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[Liz]

I just finished listening to We Are All the Same in the Dark

It didn’t quite work for me. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Eva]

And finished a short read (164 pages), but nevertheless amazing!
Stephen King took my breath away, again!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


★★★★

[James]

Now starting on THE SHADOWS OF MEN by Abir Mukherjee, the fifth book in his ongoing mystery series featuring former Scotland Yard detective / WWI veteran Captain Sam Wyndham and his intrepid Indian police force Detective Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee. It is one of the best new series that I have discovered in the last few years.

[Marwan]

Started reading The 39 Steps by John Buchan

[Christine]

I finished my 99th book

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Christine]

Thanks Barbara

[Jean]

Just finished State of Terror

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Chris]

Just finished #2 in the Sherlock Holmes series The Sign of the Four Enjoyable locked room murder mystery and treasure hunt.

[Diane S ☔]

The House of Silk
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Christine]

[Sandysbookaday (taking a midwinter break)]

Finished the ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Road Leads Back by Marci Bolden. I just loved this and can't wait to read the next in the series. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Started How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid

[Liz]

I just listened to The Fourth Friend

A bit slow until a huge surprise ending. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jim]

Finished reading Lord Edgware Dies

by Agatha Christie

My Review

[Christine]

Sandy how’s your book going called How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid?

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Last night I finished Back Country by William Fuller, originally published in 1954 and set to be released February 2022. The publishers (Stark House) have this awesome pulp series called Black Gat Books, and this is the latest in that series. Since it's not coming out until then, I'll hold off posting until shortly before, but the gist of it is that a guy is traveling from the west coast of Florida to the east and his car breaks down in some little podunk town that is pretty much controlled by one man, with the expected good ole boy sheriff to do his dirty work.
Mayhem ensues and of course, there's a power struggle. Actually, it was pretty good, but I detest depictions of cockfights so that part was hard to read. Evidently this book was first in a series in its day. Plenty of sleaze but nothing on the scale of James M. Cain's The Cocktail Waitress, which was pure sleaze and not a joy to read. Ick.

[Barbara]

Reptile Memoirs by Silje O. Ulstein

In this dual timeline story set in Norway, three roommates adopt a python in 2005, and an 11-year-old girl goes missing in 2017.

Good book for thriller fans looking for something different. 3.5 stars

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Diane S ☔]

Read Songbirds
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Good historical fiction mysteries combine entertainment and history. When Gods Die by C.S. Harris does just that in Regency England (early 1800s).
4★ Link to my review of When Gods Die

[Jannelies (living between hope and fear)]

I finished The Woman at No. 13 by C.K. Williams


Here is my 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I also finished The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver


I'm currently reading State of Terror by Hilary Rodham Clinton

and so far, I'm impressed!

[Patty]

I just finished My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The only problem I had was getting into the way he writes. It’s very natural to how people talk. So, some sentences are run-on, and meander. After awhile, I appreciated it.

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Mortal Mischief

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Later today I'll be starting The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin), another Kosuke Kindaichi mystery.

[Barbara]

Murder Outside the Lines by Krista Davis

Bookstore manager/amateur sleuth Florrie Fox is in the midst of a Halloween crime spree in Georgetown.

Fun cozy mystery. 3 stars

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Randy]

Patty wrote: "I just finished My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The only problem I had was getting into the way he writes. It’s very natural to how people talk. So, some sentences are run-on..."

I really enjoyed -- if that's the right word -- The Only Good Indians, so I'm looking forward to this one.

Right now I'm about 1/3 into Magpie Murders and it enjoying a lot. Horowitz has the feel of Golden Age mysteries down and the mystery itself with all the suspects has hooked me. Doesn't hurt that I go to read a few pages and end up 25, 40, 60 pages deeper without really noticing time going by.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Randy wrote: "Patty wrote: "I just finished My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The only problem I had was getting into the way he writes. It’s very natural to how people talk. So, some senten..."

I liked the "golden age" feel of the book within the book in Magpie Murders, but the modern parts, especially the end, just went flat for me.

[Thomas]

I read City of the Dead. by Jonathan Kellerman
I rate it 3.5stars rounded up. It is a pleasant police procedural My review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I'm really enjoying The Village of Eight Graves so far (on p. 66). My crystal ball tells me I'll probably be reading well into the night. I updated my status on this book as follows:


"Well, let's see:

so far we have a rebellious and insane samurai,
a descendant who evidently carried the madness in his genes
a curse on the village
and oh yes ... a crazy nun.

this is so me. :)"

[Thomas]

I also read A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
I rated 3.5 stars rounded down. It is literary fiction, set in Jamaica.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Patty]

Nancy, I’m waiting for my copy of The Village of Eight Graves. I’m so excited!!!

[Lance]

The Rose Code is a moving, well-crafted exploration of the relationship between three very different young women during the chaos of WWII and under the pressures of the most celebrated codebreaking operation in history...interwoven with a spy caper that doesn't live up to what came before it. The heroines' stories are done so well that I forgot I don't usually read relationship dramas, enabling me to dismiss the spy-vs.-spy stuff that enticed me into the book in the first place. I'll probably read another Kate Quinn novel soon -- but next time, I'll know what I'm getting into. Four decrypts and a fragment.

Read the full review here.

[Ian]

Just finished reading Peter May's thriller The Fourth Sacrifice. Very much enjoyed. Here's my Goodreads review:

Goodreads review

[Jodé]

Clanlands Almanac: Season Stories from Scotland

Great Fun and you can spend an Outlandish Year with Sam and Graham.

https://booktrib.com/2021/12/29/spend...

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Patty wrote: "Nancy, I’m waiting for my copy of The Village of Eight Graves. I’m so excited!!!"

It's really good, so far (at p. 105). I'll offer a very good piece of advice: if you can, make a copy of the page and a half of the section that is called "The Inhabitants of Eight Graves." You'll be flipping back and forth otherwise.

[Patty]

Good advice, Nancy.

[Joelle]

Just finished:


Last Girl Ghosted

by: Lisa Unger.

Romance and Suspense unevenly balanced. See my full review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Patty wrote: "Good advice, Nancy."

I haven't put this book down at all today except to go get lunch.

[Diane S ☔]

Read American Melancholy: Poems
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jim]

Finished reading Mercy

David Baldacci

My Review

[Patty]

I’m currently reading Too Many Doctors by Holly Roth. Written in 1962. It’s the second of her Inspector Medford series. This is the third book of hers that I’ve read. A great writer of mysteries.