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Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency ― THE WOLF WHO CRIED BOY is a twist with an environmental bent on the folk tale of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. I like this version by Bali Rai better.
My review of The Wolf Who Cried Boy with several illustrations
It Waits in the Woods is reason enough not to venture down that way. Josh Malerman has added his creepy short story to Amazon's Creature Feature Collection.
My review of It Waits in the Woods
Vanished and Wind Through the Keyhole
Finished The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust
My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/5846145468
The Soulmate by Sally HepworthThis was my first novel by Sally Hepworth. This was well written but domestic thrillers might not be for me.
My overdue review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wolf Pack
by C.J. BoxIn this addition to the 'Joe Pickett' series, the Wyoming game warden is after lawbreakers who seem to think they're invulnerable.
Lots of action in this thriller. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Now about halfway through THE TRAIL TO BUDDHA'S MIRROR by Don Winslow. This is the second novel in his Neal Carey mystery series that was originally printed in the the early 90s. I am picking up each of the 30th anniversary hardcover reprints as they are released this year.
The Mystery Guest
, the second in The Maid series, is the perfect mix of mystery and character. My five star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Sign of Four Spirits
by Vicki DelanyIn this addition to the 'Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries', bookstore manager/amateur sleuth Gemma Doyle investigates murder at a séance.
Good cozy mystery. 3 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Night Circus and The Boys From Biloxi
Still available on NetGalley for a couple of days is another Amazon Original Story, A Night at the Tropicana by Chanel Cleeton. Short romance, Miami and Cuba, 1939 and 1969.
My review of A Night at the Tropicana
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My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/5886964314"
"I tend to stay well clear of Booker short list nominees. My reason for doing so is I find the books nominated strive too hard to be different or quirky ..."
that's exactly what I look for in those books ... I get so tired of same old same old and anything different or quirky grabs my attention quickly and tends to hold it. I loved The Trees -- how better to tell such a horrific story than by using a horror story format? And my thinking on that book's silliness was that the underlying truths of the story are so gut-wrenchingly sad that if you don't laugh over what he's written, you'll just cry.
Our Goodreads group Indian readers has chosen Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie as this months group read. I had read this long back in school.Reading another Christie after ages.
The Tourist
was a decent but not overly exciting spy thriller. My three star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished Deadly Tides by Mary Keliikoa
A slow burner with a fast paced ending: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Silesian Station
by David DowningJohn Russell #3 (not all books in the series are chronological) I'm reading the series in order. It's now 1939 in Berlin and Russell is being pulled in several directions by events leading to WWII. He is now forced into some amateur spycraft. No more spoilers. I think this is the best of the series so far -- lots of suspense and details about Berlin life at that time. 4 stars.
Now starting THE ARMS MAKER OF BERLIN, a 2009 stand alone mystery novel by Dan Fesperman.I read three other novels by Fesperman earlier this year and thought they were excellent. This one has also started out well and I hope to continue sampling his works.
Those We Thought We KnewI
by David JoyA North Carolina town is roiled by racial tension when a visiting Black co-ed from Atlanta focuses light on past injustices to African-Americans. The book morphs into a mystery thriller.
Very good story. 4 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I recently finished
The Bullet That Missed by Richard OsmanMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Winter's End by Paige Shelton It is set in the fictional Alaskan town of Benedict. It is book 4 in the series and I recommend reading the series in order. My 3.5 star rounded up review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Fans of police procedurals will really enjoy Bad Blood
. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are 3 of your books going?
I recently finished
Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich. Love these classic noir crime novels and Woolrich was one of the best. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Watchmaker’s Hand
by Jeffery DeaverIn this addition to the 'Lincoln Rhyme' series, the quadriplegic forensic expert is on the trail of an old enemy, the devious deadly Watchmaker.
Action packed thriller. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Red Sonja: She-Devil With a Sword Vol. 1 (Red Sonja: She-Devil With a Sword
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Adventure
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
On the Edge by Ilona AndrewsI've been on a long Ilona Andrews reading spell. I've
had to dig deep into their bookshelves to find more books. This is the beginning of The Edge series, and it had been published around the same time as their first Kate Daniels novel.
My Review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
American Vampire, Vol. 5
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Graphic novel
Fantastic story
Great characters
Review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Xena: Warrior Princess Omnibus Volume 1
⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Xena what else.
Inspired from the TV series.
Adventure galore.
Xena in a negative role in this book.
Great art and story.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Outback by Aussie author Patricia Wolf, whose exciting thriller is about a hot, dry part of the world that she knows well but that these unfortunate tourists didn't.
My review of Outback
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I plan on forging ahead in the Tiptree collection and the McMahon, then finishing the other two over the next month or so.
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