The Crime Coast by #ElizabethGill #BenvenutoBrown @DeanStPress #CrimeFiction #BookReview
A review of The Crime Coast by Elizabeth Gill – 231012
Elizabeth Gill, the nom de plume of Elizabeth Joyce Copping, is another new author to me. In her short life, she lived to be just thirty-three, she published three crime novels, all featuring her exotically named amateur sleuth, Benvenuto Brown. The Crime Coast, which also goes by the alternative title of Strange Holiday, was the first in…
Max: I hate that SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember and DECember are not the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months.
Nathan: Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed.
Warren: If I recall, they did used to be the corresponding months. It was just when Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Augustus came into power, the months July (Julius) and August (Augustus) were added, thus throwing off the numbering of the calendar.
Chloe: Good news, though: whoever fucked it up did, in fact, get stabbed.
I watched a TV show this weekend (Captivating the King) where a tree was planted to represent a guy by his brother. Then there is a lightening storm and the tree is the only thing hit and burns to the ground. Predictably, the guy is freaking out because God smitted (smote?) a representation of himself. So I think to myself, "Never plant a tree that represents someone."
BUT THEN, I'm re-reading A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott today where Rosamund (main character) watches a tree her dad planted at her birth get struck by lightening and if she had paid attention to the bad omen maybe she would have avoided some very bad stuff later (trying not to spoil). So then I think to myself, "No, no. Plant trees that represent people and pay attention to omens."
Tony, dressed like Santa and lying on the floor of Morgan’s room: ouch
Stephen: babe, what’s wrong?
Tony: I try to give Magu her gifts, but the moment I got through the window she hit me with her toy Iron Man gauntlet and kicked me in the balls yelling: “go away creep!” I’m both proud and concerned