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1995 mystery, eighth of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. Eleven years ago, someone set up a candle and flowers on the altar, but it never became clear why; now, the skeleton of a young woman has been discovered in the churchyard…
It is a truism that RPGs can be divided into "crunchy" (lots of fiddly details) and "fluffy" (never mind consistency, let's just tell a good story). But I think there's a significant subdivision.
Back before the pandemic began I named WH Smith in my corporate dead pool. At long last it has happened.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string manipulation and sorting. (Note that this ends today.)
2014 Ruritanian fantasy-romance, second of its series. Antuniet Chazillen left the country after her brother was executed for treason, but someone's after her and she's run out of places to flee. Jeanne de Cherdillac is a scandalous widow and social butterfly.
1993 drama, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent; IMDb / allmovie. After the great composer dies in a car crash, his widow tries to pick up her life.
2018 fantasy novella, side story in the Harwood Spellbook series. Before the events of the novels, Amy Standish is a rising young pollitician who must marry a magician to gain rank in the Boudiccate. But Jonathan Harwood, resolutely non-magical, remains her temptation…
1999 found-footage horror, dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, Heather Donahue; IMDb / allmovie. Three filmmakers enter, no filmmakers leave.
2021 SF, first of a planned five-book series. An exploration ship vanishes. The captain's father, a naval hero from the last war, doesn't trust the authorities to do a good enough job looking, so arranges to "borrow" a starship and go hunting himself.