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The British Weekly, Sat. November 21, 2015<br />

Stargazing with Annie Shaw<br />

VIVE LA FRANCE!<br />

ARIES: In any relationship situation please understand you can’t control everything that<br />

people think, so all you can do is keep an eye on what the other person is doing.<br />

TAURUS: Your priority should be taking care of YOUR life in any area that requires<br />

attention. Start with what you know is well overdue. On the upside you can expect a<br />

call from a long ago friend with a great invite.<br />

GEMINI: If you just think about it you will know that your gut feeling has been right all along on a very important<br />

situation. Try to relax this weekend and not sweat about what you cannot change. You will be making an overdue<br />

call this week.<br />

CANCER: You will have to be aware this next week to not speak out of turn. You can be as discreet as a cat waiting<br />

for a mouse if you choose. This should be a time to observe, not act and life will be sweeter for your patience.<br />

LEO: You may have old issues or feelings you are still holding onto. We all have at some point in life, however for<br />

you it’s time to deal with it. The best way is to think it out well before you say anything.<br />

VIRGO: Keeping good health in mind, body and spirit is important now. Jupiter the gift bringer is with you until<br />

later next year and he will make sure all is well with you. With this in mind make sure you keep checking in with<br />

your intuition as to when to let go.<br />

LIBRA: If you have things you need to be working on in the home area get moving and you can be finished by next<br />

week’s holiday. Speaking of holidays you might have an unexpected visitor in your future, but don’t worry, you’ll<br />

be glad of the surprise.<br />

SCORPIO: The planet Jupiter is in a compatible sign for you in more than one way. It’s a positive time to celebrate<br />

what you have learned about love and its many faces.<br />

SAGITTARIUS: Life for you recently in part has not moved in the direction you would have wished for, however<br />

because you do not know what life is preparing for you it is best to let things flow. With this is mind do not plan as<br />

the outcome is different and good. Happy Birthday.<br />

CAPRICORN: As you have discovered recently life has not gone as you planned but it is going in the right direction<br />

even if you are not aware of it. The long-term visitor Pluto is changing the face of your whole existence slowly but<br />

surely, now and in the near future.<br />

AQUARIUS: Time will tell if you are ready to give up something that you have held onto - maybe a grievance or<br />

hurt from long ago. You will have more joyful things to think about in the near future .Travel for a distance is also<br />

on the cards<br />

PISCES: You are the only one who can set your own boundaries and take a leading role in who decides what for<br />

your life. This should be here soon as you have the lovely planet Jupiter in your life over the holidays.<br />

