The prompt is both 'feedback' and 'review'. As there doesn't seem to be anyway to contact HarperCollins directly, I'm using this form for feedback.
Location 231 of the kindle version: 'the room's attention ...' → the crowd's attention, the group's attention
Location 450: '... on the stove to boil and promptly forgot ...' → immediately forgot, simply forgot
Location 936: 'bloviated'? Really? From a Brit?
Location 1275: 'he couldn't have held an arrow still' → held a bow still
'"Did you run out of wool?"' → Have you run out
Location 1291: 'a box was perched' → a box perched, or a box was on the edge of the table
Location 1337: 'fire an arrow' → doesn't one shoot an arrow?
The author has never wound wool from a skein! They're usually around one and a half to two feet in length and, to be any use as the holder, you have to hold it taut. Miss Marple would struggle to wind it quickly if the skein was held loosely.
And the myth about eye colour! As one of brown-eyed siblings with blue-eyed parents ...

I'm come back to this, I'm sure 😏

Stunning!! Really enjoying the netgalley copy!! If I didn't know better - I would think Agatha Christie had written the stories!! The 12 stories were written so well and made you a part of each individual story!! Well done on producing such a wonderful book!! I will be recommending this book to my like minded reader friends!!

Very much almost 5 stars. I was very excited to get pre-publication access via Netgalley to this book. I am a big Agatha Christie fan of both her leading detectives. I was also a bit worried as modern attempts to prolong the life of well-known literary creations have/do not always work. Very pleased to say that for the most part this Miss Marple collection was very satisfying, all over too soon! Some of my favourite authors are here as well well as one or too that are completely new to me. They all seem to know their way round the original stories or give a very good impression anyway. There are several hark backs to the original Marple adventures regarding plot devices and a good use of familiar characters. For me a couple did not work at all which is pretty good out of twelve. I am not sure that transporting Miss Marple across the Atlantic is a good idea. Like a most welcome box of lovely chocolates, there are always favourites, pretty good ones and a couple that stay in the box until you are desperate. Thank you Netgalley.

The spirit of Christie lives on.

First things first - I've always preferred Miss Marple to Hercule Poirot. There, that's out of the way. Second, rightly or wrongly, I always hear Joan Hickson when I read a Marple story.

When I was lucky enough to receive a Netgalley ARC of the new short story collection "Marple" I admit to going in with a certain degree of apprehension. Agatha Christie had a style of writing that no other Golden Age author could replicate. Nor can many current authors; only Jill Paton-Walsh came close, with her Lord Peter Wimsey books.

So you can imagine my delight when I found that not only one, but twelve contemporary writers have succeeded in capturing the magic that is a Miss Marple story. The language, the characterisation, and the plotting are all spot-on. I even heard Joan Hickson's voice. There are nosy neighbours, pompous matriarchs, and all the other facets that make up the perfect Marple story.

I've always felt that the Miss Marple short stories were more rewarding than the novels - clean, concise, but still delivering the quintessential Miss Marple in a small package. That's what you get in this book. She ventures far and wide, well outside St Mary Meade, but always uses her knowledge of small-village antics to solve the mystery. Like all collections, some of the stories chime with the reader more than others - a couple reminded me more of the Geraldine McEwan Marple than Joan Dickson. But none were less than a joy to devour.

Fans of Golden Age detection in general, and Agatha Christie in particular, will be delighted. I'll be first in the queue for a proper copy when it's released. Thoroughly recommended.

Available from September 15, this is an absolute treat if you love Agatha Christie’s creation (tick) and modern crime writers such as Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid (tick, tick, tick, tick). Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930’s The Murder at the Vicarage. This impressive collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why for many, Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time. From time spent in the Big Apple – and a mystery that ensues – to hopping on board a ship bound for Hong Kong, to the seemingly slower but no less adventure-ridden life in St Mary Mead and the English countryside, this is something to cherish and dip into whenever you feel like a Jane Marple boost. Loved it.

Marple is back at her best. I couldn’t help but think about Agatha Christie when I was reading this story collection. I feel she would definitely be proud that a group of modern authors have brought back one of her best characters. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough!