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Family is the first in Owen Mullen's new Glass Family series. Two crime families vie for supremacy, but don't think the Glass siblings are the good guys!
Link to my review of Family
I read Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead i enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone interested in historical fiction. See my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean is confronting, excellent suspense told by a captive Vietnamese 'bride'. I don't know how he did it, but she sounds real!
4.5★ Link to my review of Last Thing to Burn
I finished The Ex Hex
by Erin Sterling. It's a light and fun paranormal romantic comedy featuring witches Vivienne Jones and Rhys Penhallow. My 3.5 star review rounded to 4 stars for the pure enjoyment and fun that I had reading the book:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Three Sisters by Heather Morris It is a true story of 3 Slovakian Jewish sisters sent to Auschwitz. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Still available.
I finished reading a dark, young adult thriller The Falling Girls by Hayley Krischer. 4.5 StarsIt takes a close look at the love/hate relationship between teen girls - especially what can happen when one feels betrayed and becomes obsessed with getting even. My Review
Just finished a beautiful piece of Australian fiction,
All About Ella by Meredith Appleyard https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished the heart stopping Last Seen Alive (Ellery Hathaway #5), https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm now able to post my review for The Orphan Witch
by Paige Crutcher. The author brings suspense, heartbreak, magic, and hope to her debut novel.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Stowaway by James S. Murray, a dark, intense thriller that gave me goosebumps. Trapped at sea with a serial killer?? No, thanks! 4.5 Stars My Review
I just finished The Corpse Flower
Well done Scandinavian noir. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catch Us The Foxes by Aussie author Nicola West is a twisty, complicated thriller with a good premise and great atmosphere. It eventually got too weird for me.
2.5~3★ Link to my Catch Us The Foxes review
I read One More Kill by Carolyn Arnold It is an FBI police procedural. The FBI's BAU is on the hunt for a serial killer. It is book 9 in the series.My 3.5 star review rounded up: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
Stranded by Sarah GoodwinSarah GoodwinBrilliant if you love Bear Grylls Survivor Show/The Castaways/Lord of the Flies/Hunger Games
Here's my 5 star review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The audio book is brilliant too.
Here is my 5 star review of Dark Night
by Paige Shelton. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is the third book in the Alaska Wild Mysteries series. It's a well-written mystery novel that combines traditional police detective work and amateur sleuthing. Secrets, murder, and a horrific experience that continues to haunt and traumatize the main character make for a suspenseful and riveting read. The author does a great job of portraying the hardships and lack of amenities as well as the friendships, pace of life, the wonders, and the dangers of living in and around small town Alaska.
The thriller Falling, by T.J. Newman, has attracted a lot of fans, and I can see why. It would make a terrific movie or mini-series. A terrible dilemma, lots of tension, and some good characters.
3.5★ Link to my review of Falling
Sorry forgot to add on here so copied my own review to add here.
Firstly of course, thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author for an ARC copy for my honest review.
Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen's Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn's experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, and work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance, gave her the determination to become a humanitarian for UNICEF and the fearlessness to charge into war-torn countries in the Third World on behalf of children and their mothers in desperate need. She set the standard for celebrity humanitarians and--according to her son Luca Dotti--ultimately gave her life for the causes she espoused.
Robert Matzen has in this book gone deeper than any other book on the great actress Audrey Hepuburn, his incredible research, studies, interviews must have been enormous.
We know from his previous books, and on other authors biographies the history of her story, her incredibly sad and shocking childhood and here in this book her strength, power, determination with her work for UNICEF.
This book although heavy and slow reading in parts what it does show is the chaos in Audrey Hepburn's life, country to country seeing so much poverty throughout the world, this to me is what stands out in this book. Audrey's determination in sharing her knowledge to the world!
I belief very much like the author the sights and poverty that Audrey experienced were shocking, and as she said to a friend "Sometimes I do not sleep at night", that is a lot of package to carry around your shoulders later in your life and I am sure effected her health.
Audrey was truly a "warrior", faced the toughest battle of all, her health. Fighting against severe pains flying worldwide to promote UNICEF, going to Somalia when she should have been thinking of her own health and wellbeing.
A brave, courageous, talented, loved woman. A star, a hero, a woman to be remembered for her film work but more for her work for UNICEF. Thank you
Firstly of course, thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author for an ARC copy for my honest review.
Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen's Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn's experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, and work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance, gave her the determination to become a humanitarian for UNICEF and the fearlessness to charge into war-torn countries in the Third World on behalf of children and their mothers in desperate need. She set the standard for celebrity humanitarians and--according to her son Luca Dotti--ultimately gave her life for the causes she espoused.
