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[Linda]

Judgement Call

[Liz]

The Moth Catcher is the seventh in the Vera series, which is much more nuanced than the tv show. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Pam]

I finished Michael Connelly's Desert Star (Renee Ballard #5 / Harry Bosch #24). To continue Harry's story, I've pre-ordered Resurrection Walk (Lincoln Lawyer / Mickey Haller #7), which is due November 2023.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

[Christine]

[Barbara]

Desert Star by Michael Connelly

Retired septuagenarian Detective Harry Bosch agrees to volunteer on a cold case squad run by his former partner Detective Renee Ballard. Harry hopes to resolve a family murder that still haunts him.

Harry's still got it. 🙂 Good story. 3.5 stars

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

[Thomas]

I read The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith This is book 18 in the series and I have read the previous 17 books in the series. This series is comprised of books that you want to read with a relaxing cup of tea. There is little or no violence in these books. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ankita]

Eat, pray and love.

Currently she is talking about India and spirituality.

[CBRetriever]

Ankita wrote: "Eat, pray and love.

Currently she is talking about India and spirituality."

I thought for a moment you were talking about this book:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

it was an interesting read

[Sandysbookaday (taking a midwinter break)]

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

[Araych]

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Very amusing light "mystery" told in the first person by the 28 year-old daughter of a family of private detectives. There's sort of a mystery but it doesn't appear until half way through and it's really not much of a mystery anyway. If the book was any lighter it would float away but I liked the story and characters and since it's the first in a series I just might read another.

[Chris]

Just finished The Seven-Percent Solution written in 1974 by Nicholas Meyer. 3 star Sherlockian mystery.

[Linda]

Livid

[Christine]

[Jeff]

Just finished City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman. I gave it 3 stars. It was okay, but not great

Starting next The Stranger by Harlan Coben

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Transit of Venus, by acclaimed Australian author Shirley Hazzard, is now a modern classic that was reissued in 2021, 25 years after its first publication. Aussie sisters grow up in post-WW2 England, where their beauty is admired, but their southern hemisphere origins are disparaged. GREAT READ!
5★ My review of Transit of Venus

[PattyMacDotComma]

Hedy Lamarr was a true Hollywood bombshell, as this children's picture book by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara describes in an addition to the Little People BIG DREAMS series. She was not only beautiful, she was technologically brilliant.
5★ My review of Hedy Lamarr with several of the lovely illustrations and a drop-dead gorgeous photo of her

[Barbara]

Araych wrote: "The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Very amusing light "mystery" told in the first person by the 28 year-old daughter of a family of private detectives. There's so..."

I liked this book also. What a fun family the Spellmans are. 😁

[Christine]

I finished my 13th book

[Liz]

I love a mystery with a twist on the character. . A Murder of Crows provides that. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kirsten]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "I've been listening to Nexus..."

That's a good one! I gave it 5 stars."

It is really thrilling. Usually I don't much like cyberpunk stuff, but this is really heavy on the intrigue.

[Aditya]

Finished Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I did not imagine a book about war and insanity could be so entertaining. Easily the funniest book I have read. It has become one of my favorites, so check out my review if you have the time. 5/5

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

[Thomas]

I read Robert B. Parker's Colorblind by Reed Farrel Coleman It is a mystery /thriller, book 17 in the Jesse Stone series. I recommend reading the series in order. Both my wife and I enjoy this series. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Barbara]

The Drift by C.J. Tudor

In this departure from her usual style, thriller-writer C. J. Tudor has penned a triple 'locked room mystery' set in the midst of a viral pandemic.

Very clever book. 4 stars

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

[PattyMacDotComma]

This is a terrible, but important, story from what should be America's past. Now the nightly news is almost as bad.

Ralph Ellison wrote A Party Down at the Square in his youth, but it wasn't published until decades later.

Maybe humans should slink back into the swamp. Content warning, even for the review. (no pictures!) There are many excellent reviews of it Here's mine:
5★ My review of A Party Down at the Square including a link to a PDF of the story

[Linda]

The Shrine Of Jeffery Dahmer

[Jannelies (living between hope and fear)]

I'm currently reading The Close by Jane Casey

but I'm not as impressed as I was with The Killing Kind. There is way too much 'romance' in it for my taste. However, I will read on because its well-written and I'm curious what will happen with the real story...

