Tag: Imperfect Strangers

Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words

Dead Reckoning – a Review

by Lisa • January 27, 2023 • 2 Comments

In this thriller, Sally and Gilly have a secret, one that Gilly hasn’t even shared with her husband. When she was young, she and her best friend Sally, found something one day in the cemetery: they found a box with a dead baby in it.

Challenges I Faced as an American Living in Japan – Guest Post by Lea O’Harra

by Lisa • January 19, 2023 • 2 Comments

I first arrived in Japan in the spring of ’84 to take up a job I had got while completing my doctorate on 18th century English literature at Edinburgh University. I had been hired as a “Guest Professor of English” by a new university located in a fishing village in northern Shikoku. Shikoku is one of Japan’s four main islands, but it is also the smallest, the most rural and, at that time – before the construction of bridges linking it to Honshu and Kyushu – the most remote.

And Then There Were Bodies – a Review

Mr. Muffins Goes to Paris – a Review

Jacob’s Well – a Review

The Fourth Victim – a Review