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The Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan DoyleI liked it well enough
Read full review at link below
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Just finished Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just started
The Good Samaritan by John Marrs after finishing
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Popular Aussie news journalist (among other things) Tony Jones has successfully added thriller writer to his "among other things" with a great read, The Twentieth Man. It's based on true Aussie events, but there's plenty of artistic licence making for an exciting novel. Loved it!
4.5★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Mick Herron”s London Rules, his latest visit to the Slow Horses of Slough House. Still an entertaining bunch of demoted (“demented”?) spooks.
4★ My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detective before to enjoy this clever whodunit!
4★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detective before to enjoy this c..."I read all of the Christie novels when I was fifteen or so from my mom's collection and loved them all. Maybe I need to read them all again now at age 50!
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detective before to enjoy this c..."I read all of the Christie novels when I was fifteen or so from my mom's collection and loved them all. Maybe I need to read them all again now at age 50!
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detective before to enjoy this c..."I read all of the Christie novels when I was fifteen or so from my mom's collection and loved them all. Maybe I need to read them all again now at age 50!
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detective before to enjoy this c..."I read all of the Christie novels when I was fifteen or so from my mom's collection and loved them all. Maybe I need to read them all again now at age 50!
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detective before to enjoy this c..."I read all of the Christie novels when I was fifteen or so from my mom's collection and loved them all. Maybe I need to read them all again now at age 50!
Erich wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little Belgian detecti..."I am reading one a month in chronological order. I have just started The Mystery of the Blue Train.
Esther wrote: "Erich wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read a classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You don't need to have met the little B...I am reading one a month in chronological order. I have just started The Mystery of the Blue Train. "
You're going to be going for a while, Esther! I will read some more, but probably not regularly.
You might like to check the similarly named, Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers Group's "Focus on Agatha Christie" discussions.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Meanwhile, not Agatha, but Tana.I'm enjoying Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series. The Likeness is #2, in which Detective Cassie Maddox goes undercover.
4★ Link to my review
Conan Doyle reviews ofThe Speckled Band & The Dancing Men
Both were great
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Reviews ofThe Crooked Man
The Solitary Cyclist
The Naval Treaty
These stories never fail to sweep me away to another time
See reviews here
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Was totally excited to be the opening blog for the promotional tour for
Letterbox by P.A.Davies. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my blog sandysbookaday.wordpress.com https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Get Real
is a by-the-numbers heist story written by the late Donald Westlake, an author who was known for being able to deliver so much more. It's not a bad book, just an unremarkable one. I'll read an earlier installment in the series at some point in the future, and I hope to find the qualities that prompted all the praise, because I didn't find them here. Three-ish stars.Read the full review here.
What a wonderful, convoluted mystery, and I enjoyed all seven!The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 5★ by Stuart Turton
5★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Grimswell CurseSam Siciliano
This would have been 5 stars if it had not gotten so blasted repetitive: We know Henry wants and loves his Michele, we know Rose is a large woman, we know Dartmoor is cold and windy. Aside from those and a few other annoyances of a similar nature, this was a good story and I would recommend it.
See full review here, its at the bottom
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Compelling true-crime. If it weren't so well-documented, it would be hard to believe.Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann reads like a novel with an outrageous plot that will outrage YOU!
5★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Recently read booksDown a Dark Road My review, 4/5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two Kinds of Truth My review 4.5/5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Less Than A Treason My review 4/5
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
expects you to really want to understand con men and what they do at the office every day. If you want that, it's an excellent primer on how and why cons work. It's also a big, fat injection of empathy for the suckers, who at bottom are guilty of little more than being human. Reading this book may not stop you from getting taken, but at least you'll understand why you let it happen. Four stars.Read the full review here.
Thomas wrote: "Recently read booksDown a Dark Road My review, 4/5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two Kinds of Truth My ..."
Thomas, your review link for Less Than A Treason goes to the book page instead.
A second look with the benefit of hindsight. Talented Aussie author Aoife Clifford has written her second book Second Sight. Lots of seconds there, but it's a first-rate read!
4.5★ Link to my review
I am rereading Agatha Christie in published order. Many of them are rereads.This month was The Seven Dials Mystery
. The ending was 'told' rather than shown and the 'why' wasn't completely answered but I still found this to be my favourite so far.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Italian Secretary review: Caleb CarrDidn't care for this one much, didn't finish it
The Abbey Grange review: Arthur Conan Doyle
One of my favorites
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PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Thomas wrote: "Recently read booksDown a Dark Road My review, 4/5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
[book:Two Kinds of Trut..."
Patty, thanks, see
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hello people!!I'm new here. I'm a brazilian writer, four published books (novel, poetry and short stories), and you can know more about me here: leilakruger.com.
Well, I'd like to share with you my short story "A Night In The Tavern - a dark tale of love, gred and punishment". It is a mystery, gothic tale.
It is very cheap at Amazon, only $ 1.99.
Here is the link at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Tavern-g...
Here's the synopsis:
"We are precisely in the year 1852, in a rather lugubrious alley whose only point of light and life is a tavern well known to all the bohemians in the region. Its owner is a Gaul, a man with a prominent red beard, and his face has an unfriendly way." A man with a broken heart drinks Absinthe in a dark place in the night... He just lost his love and also his friend.
Then, the wrecked man finds a strange friend who makes him an odd offer, which will change completely his whole life and death.
What would you give to get everything you want?"
I thank you very much,
Leila Krüger
leilakruger.com
Finished the last one in the series, A Dark and Twisted Tide
.Didn't love it as much as
. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy wrote: "Quite a ride.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I loved your review, and I just requested a DRC from Sourcebooks. Knock wood.
Donna wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Quite a ride.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I loved your review, and I just requested a DRC from Sour..."
Just saw this, Donna. Forgive my tardy ways! I sure hope you enjoy it.
Just finished
. Another read that put my poor brain through the wringer from the author of "Brighton".https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just read The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy. New mothers, a baby abducted, a mystery many will enjoy.
3.5★ My review
Michael Wood's newest Matilda Darke book, The Hangman’s Hold
, is coming out August 28. I was fortunate to read it as an ARC from Net Galley. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
She writes a good story, does Aussie author Liane Moriarty. I just enjoyed The Husband's Secret.
4.5★ My review
Escape Velocity
is a gentle tale of corporate dysfunction running head-on into the indignation of one very determined young woman who aims to stop it by fair means or foul. If only she'd used more foul means -- the result may have be livelier and more compelling. Still, it's not a bad experience, and if its particulars engage you, you'll find it a quick, low-calorie read. Three stars.Read the full review here.
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan is a mystery with a catchy title, but it isn't really about books.
3.5★ Link to my review
Finished my first Stuart MacBrideLogan MacRae book. It won't be my last! My review for Cold Granite
:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Big Little Lies this is actually a 'murder' mystery covered in a fun chicklit coating. 4 starshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Line That Held UsJust finished this and while I found the first third powerfully compelling and suspenseful, the rest devolved into a far-fetched mess. I did post a review, but it contained spoilers( if anyone wants to save him/herself the pain).
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