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What is on your bed side table? 2023/2024
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank by Elle CosimanoLabeled as #3.5 by Goodreads, this short story is really a prequel to the Finlay Donovan series. Readers get more insight in Vero's character and learn of the history between her and her childhood crush.
My review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm starting out the week with
Requiem for a Mouse by Miranda James. Sadly, this was a weaker entry in the series.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've recently read a couple of old-fashioned, classic, spooky tales that would be perfect for a chilly night around the fire.My brief reviews have links to where you can read them or save them for yourself.
The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
My review of The Bottle Imp
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The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
My review of The Monkey's Paw
Currently reading "Death on Board: by Anita Davison on my Kindle. Just started it so not sure whether I'd recommend it just yet but it should be a classic cozy mystery really
Ending the week with the sports themed crime short story anthology
Three Strikes - You're Dead https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Andrew McGahan was a fine Australian writer who won the 2005 Miles Franklin Award for The White Earth, which certainly meets the criteria, being of the highest literary merit and presenting Australian life in any of its phases. I do love a good historical mystery.
My review of The White Earth
I finished Murder in the Book Lover's Loft
by Ellery Adams. Book 9 in the series. I really love the characters in this series. I am wondering if this is the final book in the series. Ms. Adams seems to tied up a lot of loose ends.
Starting out July with
Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mark, the book you’re recently reading sounds really interesting! Have a great summer! Carmen 🙂
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoThis felt very different, in a good way, compared with Bardugo's Shadow and Bone trilogy though is set in the same universe. It’s not often that I read a high stakes international crime caper in the urban fantasy genre.
My review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My other book for the week is the cozy-adjacent
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I was glad to hear Aussie author and former journo Tim Ayliffe say he plans to continue his John Bailey series in and around Sydney. I just enjoyed the latest, #5, The Wrong Man. I know those parts of Sydney but luckily not the dangerous kinds of people Bailey gets mixed up with.
My review of The Wrong Man
Tune in Tomorrow by Melanie Benjamin!
It sounds macabre when a police archaelogist draws a map of an area in LA where old remains are found and titles it a City of Bones, but it makes perfect sense in Michael Connelly's 8th Harry Bosch novel. Another great read.
My review of City of Bones
I’m reading Not My Fathers Son memoir by Alan Cumming.
Winter Lost Patricia Briggs is back on track after a couple of average installments in the Mercy-verse.
My review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm kicking off the week with
Murder on Devil's Pond by Ayla Rose https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
You'll Never Find Me by Allison Brennan 4-StarsNew Series for Allison Brennan
My Review
Flashpoint by Catherine Coulter 5-StarsGreat Suspense and lots of Action
My Review
I finished Firebreak by Richard Stark. This is my last book in the Parker series. Yes, I read them back assward by mistake. I stumbled on the previous couple of books, enjoyed the series, and returned to read them in order. I advise you to read the stories in order, although this isn't an absolute rule. This book refers to a heist in Plunder Squad. A lot is going on besides the heist. There are other characters with double-cross issues, and someone is trying to get rid of Parker.
My next book was
Murder Buys a One-Way Ticket, the latest in the always funny Jaine Austen series by Laura Levine https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm finishing up the week with another great Michael Connelly book,
The Wrong Side of Goodbye https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sea Lord by Bernard Cornwell, one of his stand alone sailing themed thrillers. Excellent read.
I don’t have a bedside table, but on my dining room table, I have a whole stack of books. I can’t remember all of them at the moment but there is a book by Ruth Ware, Yellowface, Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume, and a mystery novel about cats and bookstores. (I’m at work rn, so it’s not easy for me to remember my whole stack, lolz)
Those sound like interesting book, Lucas! By the way my grandson is also named Lucas, it’s a great name!
I'm starting off the week with
Joshua Tree by Sandy Dengler. The book finds Jack Prester taking a case that should be super easy. Only he quickly gets more questions, and more danger, than he bargained for.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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