Tag: Books
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The Gay Book Club loved the Milverton Mysteries
We loved the Milverton Mysteries! It made us want to book a ticket to New Zealand! The Gay Book Club (Website, Instagram) The trouble with living on the opposite side of the world is that, well, we’re on the opposite side of the world. The flight is often quite lengthy and usually involves more than…
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Murder on Milverton Square: “This book hits all the right notes” –CozyMystery.com
A great start to a cozy mystery series. Set in a quaint small town in New Zealand, this book hits all the right notes… everything you’d expect in a cozy […] Definitely put this on your TBR list, or better, read it now. Marian, CozyMystery.com Investigate the first Milverton Mystery
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Tomorrow is Bookshop Day
Bookshops across Aotearoa New Zealand will be doing all sorts of fun stuff: spot prizes, lucky dips, author events, read-a-thons, mini Penguin figurines, silent reading raves, biscuits, bookshop crawls, window displays, kids’ activities, and who knows what else. Some of my favourite bookshops are getting involved: I’m sure there are many more bookshops getting involved…
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A selection of spooky reads for Halloween
We have mystery and romance and fantasy. We have YA and adult. We have classics and new releases. We have cosy and spicy. We have trad and indie published. We have books I’ve enjoyed and those recommended to me (but which are still on my TBR!). And we have characters from every stripe of the…
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Killer on the Kelvin Explorer in stock at Bruce McKenzie Booksellers
A big box of paperback books recently arrived on my doorstep! I have now dropped off a bunch of copies of the latest Milverton Mystery, Killer on the Kelvin Explorer, to my local independent bookshop, Bruce McKenzie Booksellers, in Palmerston North. Check them out in store or online! Here I am accidentally colour-coordinating for the…
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Where’s Wally? Milverton Edition
I didn’t know what else to do with all these pictures on my camera roll from a recent trip to Auckland, so I decided to hide a few Milvertonians around the city. Can you spot them? The Milverton Mysteries
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The Censored Mysteries
What’s a mystery author to do when the algorithms don’t like certain words in the titles of your books? You get creative! I’ve censored the titles for each of the Milverton Mysteries: Murder on Milverton Square Poison at Penshaw Hall Death in Douglas Glade Fright on Stage Right Killer on the Kelvin Explorer
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A full-day scenic railway journey in New Zealand (real vs fictional)
I traded in the fictional Kelvin Explorer for the very real Northern Explorer yesterday. The full-day scenic railway journey runs much of the length of New Zealand’s North Island “from rolling farmland and volcanic landscapes to dramatic river gorges and rugged coastlines.” Also: engineering marvels like the Makohine Viaduct and the Raurimu Spiral. A very…
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Paul Austin Ardoin recommends Killer on the Kelvin Explorer
Paul Austin Ardoin (author of the Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Woodhead & Becker Mysteries) was an early reader of Killer on the Kelvin Explorer. He had some lovely things to say about the latest Milverton Mystery and even recommended it to the readers of his email newsletter. Check it out below (and be sure…