Madeleine

Good Times - Chic

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Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer

Not much more to say, there's a website called Fantastic Fiction where you can look up all of an author's books. But the book I have is called Escape to Darling Cove, with the same cover as "Hidden Depths", all 4 mini novels have now been put together in the one book.

They've all been published in one book now, I think the first cover in your post, and the title, is the one they've used, I have it myself and also saw it in my local Sainsbury's.

Nothing says cosy like a dog (or OK cat for some) curled up fast asleep.

I like the sound of the Wilkie Collins story.

Diamonds are Forever - Shirley Bassey

that's one of my favourite books in the series, I found Stranger from the Sea highly disappointing (all that stuff about steam, zzzzz) and was worried the series had lost it's way a bit, but this one got it right back to how it was before "Stranger".

Don't it make my brown eyes blue - Crystal Gayle

Adorable!

The man with the child in his eyes -Kate Bush

Speak like a Child - Style Council

This was one of my favourites in the series, partly because a lot of it is set in and around the area I used to work in, so I could imagine the settings very well.

A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone - this is the first in the series about the Skelf family, who run an undertaker business in Edinburgh, coupled with acting as private investigators. The book starts with the sudden death of Jim, the patriarch, and is subsequent unorthodox ie illegal cremation in the back garden! Rather too much detail here, but afterwards the women in his life - his widow Dorothy, their daughter Jenny and her daughter Hannah - try to pick up the pieces of their lives and carry on both businesses without him. But when Dorothy starts to go through his papers, she finds payments of several hundred pounds being made every month, for several years, to an unknown woman. Meanwhile Jenny, unemployed and divorced and back home with her mother, takes on a seemingly straightforward PI case, following a man whom his wife suspects of having an affair. Hannah too has an investigation of her own - when her flatmate and fellow student Mel suddenly disappears, she finds herself opening up a can of worms (literally in some of their cases) as she discovers more about her seemingly hard-working, studious friend. Then there's also the case of the missing employee, who disappeared suddenly several years ago. So several storylines, but the book is well written and divided into fairly short chapters focussing mainly on each of the 3 women, so the different strands are easy to follow, though by the end I was starting to think that maybe there were too many coincidences. As it has a distinctly morbid tone, and is rather gruesome in places, I can't say I enjoyed it overall, but the characters are all engaging, and Edinburgh is well-described, making it almost a character in it's own right. I will definitely read more of the Skelfs, but it is rather depressing at times so maybe not to everyone's taste. 7.5/10

Will probably start mine tomorrow as I'm about to finish my current read, mine is "A Shetland Winter Mystery" by Marsali Taylor, set on the Shetland Isles during winter so there should be a lot of snow!🌨️

The thin Wall - Ultravox

Another suitcase in another Hall - Barbara Dickson

Fantastic news!

Mr Blue Sky - ELO

The Unforgettable Fire - U2

Oh no, just what you need.... glad you're on the mend now and hope you get home soon.

Careless memories - Duran Duran

Memories Fade - Tears for Fears

Fade to Grey - Visage