabeth  A Game of Hide and Seek A Game of Hide and Seek 2

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood The Cape Cod Mystery 
reposted for TNC Week 1


Taylor, Phoebe Atwood File for Record TNC Week 2
(aka Alice Tilton)

Temple, Shirley    Child Star  (as Shirley Temple Black)

Tennyson, Alfred Lord  Ulysses (poem)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord Ring Out Wild Bells (poem)

Tey, Josephine The Singing Sands  The Singing Sands 2

Tey, Josephine The Daughter of Time  The Daughter of Time 2 


Tey, Josephine Brat Farrar  Brat Farrar 2 + impersonation post


Tey, Josephine A Shilling for Candles

Thackeray, William Makepeace Vanity Fair  Modern day Vanity Fair & Becky Sharp
                                 
Thirkell, Angela High Rising  High Rising 2 High Rising 3


Thirkell, Angela Northbridge Rectory Northbridge Rectory 2
Northbridge Rectory 3

Thirkell, Angela The Brandons, The Brandons 2The Brandons 3



Thirkell, Angela  Peace Breaks Out


Thirkell, Angela  Pomfret Towers


Thirkell, Angela Summer Days

Thirkell, Angela Cheerfulness Breaks In Cheerfulness Breaks In 2


Thirkell, Angela Jutland Cottage

Thirkell, Angela August Folly


Thomas, Dylan   Under Milk Wood  Under Milk Wood 2 Under Milk Wood 3

Thomas, Edward   Adlestrop (poem)

Thomas, RS Christmas (poem) 

--see also Rogers, Byron The Man Who Went into the West

Thompson, Jim Ironside

Thompson, Laura  - biographies of Agatha Christie, Lord Lucan and Nancy Mitford mentioned on blog

Thompson, Laura Take Six Girls: The Mitford Sisters

Thomson, David Have you seen....?

Thomson, Lesley  The Detective's Daughter


Thorndike, Russell The Slype  The Slype 2

Thorne, Guy  When it Was Dark When it Was Dark 2  When it Was Dark 3

Thynne, Jane The Weighing of the Heart


Thynne, Molly The Crime at the Noah's Ark

Tilton, Alice - see Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Toibin, Colm  Brooklyn Brooklyn 2


Toibin, Colm House of Names

Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina    Anna Karenina 2


Tommasini, Mother & Richardson, MK  Tommasini

Towles, Amor Rules of Civility


Townsend, Sue Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years


Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole


Trease, Geoffrey  Under Black Banner


Trease, Geoffrey The Gates of Bannerdale

Trease, Geoffrey The Black Banner Players
Trefusis, Violet  Echo

Trefusis, Violet Hunt the Slipper

Trefusis,Violet Letters to Vita Sackville-West Letters to Vita  2     Letters to Vita 3


Tripp, Grady Wonder Boys

**** but note date, and see also Michael Chabon****


Tulloch, Lee Fabulous Nobodies 
Twiggy - see Twiggy Lawson

Tyler, Anne Digging to America

Tyler, Anne A Spool of Blue Thread


Tyler, LC  The Herring Seller's Apprentice
Tyler, LC The Plague Road

Ulitskaya, Ludmila The Funeral Party


Underdown, Beth  The Witchfinder's Sister

Vipont, Elfrida    Lark in the Morn Lark in the Morn 2


Vittachi, Nury  Mr Wong Goes West


Vonnegut, Kurt  Dead Eye Dick

Vonnegut, Kurt    2 B R 0 2 B


Wade, Henry The Hanging Captain

Wallis, Ruth Sawtell Too Many Bones


Ward, Amanda Eyre How to be Lost

Waldman, Ayelet Daughter's Keeper


Waldman, Ayelet  Death Gets a Time-Out


Waldman, Ayelet  Love and Treasure


Wallace, Irving  The Second Lady

Walsh, Jill Paton The Late Scholar
**(about Lord Peter Wimsey - see also Dorothy L Sayers above)**

Walsh, Jill Paton  Fireweed


Walters, Jess  Beautiful Ruins

Walters, Minette  The Last Hours

Walton, Jo Farthing

Walton, Jo  Ha'Penny and Half a Crown

Walton, Samantha Guilty but Insane


Ward, Sarah In Bitter Chill In Bitter Chill 2


Ward, Sarah A Deadly Thaw

Ward, Sarah The Shrouded Path
Ward, Sarah - Rhiannon Ward  The Quickening
Ward, Sarah The Birthday Girl
Ward, Sarah The Sixth Lie
Ware, Guy The Fat of Fed Beasts


Warner, Sylvia Townsend  Lolly Willowes  Lolly Willowes 2

Warner, Sylvia Townsend  Some Effects of a Hat (s/story)
Warner, Sylvia Townsend A Saint (Unknown) with Two Donors  (s/story)

