banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with frequent visits home. Among numerous prizes, she has won two of Left Coast Crime’s coveted Humorous Lefty Awards, as well as the inaugural Anthony Award for Best Humorous Novel, for the Last Ditch comedies. Her latest novel is Hop Scot.
[The Page 69 Test: Go to My Grave; Writers Read: Catriona McPherson (November 2018); My Book, The Movie: The Turning Tide; The Page 69 Test: The Turning Tide; My Book, The Movie: A Gingerbread House]
At CrimeReads she tagged five favorite holiday crime novels, including:
Tied Up in Tinsel, by Ngaio MarshRead about the other entries on the list.
The action takes place in a country house, right enough. And there’s a gathering of old frenemies too. But, as is often the case with Marsh, nothing’s quite as cozy as it seems. The staff of the stately pile are all convicted murderers, out on parole; thus has the lord of the manor solved the servant problem. So when the corpse hits the parquet, as corpses must in this genre, there’s no shortage of suspects. By 1972, when this book was published, Marsh was unapologetically playing with the Golden-Age tropes and never better than here, her twenty-seventh entry in the series, with nothing to prove and fun to be had.
--Marshal Zeringue
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