The Man in Black and Other Stories by Elly Griffiths - Review

I am really sorry to have been absent from my blog for a bit. I was feeling a bit uncreative after I came back from a few days away, and then one of my beloved cats died very unexpectedly. She probably had a heart attack or something; it was very sudden. We're just very sad and shocked. I was about to start writing this post when she died, and I know it published as an empty post before. I'm sorry about that if you saw it. 

I also read this book weeks ago - I finished it on the 26th of July - and I feel like I've forgotten loads of what is in it. As with all Elly's books, I enjoyed it, though. It's a book of short stories; I've read a couple of Elly's short stories before but it was nice to read a whole book of them. I also read this just before I went to Norfolk on holiday and as a few of the stories are set in Norfolk it was nice to do this. 

Some of the usual suspects are here - Ruth and Nelson and Kate, Max Mephisto, and Harbinder Kaur. I liked all their stories, of course, and the one about Ruth's first Christmas tree. I've read that before but it was lovely to read it again as Kate is a baby in it and of course in the books she's quite grown up now. I loved seeing Max in the theatre and in the lodging houses again, and learning a bit more about his past. I liked the stories with new characters too. I think the best one was a twist in the tale about a woman who discovered something in her husband's garden... 

In all I'm giving this four out of five and I really liked it!