Warriner, Thurman   The Doors of Sleep  The Doors of Sleep 2

Warriner, Thurman Death's Dateless Night

Waters, Sarah The Night Watch The Night Watch 2


Watts-Dunton, Theodore Aylwin  Aylwin 2


Waugh, Evelyn The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Waugh, Evelyn Helena  Helena 2

Waugh, Evelyn A Handful of Dust  A Handful of Dust 2
 A Handful of Dust 3


Waugh, Evelyn  Vile Bodies

Webb, Joyce Bevins   The Clue in the Castle

Wein, Elizabeth  Code Name Verity


Wells, Anna Mary A Talent for Murder


Wells, Dee Jane


Wells, Carolyn The Vanishing of Betty Varian

Wells, Helen  Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse

Wentworth, Patricia  Entry on Miss Silver vs Miss Marple


Wentworth, Patricia  Poison in the Pen


Wentworth, Patricia  Through the Wall

Wentworth, Patricia  Spotlight


Wentworth, Patricia  The Silent Pool


Wentworth, Patricia  The Clock Strikes Twelve

Wentworth, Patricia  Miss Silver Intervenes


Wentworth, Patricia  The Benevent Treasure


Wentworth, Patricia  Grey Mask

Wentworth, Patricia The Brading Collection The Brading Collection 2


Wentworth, Patricia  Anna Where Are You? 

Wentworth, Patricia  Mr Zero

Wentworth, Patricia The Chinese Shawl

Wentworth, Patricia Pilgrim's Rest


Wentworth, Patrica  The Case is Closed

Wentworth, Patricia  The Dower House Mystery

Wentworth, Patricia The Ivory Dagger

Wentworth, Patricia Miss Silver Comes to Stay

Wentworth, Patricia Ladies' Bane

Wentworth, Patricia Latter End

Wentworth, Patricia The Case of William Smith

Wentworth, Patricia The Traveller Returns

Wentworth, Patricia The Catherine Wheel

Wentworth, Patricia The Listening Eye

Wentworth, Patricia  Out of the Past

Wentworth, Patricia Lonesome Road

Wentworth, Patricia  Danger Point

Wentworth, Patricia The Key

Wentworth, Patricia Eternity Ring

Wentworth, Patricia The Watersplash

Wentworth, Patricia The Gazebo

Westlake, Donald E  Brothers Keepers Brothers Keepers


Westmacott, Mary   Absent in the Spring


Westmacott, Mary Giant’s Bread
   ****see also Agatha Christie***

Wharton, Edith Touchstone
Wheatley, Dennis The Golden Spaniard

White, Constance B The Ballet School Mystery

White, EB    Charlotte’s Web

White, Ethel Lina  Fear Stalks the Village

White, Ethel Lina Wax

White, Ethel Lina The Lady Vanishes  aka The Wheel Spins

White, Ethel Lina Step in the Dark

White, Ethel Lina  Spiral Staircase (Some May Watch)

White, Ethel Lina She Faded Into Air


White, Ethel Lina While She Sleeps


White, Ethel Lina The Third Eye

White, Ethel Lina The First Time He Died

White, TH Darkness Comes to Pemberley


Whitlock, Pamela & Hull, Katharine   Crowns Crowns 2

Widen, Gregory Blood Makes Noise

Willder, Louise Blurb Your Enthusiasm

Willcox, Collin & Pronzini, Bill   Two Spot

Williams, Ben Ames  Leave Her to Heaven

Williams, Gordon  From Scenes Like These
Williams, John Stoner Stoner 2
Williams, Kit Masquerade

Williams, Valentine Masks off at Midnight


Willis, Connie To Say Nothing of the Dog
Wilson, Andrew A Talent for Murder

Wilson, Angus   Such Darling Dodos


Wilson, Elizabeth She Died Young

Wilson, Jacqueline Four Children and It

Wilson, Jacqueline  Katy

Wilson, Julie Seen Reading

Windsor, Duke of A King's Story    A King's Story 2   A King's Story 3


Winemaker, Susan Concertina

Winter, Trish & Keegan-Phipps, Simon  Performing Englishness

Wister, Owen The Lady Baltimore
Witting, Clifford  Measure for Murder
Wodehouse PG A Pelican at Blandings

Wolfe, Susan Escape Velocity

Woolf, Virginia Orlando

Woolf, Virginia  The Years

Woolf, Virginia  To the Lighthouse, To the Lighthouse 2

Woolf, Virginia  Between the Acts

Worsley-Gough, Barbara Alibi Innings
Worsley-Gough, Barbara Lantern Hill

Young, EH  The Misses Mallett

Yu Hua Cries in the Drizzle

Zaremba, Eve   Work for a Million


Zhu Xiao-Mei  The Secret Piano

Ziskin, James W Styx and Stone


Zola, Emile Au Bonheur Des Dames/The Ladies' Paradise

Zweig, Stefan   The Post Office Girl (repeated here)

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