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What is on your bed side table? 2023/2024
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May 29, 2024 09:44PM
I've got a rare non-fiction book today, but a book written by a mystery author -
I Sleep Around by Sue Ann Jaffarian https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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My review of A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets by Kate Khavari
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pack your bags! I started out June with the fun
Murder in the Air, the newest Destination Murders anthology with eight short stories by various authors.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Darkness More Than Night is one of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series, but you can easily enjoy it as a standalone. It's also a great series.
My review of A Darkness More than Night
I finished The Gift
by Freida McFadden. It was quite good. Twisty ending but it was only 51 pages. Should have been in a book of Novellas
I enjoyed an arm chair vacation to Italy with
Murder on the Med by Nancy Cole Silverman https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Murder at an Irish Castle by Ellie Brannigan 4-StarsCozy mystery in an Irish Castle
My Review
Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet by Lucy Score 5-StarsOh. Em. Gee. This book is fantastic!
My Review
Cold Fury by Toni Anderson 5-StarsWonderful Toni Anderson, as usual.
My Review
I'm ending the week with
A Feast Most Foul by Sarah E. Burr. This is a fun series with a slight fantasy setting.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Comfort of Ghosts
.It was excellent!! Very good ending to the series. Ms. Winspear tied up all the loose ends. I don't want to say too much and give things away but this was a very well planned out to the conclusion of the series.
My review of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm kicking off the week with virtual cupcakes. I enjoyed
Fondant Fumble by Jenn McKinlay https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finlay Donovan Rolls the DiceElle Cosimano has written her novels as standalones because she alludes to events in previous novels, but she has refrained from making the latest novel completely spoiler-y. So it would be okay to delve into the series here.
My review. -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Currently reading “The History Of Wolves” ! By Emily Fridlund
Storm Child by Aussie author Michael Robotham is the latest in his always excellent Cyrus Haven series. The action is in Scotland this time. I wish this unsettling, timely story weren't so believable.
My review of Storm Child
i liked everything but the ending, which was unsatisfactory to me, both the motive for the murder (kinda weak), the identity of the murderer, and also the main character's decision after they had figured out the former two mysteries.
my full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
read this for the first time at my old head age, don't know why it took me so long. and wow, it was awful, in the archaic sense of the word, as in it inspired awe within me, overwhelmed me.
my full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wrapping up the week with
Dance Hall of the Dead, the second Joe Leaphorn mystery from Tony Hillerman. A few parts got bogged down a little for me, but overall, I enjoyed this book.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Getting Tyson by P.K. Davies.
I don't read a lot of self-published work but this makes me think I am missing out. Solid debut novel that deserved a lot more readers than it got. 3.5/5
My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David GrannIt was more interesting than I had expected given that so much was revealed in the title. Murder, mutiny, disease, and starvation revealed just how thin is the veneer of civilisation that covers man.
My review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The latest science fiction/cozy mystery hybrid from Diane Vallere is weighed more toward the science fiction side of things.
Warped on a Moon Trek by Diane Vallere https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
TIME Magazine called a song about lynching, "Strange Fruit", the song of the 20th century. How Percival Everett managed to write a satire about such a subject, The Trees, and make it laugh-out-loud funny is beyond me.
My review of The TreesShortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - no wonder.
I'm closing out this week with
Murder at an English Seance by Jessica Ellicott https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I thoroughly enjoyed the one-hour audio of Don Winslow's short story, Dietrich, narrated perfectly by award-winning actor Ed Harris. It's the Son of Sam summer in NYC, 1977, so it's hard to find spare cops to investigate the murder of a homeless man. 
My review of DietrichFree for Audible subscribers.
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