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What is on your bed side table? 2023/2024
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Nov 05, 2023 12:24PM
Rereading Long Spoon Lane
byAnne Perry a Victorian era mystery
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I am reading Murder at the Merton Library
by Andrea Penrose. Ms. Penrose has done a great job with growing the characters in this series. It keeps the series fresh and makes you want to read more. She does a great job mixing the historical/scientific facts of the era into each book start with book one though. You will miss too much of the background if you just jump in with this book.
"The artist" is nameless, houseless (NOT homeless), and only 17 when she sees Lola in the Mirror. Award-winning Aussie author Trent Dalton's wonderful new novel shows the precarious life of people living on the edges.
My review of Lola in the Mirror with a couple of the unique illustrations
Currently reading My Darling Girl and I am about halfway through.
A kidnapping mystery with a difference, we start 28 years after the event and in a different country before travelling back to discover the events leading up to the disappearance.
The Nowhere Child by Christian WhiteMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dark Angel aka Wildflower Girls is promoted as gripping and unputdownable, but I lost my grip, skimmed to the end, and put it down quickly. D.K. Hood has a lot of fans and some very high ratings, so I guess it's just me.
My review of Dark Angel
‘Being Lena Levi’ recalls the shadow that still stalks Europe seeking to take new forms and ground. If one speaks of history lessons for the young, it evokes something worthy and obligatory, like school cabbage, but here was none of that.’ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chris Hammer is a former Aussie journo who now writes great mysteries, often set in the hot, dry interior, as with Treasure & Dirt aka Opal Country. Excellent read and enjoyable audio as well. 
My review of Treasure and Dirt
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Nice review. I like these stories too but miss Vera.
˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜ wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Nice review. I li..."
Yes. She is the best!!!
I just enjoyed a return visit to Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges in southern France in Martin Walker's Dordogne Mysteries. In The Dark Vineyard, wine, food, and festivities are disturbed by sabotage and suspicious deaths. 
5★ My review of The Dark Vineyard
If you enjoy edgy fairy tales, The Lover by Silvia Moreno-Garcia might be one you'll enjoy. It's another Amazon Original Short Story.
My review of The Lover
Phrynne wrote: "My review of The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Great review. I've actually just finished book #3 in the Shetland series. I haven't read anything else by this author but am looking forward to doing so. It is certainly the character of Perez that keeps me interested in the series - and the atmospheric setting as the author really writes that well!
Next up this week is the delightful
Case of the Bleus by Korina Moss https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women by Claire Keegan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm finishing out my week with
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Just checked this out. I need a good Christmas read. Thanks.
˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜ wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of Murder by Christmas by Suzanne Young https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
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You're welcome:) It's a good one.
Starting out the week with the fun
Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Proof of the Pudding
by Rhys Bowen. It is the newest of the Royal Spyness series. She has moved the plot and grown Georgie and Darcy nicely. I am not sure how much I like the newer Georgie very much lady of the manor giving servants commands. overall well done. Set in 1936 England
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