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Rounding out my week with Poison Pen by Sheila Rowe https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

In the Market for Murder by T.E. Kinsey finds amateur sleuths Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Armstrong, investigating several local crimes.
3.5~4★ My review of In the Market for Murder

Hi, Sandy, I just finished reading The Lost Children by Michael Woods.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I can't wait to read his next Matilda Darke ...

Have started rereading Queen Defiant by Anne O'Brien

I've just finished reading The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway #14) by Elly Griffiths
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Mary Higgins Clark's - All By Myself, Alone. Another or two on a luxury ship.

Death of The Mantis

Finished reading Listen To Me

by Tess Gerritsen

My Review

I finished Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patternon. I am not much of a James Patterson fan but the idea of a book by Dolly Parton was intriguing. Surprising it was quite good. Quick read.

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "In the Market for Murder by T.E. Kinsey finds amateur sleuths Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Armstrong, investigating several local crimes.
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I enjoy this series. Fun and good to snapshot in time

Another mystery lite from the prolific Georgette Heyer -
The Unknown Ajax

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4852947559

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

I hadn't originally intended to read this since it's off of the beaten track for me. But I ended up doing so because I had I received an invitation from the publisher. This was very good, and I need to prioritize more sci-fi thrillers.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4841878104

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Alice wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "In the Market for Murder by T.E. Kinsey finds amateur sleuths Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Armstrong, investigating several local crimes.
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I enjoy this series. Fun and good to snapshot in time"

It is. It's before the two World Wars, but you can imagine them coming up.

I love it when a favourite author is convinced to continue a story. Lying Beside You is celebrated Aussie mystery writer Michael Robotham's excellent addition to the Cyrus Haven (& Evie Cormac) series. But you can pick it up and enjoy the suspense and action straight away, because Robotham will fill you in.
5★ My review of Lying Beside You

I have just finished all her fault by andrea mara! WOW

The Wolves Of The Calla

My review of Dark Objects by Simon Toyne

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now started:

After the rift series book 4 The Temple of Forgotten Secrets byC.J. Archer

After the rift series book 5 The Prison of Buried Hopes byC.J. Archer

Just finished:

I always enjoy the investigative exploits of the self-made computer-nerd 'family' known as the Monkeewrench crew. Off the Grid by P.J. Tracy has Native Americans, terrorists, and kidnappers. Loved it!
4.5★ My review of Off the Grid

Finished reading Darkness Falls

by Robert Bryndza

My Review

Hoping to finish Dead or Alive today by Tom Clancy

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. Braindead action movie that preaches tolerance in corny, condescending ways. 2/5


https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Over My Dead Body and Perfect Marriage

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - a promising debut of a septuagenerian cold cases investigation Club seeking an active killer

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4868919839

Currently reading the final book of this fantastic series The Return of Absent Souls C.J. Archer

Catching up from being on vacation last week:

Movieland by Lee Goldberg https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Drop by Michael Connelly https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Pajama Frame by Diane Vallere https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm working on NETWORK EFFECT after reading MASTER OF DJINN (3.5 stars), a couple of short stories, and the WAR THAT MADE AMERICA by Fred Anderson; it's an excellent history of the French and Indian War (1754-1761). I'll be starting BREAKING THE BACKCOUNTRY this week (a history of the French and Indian War on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania).

Just finished:

Now started:

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them.


Neil Bradbury wrote an interesting blend of hard science and accounts of poisoners from the 19th through 21st centuries and sprinkled them with allusions to writers such as Agatha Christie.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4855383873

I'm now reading The Last Flight by Julie Clark. It is my first from this Author but I heard many great things about this one so I'm excited.

Starting off the week with Murder Through the English Post by Jessica Ellicott https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I made a new friend in my neighbrohood who also enjoys mysteries, and has about as many books as I have, so I've been back to reading some of the series I gave up earlier when I could not find the next book.
So far I finished Spinsters in Jeopardy(Roderick Alleyn #17) and Death of a Fool(Roderick Alleyn #19), both by Ngaio Marsh, and have the next 3 books in that series on my TBR stack. Inspector Alleyn is one of those pleasant, gentlemanly inspectors, and I generally like the books in this series. Death of a Fool was particularly good, I thought.
I finished one of my own PD James books, The Murder Room, #12 in the Adam Balgliesh series. I liked this one, but I might have liked it more if PD James was the sort of author who could do absorbing tangents. If Clive Cussler had written this story we'd have gotten all sorts of interesting real-life details about the real life murders that the Murder Room in the museum showcased. Oh well. James is a solid, classic author, well worth reading, and the story was good.
A couple weeks ago I finished almost all of the Raymond Chandler books and most of Dashiell Hammett's books. None of those really stick out as amazing, but The Long Goodbye and Playback were probably my favorites from Chandler, at least out of that binge. I still liked The Lady in the Lake and The Little Sister best overall from Chandler. I think my favorite Hammett was The Dain Curse. This is book #2, sequel to The Red Harvest, and probably does benefit from reading them in order, though the plots seem to stand alone well enough.
I've been working my way through Mary Stewart's thrillers. I read most of her King Arthur books as a kid, and loved them, but never knew she wrote thrillers too. So far this month I have read Wildfire at Midnight, Madam, Will You Talk?, and My Brother Michael. I still like her Arthurian Saga best, but so far all her books are pretty good.
This week I have been reading Josephine Tey's Alan Grant series. I've finished books 1 and 2, The Man in the Queue and A Shilling for Candles. Grant is another professional, pleasant inspector. He's a nice contrast to the other series I have been reading in this week, the Inspector Morse books by Colin Dexter. I only have a couple books left to read to be done with Morse, but he is such an asshole that I tend to put them off. I found the audiobooks though, in the local library's online collection, so I am listening to them while crocheting. I finished Last Seen Wearing, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn, and The Secret of Annexe 3, and am a third of the way through The Wench is Dead, in which Morse's sour disposition has landed him in hospital for a while.
Other crime/thriller/mystery books I've read in the pasr couple weeks: The Ice House, by Minette Walters, Dead Sleeping Shaman, by Elizabeth Buzzelli, L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy, and It's Different Abroad, by Henry Calvin.

I'll be surprised if this one doesn't win some more awards. Auē, by Becky Manawatu is centred around a contemporary Maori family. Loved it!
5★ My review

My other new release for the week was a fun Mint Chocolate Murder by Meri Allen. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

Was getting bored with thrillers, read something different for a change. Brilliant, beautiful, layered witty writing about illicit love and faith. One of the best books I have read and probably one of the best ever books written. I hope my recommendation/ review can convince at least one of you to give it a chance. 5/5

My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review of The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finishing out the week and month with An Almost Purrfect Murder by Jacqueline Vick https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Where The Crawdads sing

Just finished The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher. Fisher is as unique as his crime novel. I stumbled across the Library of Congress Crime Classics while deciding if I wanted to read Fisher's book.
Where can I pass on this resource? Where else but Good Reads.

My review of The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Slow Horses by Mick Herron


Still loved a second reading of this clever satire of spies and work ambitions.

My review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Another Mick Herron enthusiast here!

What's not to like in a Mick Herron novella? You don't know have to know Herron's work to enjoy poor old 'retired' spook John Bachelor's dilemma in The Catch.
4.5★ My review

Three Days Missing

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, who had received the Nobel Prize in Literature shortly after this book's publication.

This nonfiction is a compilation of oral histories documenting momentous periods in the 20th century history of the USSR and of the aftermath of its dissolution in 1991. Plenty of criminal acts but without the justice delivered in crime fiction.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3221142892