Exclusive interview<br />

with author G.M.<br />

Malliet and a review<br />

of her latest Max<br />

Tudor mystery<br />

became endpapers in the<br />

hardcover version of the<br />

first book, and appeared<br />

in several books thereafter.<br />

It also features as a banner<br />

on my website. In other<br />

words, I got a lot of<br />

mileage out of that one<br />

map.”<br />

The Haunted Season<br />

brings the classic elements<br />

of a British village<br />

mystery, but the stories are<br />

not old fashioned. It’s a<br />

wonderful twist that cleric<br />

Max Tudor was once an<br />

MI5 agent. The book starts<br />

with the point of view of<br />

Max’s new assistant<br />

Destiny in London, which<br />

is fine, except it switches<br />

abruptly to Max in the<br />

village. What happened to<br />

Destiny? The relationship<br />

between Max and his<br />

New Age wife is<br />

charming.<br />

In the sleepy English<br />

village of Nether<br />

Monkslip, Max Tudor the<br />

vicar and his parishioners<br />

look forward to the return<br />

of Lord and Lady<br />

Baaden-Boomethistle.<br />

There’s a murder and a<br />

secret involving a<br />

kidnapped baby. And,<br />

there’s a violation of the<br />

sanctuary of the church.<br />

Your typical British<br />

sleuthing. Overall, the<br />

story has too many twists,<br />

mysteries and sub<strong>plots</strong>.<br />

For research, Malliet did<br />

a lot of reading on rural<br />

England and English<br />

villages. “I also follow the<br />

weather over there quite<br />

closely as it is always an<br />

element of my books. And<br />

travel, I get to the UK once<br />

a year on average.<br />

Yorkshire is a particular<br />

favorite although my Max<br />

Tudor books are set along<br />

the Southwestern coast. I<br />

recently revisited Orchard<br />

House, home of Louisa<br />

May Alcott, and I was<br />

teary-eyed as I was<br />

leaving. To have that kind<br />

of impact on generations<br />

of readers, I think that is<br />

what every writer secretly<br />

hopes for.”<br />

All four of the Max<br />

Tudor books to date have<br />

been nominated for the<br />

Agatha Award for best<br />

novel. Malliet’s first St.<br />

Just book, Death of a Cozy<br />

Writer, won the Malice<br />

Domestic grant and the<br />

Malice Domestic Agatha<br />

award. Malliet says the<br />

Max Tudor and St. series<br />

were written with<br />

television in mind, and<br />

have yet to be optioned for<br />

TV or film.<br />

Anne Brewer at<br />

Minotaur Publishing<br />

Macmillan is Malliet’s<br />

• Bangers<br />

• Melton<br />

Mowbray Pies<br />

•Ready-to-Bake<br />

Sausage Rolls<br />

MEAT PRODUCTS<br />

Page 9<br />

Stars/Book Review<br />

Jolly Good<br />

“Always the Best”<br />

Tel: (323) 290-2265<br />

A Very Psychic Tea .......<br />

with Annie Shaw<br />

In the Tea room at Ye Olde Kings<br />

head with famed star-gazer and<br />

psychic Annie Shaw. For bookings<br />

call: (310) 392-1681<br />

The Haunted Season: classic British mystery<br />

Rating: HHH<br />

“Every single life<br />

decision I’ve made has<br />

been in the furtherance<br />

of the novels I longed to<br />

write,” says The Haunted<br />

Season author G.M.<br />

Malliet. “I suppose I had<br />

some hero-worship of<br />

authors going on as I was<br />

growing up. I couldn’t<br />

think of a more glamorous<br />

occupation.”<br />

“The fictional village of<br />

Nether Monkslip was the<br />

starting point for this<br />

series,” says Malliet. “I<br />

started doodling a rough<br />

sketch of the village, that<br />

sketch in the hands of a<br />

skilled artist named Rhys<br />

Davies, commissioned by<br />

my editor at the time, later<br />

editor. “Just being<br />

published was a life-long<br />

dream come true,” says<br />

Malliet. “The most<br />

difficult part of writing a<br />

book is that you are never<br />

quite done. You edit and<br />

revise and copy edit and<br />

proof, and by the time it is<br />

actually published you<br />

feel like you’ve read it a<br />

dozen times, which you<br />

pretty much have, and<br />

you are itching to move on<br />

to the next thing.”<br />

Malliet got her break<br />

when editor at Minotaur<br />

found her online. “She<br />

liked what she’d seen on<br />

my website,” says Malliet.<br />

“Fortunately, I had been<br />

sketching out the Max<br />

books in my head and on<br />

paper for a long time by<br />

that point, so I was ready.”<br />

Malliet is next writing<br />

the fourth book in the St.<br />

Just mystery series. She’s<br />

finishing writing a draft of<br />

a standalone mystery,<br />

first-person, set in one of<br />

the posh postal codes just<br />

Book Corner with<br />

Gabrielle Pantera<br />

outside London. “It is a bit<br />

of Desperate Housewives in<br />

the Village,” says Malliet.<br />

Malliet lives with her<br />

husband in Virginia, near<br />

Washington, D.C. She<br />

spent her childhood in<br />

Fairbanks, Alaska, living<br />

in a log cabin.<br />

Website: Gmmalliet.com.<br />

Facebook.com/g.m.malliet<br />

The Haunted Season: A Max<br />

Tudor Mystery by G. M.<br />

Malliet. Hardcover: 304 pages.<br />

Publisher: Minotaur Books<br />

(October 6, 2015). Language:<br />

English ISBN-13:<br />

978-1250021441 $25.99

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