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I wonder if the Charity Shop Detective Agency is trying to ride on the back of the success of the Thursday Murder Club?
Jim wrote: "I wonder if the Charity Shop Detective Agency is trying to ride on the back of the success of the Thursday Murder Club?"yes does have that vibe about the title!
Read Scream Blue Murder by Tony J Forder - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
The City of Brass by S A Chakraborty - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and
The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So behind with posting reviews so this will be a long update:Bad Vibrations by Christine Pope - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Ciphers of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Behind You by Rylie Dark - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Murder at the Book Festival by Jane Bettany - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Ancient Fire by Ellen Read - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Institute by Stephen King - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and The Housemaid's Secret by the same author - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and finally
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
A Calamity of souls by David BaldacciDavid Baldacci - Wow, loved this very though provoking legal thriller - Here's my 5* review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Just realised I forgot to post my review catchup from 27 Feb!Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2981018491
The Inquisition by Michael Baigent and Richard Lee - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two in the Rebus series by Ian Rankin - Resurrection Men - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... - and the first volume, Knots and Crosses - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Trials of Marjorie Crowe by C S Robertson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Beong-mo - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Some more that were written but not posted - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Never Surrender by John Kelly - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Keeper of Stories - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 2: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle, and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The King's Speech by Mark Logue - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished All the President’s Men and Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975Just started Lenin the Dictator
Finally got round to reading this massive tome but it's a thumbs up from me - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron, the first in his Oxford Investigations series. Good stuff, but not as knockout as his inimitable Slough House series.Just started The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, a really interesting fictitious dialogue on the ideas of psychotherapist Alfred Adler. Some sound life advice here.
Review catchup:Two books by Janice Hallett: The Appeal - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... - and The Twyford Code - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
a zombie novel by Jonathan Maberry, Dead of Night - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek by Marcus Berkmann - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
An Afternoon Walk by Dorothy Eden - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin, Rebus book 2, on a re-read. Reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
Read Max Brooks' World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
Let Me In by Claire McGowan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Murder of Tutankhamen by Robert Brier - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
The Widow's Retreat by A J Carter - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Cosmos by Carl Sagan, which was often pretty trippy, but a hefty read.Just started Burial Rites by Hannah Kent for my book club.
Got behind with posting links to my reviews:Blunt Force by Lynda La Plante - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Vanishing of Class 3Bby Jackie Kabler - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lost Boys by Tim Sullivan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Life & Death by J M Dalgleish - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Where Water Lies by Hilary Tailor - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up on reviews:The Crossing by Matt Brolly - reviewed -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Death Cursed by Sara C Roethle - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Accidental Magic by Iris Beaglehole - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read and reviewed a few more, sadly not to my taste:The Brightest Star in the Sky - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Alone - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It Ends At Midnight - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read four books and reviewed them:The Intruders by Louise Jensen -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Shell House Detectives by Emylia Hall - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read and reviewed:The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment
by Michael Hunter - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Cats Prey by Dorothy Eden - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
From Pitch to Publication: Everything You Need to Know to Get Your Novel Published by Carole Blake - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read a couple of spy novels, but found them disappointing:Watchman by Ian Rankin - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catchup on posting my reviews:They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Haunted by James Herbert - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catchup on a few read recently:The Fog by James Herbert - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and two by Ann McCaffrey:
Dragonsong - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Review catchup:Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Moon by James Herbert - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Big review catchup:The Pretty Ones by Dorothy Eden - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Place Called Perfect by Helena Duggan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Get off the Unicorn also by Anne McCaffrey - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and a more detailed review of the Pern story in that collection - The Smallest Dragonboy - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Aftermath by Harald Jahner - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nerilka's Story & The Coelura by Anne McCaffrey - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
The Midnight News by Jo Baker - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Big review catchup:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Clock Stopped Dead by J M Hall - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One by One by Freida McFadden - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Murder at the House on the Hill by Victoria Walters - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I seem to have forgotten to post the last several reviews I wrote:The Shining by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The first three in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King:
The Gunslinger - reviewed -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Drawing of the Three - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Waste Lands - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and also read Under the Breaking Sky: The Complete Apocalyptic Horror Series by Nick Clausen - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And another short read:Falling Down by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Review catchup (reading quite a few horror books for Halloween):The Ritual by Adam L. G. Nevill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
First two books in the Harvesting series by Melanie Karsak - The Harvesting and Midway - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
100 Days in Deadland by Rachel Aukes - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and Stephen King's It - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Big catchup on reviews:read the rest of the Boy in the Iron Box series by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan:
Book 3 The Hunted reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 4 - Risen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 5 - Siege - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 6 - Encounter - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Ryan Casey - Pandemic Z: The First Night: A Post Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The House of the Witch by Clare Marchant - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Fairy Tale by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Another catchup. Read a few more books in Stephen King's Dark Tower series:Book 4 - Wizard and Glass - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 4.5 - The Wind Through the Keyhole - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 5 - Wolves of the Calla - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 6 - Song of Susannah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Plus three by Dean Koontz -
Phantoms - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Bad Weather Friend - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Forest of Lost Souls - reviewed -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and a couple by different authors:
Agatha Christie's - Hallowe'en Party - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and a romantic suspense from the 1970s by Winston Graham - Woman in the Mirror - reviewed -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not keen on this one - The Last Guest House by Caroline Mitchellhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Latest reads - Anne McCaffrey Pern series - Dragonsdawn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and The Drift by C.J. Tudor - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just realised I don't seem to have posted any of my reviews since mid November:Three by Anna Willett -
Unwelcome Guests - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and Lost to the Lake - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
plus first in her Cold Case series The Woman Behind Her- reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Murder In Maastricht by Graham Brack - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Michael Connolly - The Black Echo - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two by Louise Douglas:
The Summer of Lies - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Secret of Villa Alba - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
two by Debra Castaneda:
The Spore Queen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
A Dark and Rising Tide - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Christmas Murder by Mary Grand - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Third Girl by Agatha Christie - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and a re-read of Circe by Madeline Miller, opinion unchanged and enjoyed it just as much this time around - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read two more:The Nine Lives of Kit Marlowe by Jay Margrave - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Family Man by Anna Willett - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Last reads of 2024:Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime by Agatha Christie - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Killer’s Christmas List by Chris Frost - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
First of 2025 as I finished it today:The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
The Surf House byLucy Clarke Lucy Clarke, coming out next month. Its brilliant if you need a destination thriller to take you away from it all. Here's my 5 star review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The Charity Shop Detective Agency by Peter Boland - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Marriage Lie by Kimberley Bell - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...