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Little Elvises
is a comedy of criminal manners wrapped in the skin of a dark-side detective story. If you're looking for wry rather than wacky or mild grit rather than lip gloss, this may be the ticket for you. Don't take any of it too seriously -- the characters don't -- and you may have some quick, kicky fun. Four stars.Read the full review here.
I enjoyed most of those Junior Bender books.
The Killing Kind
is the literary analog to stock footage. That said, the author cut the clips together really well, producing a killer-killing-killers story that's highly familiar but still entertaining for the time it takes to read it. Empty calories? Sure, but they go down easy. Two and a half stars rounded up to three.Read the full review here.
Just finished
Her Final Hour by Carla Kovach. 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/...Starting
The Hangman’s Hold by Michael Wood
Reviews of:The Valley Of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Was just to -Let's go to America- for my taste, much like A Study In Scarlet . I suppose I just prefer my Holmes in the fog shrouded London streets heavily misted Moors or in a carriage down the lane
The Great Ruby Robbery by Grant Allen: The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes
This was fun. Didn't figure who did it till the end
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Just finished Relief Map which starts off with a fairly laid back pace but built a lot of tension and suspense. Totally worth the experience.
Finished another of Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles books, The Silent Girl
. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
! I gave myself a month but managed it in 18 Days.Review:
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I read the first of a thriller series, Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man, the one you need to find when you can’t get help anywhere.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was a NetGalley book, coming out in mid-October '18: In Harm's Way
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I've been a fan of John Lescroart's Dismas Hardy series for quite a while. Thanks to NetGalley, I just read The Rule of Law
. Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
is a fast-reading memoir featuring a largely no-nonsense cop who has an interesting tale to tell and some scores to settle along the way. The author, for all his tough-guy growling, is good company for just over 300 pages. That it’s a familiar story in its outlines doesn’t make it any less entertaining; you’ll get enough inside-cop and inside-crook stuff to feed your true-crime jones and then some. Four stars.Because I wrote this review for Criminal Element, I can't show it all here. Go here to read the full review and a lot of other good stuff, too.
The Fallen Architect
is an atmospheric novel featuring an intriguing mystery, a sympathetic lead (who can also draw and paint), and a (literally) theatrical supporting cast, all set effectively in a colorful milieu. If this sounds good to you, read it now before it makes the easy leap to Masterpiece Mystery or an Alienist-like prestige production on TNT or Netflix. Four drafting pencils.Because I wrote this review for Criminal Element, I can't show it all here. Go here to read the full review and a lot of other good stuff, too.
I can't believe I'd never read Rebecca! I thought, well, 80 years old, classic, guess I SHOULD read it. Silly me for waiting. Daphne du Maurier nailed it!
5★ Link to my review (no spoilers)
Finished D.D. Warren #6 by Lisa Gardner, Catch Me.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I had this on hold at the public library for some time then spotted a copy on the 7-day shelf last week, so I snatched it up! My review for Linda Castillo's A Gathering of Secrets
: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I enjoyed Adrian Hyland's first novel, Moonlight Downs - intrigue in the outback with the feisty half-Aboriginal, half-white Emily Tempest. I'm a fan!
4.5★ Link to my review
Ah, another good Aussie debut! Love seeing such good new talent. In The Nowhere Child by Christian White, Aussie Kim is told - surprise! - you're actually American Sandy!
4.5★ Link to my review
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Counterfeiters Are Hijacking the Global Economy
is, despite its various shortcomings, a good entry-level view of counterfeiting, smuggling, money laundering and tax evasion. If you've been paying attention to the subject, you'll still learn something; if you haven't, you'll probably be shocked and appalled. In any event, you'll be more likely to see beyond the too-good-to-be-true bargain. Three $25 "Seiko" watches.Read the full review here.
Aussie author Caroline Overington is an award-winning investigative journalist, so I knew I'd enjoy her story of a celebrity's missing toddler. The Ones You Trust reveals the ins and outs of publicity vs police.
4★Link to my review
Angela Marsons! Kim Stone! Love this series! Just finished Fatal Promise
. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Evan Smoak is still answering his phone and asking the desperate callers "Do you need my help?" Well, duh! Of course, that's why were given the secret number of The Nowhere Man! This is #2 in Gregg Hurwitz's action-packed Orphan X series.
4★ My review
This was awesome guys! Can’t wait for more of her stuff to be translated!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "In her first-ever book, published almost a century ago, Agatha Christie introduced one of the world's best-loved characters, the inimitable M. Hercule Poirot with his very active 'l..."This is a superb first novel by the great Agatha. Poirot is already fully formed with all his appealing quirks, and Agatha's use of 'what she knows' her knowledge about poisons gained from her work in a pharmacy is awesome. Note the ending. Agatha first had Poirot give the denouement in an open court but this was changed on her publisher's advice. Here for the first time Poirot gathers the suspects together to unveil the solution of the puzzle to them. The first of many times.
Its been a while since I have done a review so here are two. :)The Coven Murders {Inspector Sheehan Mysteries 3}
Brian O'Hare
This one got me right from the beginning. A rather gruesome {well to me anyway} murder. Kept my interest even though it was a tad much for me, I seem to like my crime a bit more lighthearted
Murder On The Orient Express
Agatha Christie
I won't lie about this, if it had not been narrated by that particular person I doubt I would have enjoyed it at all. As it is though I really enjoyed it.
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Just finished
Broken Ground by Val McDermid. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
We know there is A Rule Against Murder, but one takes place anyway in Louise Penny's picturesque Quebec. I am not alone in loving Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Penny's delicious, atmospheric writing. (aka The Murder Stone)
4.5★ Link to my review
Elizabethan history and mystery is such good, page-turning fun in A Famine of Horses, the first in a series by P.F. Chisholm. Looking forward to some more buckling of swashes!
5★ Link to my review of A Famine of HorsesThen to contemporary Queensland and a prize-winning debut novel The Yellow House by talented young Aussie author Emily O'Grady. She's one to watch.
3.5★ Link to my review of The Yellow House
Ghost Busting Mystery by Daisy Pettles is corny humour and a quick, light "detective" story.
3★ Link to my review with several quirky quotes
Gregg Hurwitz's Hellbent is the third in the Orphan X (Nowhere Man) series. This is my favourite so far.
4.5★ Link to my review
I read Aussie author Sara Foster's mystery, All That is Lost Between Us, because it's a favourite of many readers, but I was disappointed.
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I read Wyntertide a while ago but just got round to posting my review.It is a fantasy but there is definitely something mysterious going on.
It was a 5 stars for me and I am so looking forward to the final book in the trilogy.
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I am beginning
Shatter the Night by Emily Littlejohn after finishing
The Girls in the Lake by Helen Phifer. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
About to start
Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison after finishing the very good
The Daughter's Promise by Sarah Clutton. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage
I have just started listening to
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell after finishing the exciting thriller
Chasing the Dead by Tim Weaver. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
About to start
The Stranger in Our Bed by Samantha Lee Howe after finishing the very ordinary
The Crossing by Matt Brolly. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com
Have started
A Hope For Emily: An absolutely heartbreaking and gripping emotional page turner by Kate Hewitt after finishing the very creepy 5 star
The Memory Wood by debut author Sam Lloyd. My five star spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Next up is
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan after finishing
A Hope For Emily: An absolutely heartbreaking and gripping emotional page turner by Kate Hewitt https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...And
The Guest List by Lucy Foley https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
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