[Val]

Just completed The Shadow of Perseus by Claire HeywoodClaire Heywood
Here's my 5* review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

Spare
by Prince Harry

In an unprecedented move by a high ranking royal, Prince Harry presents his side. This memoir will likely generate strong opinion especially if you're a reader from the UK or the Commonwealth. But I'm an American whose review is here ---

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

[Kirsten]

I've been listening to Stalking Jack the Ripper and reading The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes.

I finished reading The Christmas Bookshop yesterday.

[Pam]

I just finished Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice (Guido Brunetti #1) To date, I've read all of the series published thus far. I'm looking forward to her newest, So Shall You Reap (#32) due March 14th.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Freddie Mercury had a remarkable impact on today's music. The recent children's biography by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara gives us a bit of his life and the founding of the phenomenon that became Queen.
5★ My review of Freddie Mercury with several illustrations and links to some of the unforgettable music

[PattyMacDotComma]

Aussie author Michael Robotham is a favourite of mine. Bleed for Me is the fourth in his clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin series. It could easily be read as a stand-alone because he fills in the back stories so well but manages not to spoil the earlier books if you go back and read them later (as I have done).
5★ My review of Bleed for Me

[Aditya]

Finished The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. Great crime fiction with a killer ending. 4/5

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

[Val]

Just completed The Wilderness Retreat by Jennifer Moore. Here's my 4* review

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

[Val]

Just completed The Wilderness Retreat by Jennifer Moore. Here's my 4* review

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

[Chris]

I finished Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau. Written in 1867, Gaboriau was a pioneer of the detective novel and first in France to write in this genre. Started out well but became stuck in the mud midway through and plodded to the end. 2.5 stars.

[Liz]

John Sandford combines an action filled plot with great writing in Dark Angel . My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Barbara]

Jimmy Dean's Last Dance by A.K. Alliss

In this fake history novel, James Dean and Elvis Presley get into big trouble when they try to investigate Marilyn Monroe's death.

Fun thriller with drama and laughs. 3.5 stars

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

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the Soviet Sci-Fi classic (not necessarily a "Mystery" but there's plenty of Crime and Thrills):


Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Quiet American by Graham Greene

[Liz]

The Boys From Biloxi was all tell, no show. My 3.5 star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jim]

Finished reading Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery

by Agatha Christie

My Review

[Jim]

Finished reading Fatal Witness

by Robert Bryndza

My Review

[Jannelies (living between hope and fear)]

Here is my review of The Close by Jane Casey


Sadly a DNF for me: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the short story collection (not typically thought of as "crime" stories, yet there is at least one crime committed in each of the four stories)


Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Capping off a relaxing weekend, I finished the thriller


Intensity by Dean Koontz
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I started re-reading this re-telling of the Faustian tale


The Damnation Game by Clive Barker

[Thomas]

I read The Body by the Sea by Jean-Luc Bannalec It is book 8 in the series, and they are probably better read in order. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Damo]

I recently finished Daylight by David Baldacci which is the 3rd book in the Atlee Pine series. Baldacci also uses the opportunity to drag in John Puller, a crossover from one of his other series to add a little further aptitude to the action. Gave it 4 stars.

My review of - Daylight by David Baldacci

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

[Linda]

The Shrine of Jeffery Dahmer

[Araych]

Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr

Bernie Gunther #8, series best read in order. Historical mystery set in Berlin and Prague in 1941. Bernie is sent to Czechoslovakia to act as bodyguard for SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich and lands in a murder. This is another very fine entry in the series and I liked it a lot. Interestingly as per the author's notes many of the names of the Nazis and the Czech patriots are accurate, not including of course Bernie and his girlfriend who are fictional. Highly recommended.

[Barbara]

I. just finished "Her Closest Friend," by Clare Boyd. Another psycho best friend variation. Getting tired of books where I realize I don't like any of the characters, not even the ones who I'm supposed to sympathize with it.
I used to read a lot of cozies and female amateur sleuth mysteries, and tho the plots were less psychologically twisted, I liked the characters a lot more.