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What is on your bed side table? 2023/2024
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Jun 20, 2023 12:28PM
Linda, would you be interested in joining the discussion of Highway of Tears (the True Crime selection for June 2023)?
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Getting an early start on next week's release with
Fatal Fudge Swirl by Meri Allen https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished The Moving Finger an oldie but goodie - almost a comfort read.Don't think there would be too many readers on the planet who haven't delved into a Christie at some stage. Almost consider them timeless reads.
Also have Foucault's Pendulum which I've only just started - it's a mystery. Rated on the Boxall's 1000 books to read before you die list
started Murder at the Bookstore back in like April but left it in my aunts while I was visiting and only getting it back this weekend! Just finished Don't Let Go
Pam I always look at the remarks shown on these discussions but I tend to get picked on so I normally don't join. I will say that this resonates with me because one branch of my family are natives, not myself but my cousins.
It's a wild ride on the coattails of ghosts and ghouls, swept along by Sri Lankan winds, in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by 2022 Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka. More than half of my review is quotes, so there's more of his writing than mine. 😊 
5★ My review of The Seven Moons...
I am reading Crimson Angel
by Barbara Hambly. Set in 1838 New Orleans and Haiti. Book 13 in the Benjamin January series. One of my favorite series. Very well written. Start with book one Free Man of Color.
Reading “Never Smile at Strangers by Jennifer Jaynes!
Michael Trant brings rural and outback Western Australia to life again with his latest thriller No Trace. Terrific audio - loved it!(
My review of No TraceThe audio edition hasn't been added to Goodreads yet, but it's out there.
The Book of Lost Friends (physical)The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (audio)
All He has Left (ebook)
Barren Grounds by AA B. Michael Radburn was a good read but didn't grab me as much as his other books, only because I didn't believe the ending, BUT I reckon it could be made into a terrific film or TV series. It has all the right elements.
My review of Barren Grounds
My review of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
In the 1920s, London's dance halls, with their young 'hostesses', were the
Shrines of Gaiety
that Kate Atkinson showcases here. Crime, bent cops, girls as playthings to be cast aside. What a story.
My review of Shrines of Gaiety
I'm starting out July with
The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I love C.S. Harris's mastery of history and mystery. I'm trying to stretch the series, and have just read the excellent
Why Kings Confess
My review of Why Kings Confess
A Very English Murder is the first in the light-hearted, historical mystery series by Verity Bright, a husband and wife team. Lady Swift is young, adventurous, and good fun.
My review of A Very English Murder
I am reading one of my favorite cozy seriesMurder on the Poet's Walk
by Ellery Adams. I have read the books in the series. I was Storyton was a real place I would definitely go there.
My review of Murder at a London Finishing School by Jessica Ellicott
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Cphe wrote: "Just finished The Moving Finger an oldie but goodie - almost a comfort read.Don't think there would be too many readers on the planet who haven't delved into a Christie at some stage..."
I read that back in the latter '80s or early '90s a good unique read, I hope you enjoy it.
Next up for me this week is the stand alone thriller
Gone but Not Forgotten by C. Michele Dorsey https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Garry Disher is a favourite Aussie author whose offbeat Wyatt series features the crook. In Deathdeal, while avoiding his main enemies in Melbourne and Sydney, Wyatt is summoned to Queensland to pull off a job. I reckon you could read these out of order. 
My review of Deathdeal
Starting the week with a Christmas themed short story -
The Ghost of Christmas Granny by Sue Ann Jaffarian https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sci-fi, mystery. Void by Veronica Roth is an entertaining short story about the murder of a tourist in space. 
My review of Void
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