Robert Matzen has in this book gone deeper than any other book on the great actress Audrey Hepuburn, his incredible research, studies, interviews must have been enormous.
We know from his previous books, and on other authors biographies the history of her story, her incredibly sad and shocking childhood and here in this book her strength, power, determination with her work for UNICEF.
This book although heavy and slow reading in parts what it does show is the chaos in Audrey Hepburn's life, country to country seeing so much poverty throughout the world, this to me is what stands out in this book. Audrey's determination in sharing her knowledge to the world!
I belief very much like the author the sights and poverty that Audrey experienced were shocking, and as she said to a friend "Sometimes I do not sleep at night", that is a lot of package to carry around your shoulders later in your life and I am sure effected her health.
Audrey was truly a "warrior", faced the toughest battle of all, her health. Fighting against severe pains flying worldwide to promote UNICEF, going to Somalia when she should have been thinking of her own health and wellbeing.
A brave, courageous, talented, loved woman. A star, a hero, a woman to be remembered for her film work but more for her work for UNICEF. Thank you
I was delighed to enjoy watching Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club solve the mystery of The Man Who Died Twice. It's every bit as good as their first outing, I reckon!
5★ Link to my Man Who Died Twice review
I can now post my review of Getaway With Murder
by Diane Kelly. This is the first book in the Mountain Lodge (Cozy) Mystery series. The setting was perfect for this novel and Ms. Kelly does a great job of transporting readers to the mountains of North Carolina. I was immediately drawn into the Misty’s life and enjoyed the unraveling of the mystery and the development of friendships. In both of the books I have read by this author, I had a connection with the writing style that I found relatable, vivid, and irresistible.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my review for One More Kill
by Carolyn Arnold. Carolyn Arnold brings depravity, action, and pulse-pounding moments to a gripping crime thriller and police procedural. The setting is mainly in and around Huntsville, Arkansas and is the ninth book in the Brandon Fisher FBI series.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I always like the Buzz Books, by Publishers Lunch, which publish the first chapters or excerpts from dozens of upcoming books and are free for anyone to download and read.Buzz Books 2021:Fall/Winter includes selections from famous established authors and some wonderful debuts. There's also non-fiction and Young Adult. I've included a smattering of samples of a few that appeal to me.
5★ Link to my Buzz Books review
The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4: New Books to Make Your Heart Race
I like 3 of the 6 well enough to request the novels.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey - a dark, somber thriller I couldn't put down. 4 stars My Review
It's now one month prior to publication date so I can post my review of Jingle Bell Wolf
by Terry Spear. This is the second book in the Wolff Brothers paranormal romance series.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4+* for Alex Finlay's second novel
Definitely can recommend this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Last Time She Died by Zoë Sharp, one of my favorite authors.
Her newest protagonist holds so much potential and intrigue as a main character!
My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4255889814
Better off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child.
My 3.5 ☆ (rounded up) review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4137665338
The Rowland Sinclair historical mystery series is terrific. He and friends travel around the world "between the wars" (WWI & WWII), chasing Nazis, dodging gangsters, mixing with the rich and famous (which Rowly is himself). Cameos: JFK, Errol Flyyn, F. Scott Fitzgerald among others.
5★ link to my review of Where There's a Will(known in Australia as A Testament of Character)
I finished These Deadly Games
by Diana Urban. This is a standalone YA psychological thriller that is suspenseful, shocking, and pulls on your heart strings with a high stakes and twisty story line.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not a thriller in the conventional sense, but there are mysteries about our memories here.Don't forget to remember! Having said that, you're probably remembering it all wrong anyway.
Neuroscientist Lisa Genova has got it all covered in Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, which explains a lot about why we argue about memories and worry about dementia.
Interesting, easy read and excellent resource.
5★ Link to my review of Remember
Now that my review publishing requirements have been met, I can post it here. I finished a crime thriller / police procedural that was shocking, suspenseful, and heartbreaking at times. Lethal Game
by Charlie Gallagher.My 5 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Chaos Kind by Barry Eisler
This combines characters from his two other most popular series. As this is the first thing I've read from this author, I can easily report that it works fine as a standalone. Spies on spies action.
My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4266782665
My Daughter's Mistake by Kate Hewitt ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
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I finished The Hunted
by Lisa Childs. this is the second book in the Bane Island Trilogy. It was was suspenseful and entertaining, and has plenty of action and drama. I found the writing style relatable, and vivid.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is one of the books previewed in volume 4 of the Minotaur Sampler: Pay Dirt Road
. Requested the novel and got it:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
Mercy by David BaldacciDavid Baldacci Here's my 5 star review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
Bad Apples by Will Dean, an excellent Halloween read. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
19 books! I love this series! Finished The Missing Piece
. Coming out in March, 2022.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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