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While celebrities fly in, these Gold Coasters stranded overseas feel less Australian By Dominic Cansdale
On the day she was supposed to get married last year, Michelle Doherty tested positive for COVID-19. Initially it was like being hit in the face, Michelle says. I d walk into the kitchen and be like, I need to sit down .
But even after enduring Spain s lockdown, where Ms Doherty could only leave her home for one hour a day, the lowest blow came in February this year, when both of her grandparents on the Gold Coast died. Even with my family, my sisters, I was like Can you just keep me on the phone in the room with everybody?
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Book World: Five thrillers to read now - and soon
Richard Lipez, The Washington Post
March 5, 2021
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Spring is in the air - and so is intrigue and mayhem - in five first-rate new mysteries and thrillers out this month and next. These twisty, smartly told tales will help put the long, dark winter behind you.
- The Cook of the Halcyon, by Andrea Camilleri
Before he died in 2019 at age 93, novelist and film director Andrea Camilleri wrote in an author s note that he had adapted the 27th Inspector Salvo Montalbano mystery from an unproduced screenplay. That novel, The Cook of the Halcyon, despite a bloody shootout in the final chapters, is more Buster Keaton than Quentin Tarantino. What makes it especially worth reading - and essential for fans of the series - is the chance to watch the Sicilian next-meal-obsessed, endearingly cranky Mon