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Here is my 4.16 rounded to 4 stars review of The Solstice by Matt Brolly:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Police Procedural / British Crime Novel
7th book in the DI Louise Blackwell series
Good characterization
Multi-layered plot
Atmospheric
I just finished
The More the Terrier. It was another fun addition to the Andy Carpenter series with another adorable cover. I'm not sure how Rosenfelt keeps this series from getting stale, since a lot of the humor, banter, etc is repeated, but he manages it somehow. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
My 5 star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 for this heartwarming and entrancing mystery
The Secrets of Flowers by Sally Page https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are 10 of your books going?
I am not alone in saying that C.S. Harris never disappoints and never misses a beat in the action, history, and human stories of England in the early 1800s. Who Slays the Wicked is terrific. 
My review of Who Slays The Wicked
An absorbing read
Sisters of Fortune by Anna Lee Huber ⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished my 83rd book
If you have any impatient little 'saplings' in your life, In Time by author/artist Marina Ruiz is a lovely children's book about the value of WAITING. Very cute.
My review of In Time withe several illustrations
I just love Ann Cleeve's Vera series, and here is #11.
The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 4.25 rounded to 4 stars review of We Solve Murders by Richard Osman:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A delightful Golden Age murder-mystery
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I enjoyed Percival Everett's reimagining of the slave Jim as James, fleeing to freedom on the mighty Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn. I think Mark Twain might have enjoyed it, too.
My review of James
I can never resist a book by Shari Low
One Midnight With You by Shari Low ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 for the first book in a new series by Lucy Connelly
An Irish Bookshop Murder https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I couldn't live on the islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, but they are fascinating. Award-winning author Peter May's trilogy about The Lewis Man is being expanded. This is the second, and I'm trying to catch up before #4 comes out!
My review of The Lewis Man
Here is my 3.44 rounded to 3 stars review of Nightmare of a Trip by Maureen Kilmer:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Horror Comedy
Funny, entertaining, predictable
Here is my 4.37 rounded to 4 stars review of A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Police procedural
Dual plot-line
Great characterization
Reminiscent of Mona Awad, minus the surrealist horror. Mysterious, moody, sapphic, emphasis on female frenemy-ship. The first 70% is all Gothic, literary, making love to demons in your dreams vibes, and I loved it. Then...
full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The opening of the book presents some interesting viewpoints on the privatization of information and research, although naive and oversimplified (and possibly downright untrue or outdated). Facts are objective, but acquiring the resources to best study or experiment...you're always working towards the information being used or useful in some way, which makes it commodification inevitable. Unsure if...
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Eerie, hauntingly beautiful prose, just like the 1st in series, but this time around, barely-there plot. You're reading this purely for "the vibez" and the humor, because...
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No romanticization to be found here, the pastoral and "simple country living" is a harsh, dog eat dog world, where even a murder can be considered an act of mercy. Themes of...
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⭐⭐⭐.5 for
The Empress of Cooke County by Elizabeth Bass Parman https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Reading Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans by James D. Hornfischer I won on GR but needed something lighter so I took off my shelf, Island Cooking: Recipes from the Caribbean by Dunstan A. Harris which has history as well as recipes.
Here is mt 4.41 rounded to 4 stars review of Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Crime Action Thriller / Police Procedural
Series Crossover with Eve Ronin series
Excellent
I had no idea that The Cold Cold Ground was set in the time and place where Adrian McKinty grew up - Belfast during The Troubles. It's the first of his Detective Sean Duffy series. I read book 6 and wanted to see where Duffy started. Glad I did.
My Review of The Cold Cold Ground
I finished my 84th book
A great start to a new Scottish cosy-mystery series
Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 3.45 rounded to 3 stars review of William by Mason Coile:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Horror / Science Fiction - AI
Here is my 2.47 rounded to 2 stars review of How to Help a Hungry Werewolf: A Novel by Charlotte Stein:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Paranormal Romance
A good, old-fashioned English 'whodunit'.
Death at the Dolphin by Gretta Mulrooney⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandysbookaday wrote: "A great start to a new Scottish cosy-mystery series Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald ⭐⭐⭐⭐...."Sounds interesting.
Fredrik Backman excels at showing what life looks like from different ages. In And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, Grandpa and grandson Noah, converse (often just in Grandpa's confused mind). A short and moving read.
My review of Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer..."
The stories of H.G. Wells no doubt inspired a lot of today's tales of the supernatural. The Door in the Wall is one example. There's this door, through which lies ...
My review of The Door in the Wall
I've moved sideways to a 'Bosch-adjacent' entry in the Bosch universe by Michael Connelly. The Poet is an especially nasty serial killer whose identity is amazingly well hidden. 
My review of The Poet
A beautiful read about the relationships between mothers and daughters
The Essential Elizabeth Stone by Jennifer Banash ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dorothy wrote: "Sandysbookaday wrote: "A great start to a new Scottish cosy-mystery series Murder in the Scottish Highlands by [author:Dee Ma..."I really enjoy this author, Dorothy. 💖📚
Here is my 3.93 rounded to 4 stars review of Schemes & Scandals by Kelley Armstrong:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Historical Mystery Novella
Holiday
Victorian Edinburgh, Scotland
Book 3.5 in the Rip Through Time Series
I finished my 85th book
Here is my 4.3 rounded to 4 stars review of Bad Liar by Tami Hoag:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Crime Thriller / Police Procedural
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