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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
Thu May 18, 2023, 10:21 PM May 2023

I want to recommend a series.

The author is Iona Whishaw. The books are about a woman, Lane Winslow, who moves from England to western Canada shortly after the end of WWII. She'd been a spy during the war, and is more than ready for a change. She rents a house, and not long after a body shows up on her property. I love the book, love the complications.

There are now 10 books in the series, and they have gotten steadily better.

Here's a link to the books: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=books+by+Iona+whishaw

And I feel obligated to say that I went to high school with Iona, which is in part why I started reading them, but even without that connection I'd be recommending them.

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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
2. So you've read it, right?
Thu May 18, 2023, 11:29 PM
May 2023

I'm very impressed at how each book gets better and better.

Because I know Iona, I sent her an email after finishing the most recent book telling her how much I liked it, and how I felt I was in Canada and in England.



efhmc

(14,709 posts)
3. Very good story line with interesting characters.
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:01 AM
May 2023

As a Texan, not much on cold settings. Too claustrophobic for me, but this has a good mix of climate situations. Always looking for new stuff. Right now going back to old British detectives. the cosies are too sweetsie for me and I don't like the hard core either. Good luck to your friend. She is a good writer.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
4. So glad you like the series, espcially since I know the author.
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:26 AM
May 2023

I will recommend another series I've recently discovered. The author is Paul Doiron, and the protagonist is a game warden in Maine. Very interesting so far. I'm only part way through the first of the series, but liking it a lot.

I will also recommend books bu Brian McGilloway. He has two sries, and two stand alone novels. They are all good.

Oh, and I will pass on to Iona that a random friend really likes her. Thanks

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
5. Good, she's on Audible, been looking for something good, I'll try her out
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:56 AM
May 2023

I just finished Brendan O'Carroll's autobiography, which was hilarious.

If you don't know, he's Mrs. Brown in "Mrs. Brown's Boys," one of the funniest things ever to hit UK TV. Excerpts used to be on YouTube, but most of them have been removed for language. Fucking prisspots.

If you get Irish humor, I recommend both.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
6. Thank you -- I will look them up. Have you read Jacqueline Winspear's "Maisie Dobbs" series?
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:57 AM
May 2023

They are also very good, and I think there’s 17 books. They take Maisie from pre-WWI London as a girl, on through WWII. She doesn’t set out to be a spy, but becomes one…

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