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Currently reading? Just finished? 2023
None of This Is True
kept me guessing up until the end. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished A Lonesome Blood-Red Sun by David Putnam
Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
After the Funeral
by Agatha ChristieThis is a classic Agatha Christie plot involving intrigue within a family. 3 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is the last book of the D.S. Billings quartet of books set in Victorian England. I have absolutely loved this series. 5/5 starsPlease read my review linked below:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
That Others May Live
does a great job of taking through the reader through a major search and rescue operation. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One Fell Sweep by Ilona AndrewsThis series have been written in an episodic manner. It's still fun to read then out of sequence.
My Review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Patty wrote: "This is the last book of the D.S. Billings quartet of books set in Victorian England. I have absolutely loved this series. 5/5 starsPlease read my review linked below:
https://www.goodreads.com..."
Interesting review Patty, adding to my want to reads!!
My review of Murder On The Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished the Cold War-era espionage thriller
Triple by Ken Follett
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
finishedThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/5879616972
Sweep of the Blade by Ilona AndrewsThis is the only installment so far in the series that's written in Maud's POV. All the others have been from Dina's perspective. This can be read as a standalone.
My Review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Blue Monsoon
by Damyanti BiswasDuring monsoon season, police in Mumbai investigate a vicious and bizarre murder in a Hindu temple.
Mumbai - and the social situation in India - provides an interesting backgound for this police procedural/thriller. 4 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Last Devil to Die
was fun and heartbreaking. My four star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished reading The Runaway Man by Kelley Tantau. Reaaaally good. It's a New Zealand crime novel about a man who voluntarily disappears. Has anyone else read it?
I read The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak I enjoyed it and recommend it to spy and or mystery fans. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Odyssey’s End by Matt Coyle It is a private eye mystery set in California.My 3.5-star review, rounded up https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I’m an outlier as I wasn’t a big fan of The Helsinki Affair
. My three star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Since finishing Silver Nitrate, I've been reading short stories in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, The Adventures of Ellery Queen and The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. Settling on something seems to be taking me some time.
Mother of the Bride Murder
by Leslie MeierAmateur sleuth Lucy Stone's daughter is getting married in France, and the whole family travels overseas for the nuptials. A murder occurs, and Lucy itches to investigate.
More family travel story than mystery. 3 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Randy wrote: "Since finishing Silver Nitrate, I've been reading short stories in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, The Adventures of Ellery Queen and [book:The Horror Stori..."
I get like that. All the time. It's a curse, really.
I get like that. All the time. It's a curse, really.
I recently finished
Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer which is the 1st in the William Warwick series. Had me ready to dive straight into book #2.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I recently finished The Better Mother by Emily Shiner
A nice though predictable read: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Homemaker by Miranda Rijks
A nice read, with good characters and a few interesting surprises: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Tilted World
sets the stage for prohibition against the backdrop of the flooding of the Mississippi in 1927. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The less I say the better, I think, about All That's Left Unsaid by Aussie author Rowena Holloway. Not for me.
My review of All That's Left Unsaid
I enjoyed the story of fugitive spook 'Bird' in
A Bird in Winter
by Louise Doughty. Glad I read it when I was warm at home, though, (and nobody was chasing me).
My review of A Bird in Winter
Currently reading A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand. At 108 pages in something should have happened but it hasn't.
Also finishing up The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr. His Castle Skull, It Walks by Night and The Corpse in the Waxworks were all great fun, although true to the period, a bit on the wordy side.
Also finishing up The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr. His Castle Skull, It Walks by Night and The Corpse in the Waxworks were all great fun, although true to the period, a bit on the wordy side.
The Secret Hours
by Mick HerronLet me say that I think I've read all the Slow Horses books and loved them all. This book is a precursor to those. I love Herron's style but I liked this book least of them all. It moves about in time, which can be a bit confusing, and the names change, which is even more confusing. I guess we're supposed to enjoy trying to figure out who the characters become as slow horses. Well, I didn't very much enjoy that. Looks like everybody loves the book but me. Such is life. Liked it, didn't love it.
My review of The Socialite’s Guide to Death and Dating by S.K. Golden
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Lies You Wrote by Brianna Labuskes It is police procedural with a FBI forensic linguist as the main character. I recommend it. my 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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