{"id":24339,"date":"2025-03-23T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24339"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:20:08","slug":"murder-most-actual-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24339","title":{"rendered":"Murder Most Actual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murder Most Actual<\/em><\/a> (2021) Alexis Hall<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"Murder<\/a><\/p>\n

These are desperate times, Miss Blaine. And desperate times call for desperate measures.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDesperate measures that mostly cause problems for people who aren\u2019t you?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who aren\u2019t me,\u201d said the colonel, \u201caren\u2019t really my concern at the moment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marriage was getting to the end of the serial and hearing the host say, \u201cWhen I first started this journey, I thought I\u2019d find answers, but all I have is more questions,\u201d every single day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should be able to send arguments off to a lab and get a little report back saying, \u201cThis happened because your mother-in-law is an unbearable snob,\u201d or, \u201cTrace DNA evidence shows that you definitely did say you were going to be back late this evening and your wife just didn\u2019t hear you because she never pays attention to you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Liza Blaine, Hanna Blaine, Professor Worth, Lady Tabitha Quirke, Colonel John Coleman,, Sir Richard Quirke, Reverend Lincoln, Ruby, Mr Burgh, Perseus Belloc, Emmeline White, Vivien Ackroyd, Malcom Ackroyd<\/p>\n

Publisher: Kobo Originals<\/p>\n

Original illustration & cover design by Monika Roe<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murder Most Actual (2021) Alexis Hall These are desperate times, Miss Blaine. And desperate times call for desperate measures.\u201d \u201cDesperate measures that mostly cause problems for people who aren\u2019t you?\u201d \u201cPeople who aren\u2019t me,\u201d said the colonel, \u201caren\u2019t really my concern at the moment.” Marriage was getting to the end of the serial and hearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192,30,897,190,292,204,8,148,41],"tags":[227,545],"class_list":["post-24339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-5-10","category-british","category-contemporary","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-good","category-mystery","category-queer","category-reread","tag-alexis-hall","tag-ff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6kz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22217,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22217","url_meta":{"origin":24339,"position":0},"title":"Murder Most Actual","author":"Michelle","date":"September 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Murder Most Actual (2021) Alexis Hall Clue, but with a married lesbian couple. 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