2-3-4 Challenge discussion

June 2021 ✔ ★ 📖 🎧 ➜ ☞🔪❌🔍 🎈

📚Buddy Reads

✔ Targeted (Callahan & McLain) by Kendra Elliot 🎧 (discussion June)
✔ The Night Before by Lisa Jackson (Savannah #1)
A Killer’s Wife: Desert Plains, #1 by Brittany Pressley
Never Have I Ever by Jocelyn Jackson
✔ The Night Swim – June Buddy Read
✔ Big Easy Temptation by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake

Tall, Dark & Deadly

✔ 🎧 Fatal Promise: Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller Series, Book 9

Columbo’s Challenges / New Series

Deadly Author - Toni Anderson

BodyGuard – June Topic
✔ Desperate Girls
Seduced by the Bodyguard
Female Detective – My spin
✔ Fatal Promise
Random Read
#592 Close to the Bone by Kendra Elliot

2-3-4 Challenge

✔ 🎧 Make Them Pay (Lucy Kincaid #12) by Allison Brennan

Series Catch-up
☞Hidden by Kendra Elliot - Bones Secrets #1
Chilled by Kendra Elliot- Bones Secrets #2
Buried by Kendra Elliot- Bones Secrets #3

Predator Trilogy
🔍 Focus Lucy's backstory
a. The Prey (borrowing book this week)
b. The Hunt
c. The Kill

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2. Evil Trilogy
a. Speak No Evil
b. See No Evil
c. Fear No Evil

3. Prison Break Trilogy
a. Killing Fear
b. Tempting Evil
c. Playing Dead

4.FBI Trilogy
a. Sudden Death
b. Fatal Secrets
c. Cutting Edge
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On My Kindle
☞Some Call It Love by Sarah Peis
The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice
Snow by John Banville

Work on Mystery sub-genre challenge
✔ 🎧The Cutting Edge by Jeffrey Deaver (handicapped)
🎈 The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
Not One of Us by Debbie Herbert (domestic)
🎧Ghostface Killer by M. Never (assassin)
✔ The Blackhouse by Peter May (Nordic (or Scandi) Noir)

Continuing Series
🔍Focus on Karen Rose this month. Hopefully I can catch up like I did with Lucy Kincaid.
Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose #21
Say You’re Sorry by Karen Rose #22
✔ City of Schemes (Counterfeit Lady #4 ) by Victoria Thompson

Bitter Falls: Stillhouse Lake, Book 4 (Reading Wheel Challenge)
At Her Command by Joey W. Hill

New Series
Dark Game (DI Kelly Porter #1) by Rachel Lynch
Hold Still (PI Jocelyn Rush #1) by Lisa Regan KU
✔ 🎧📖 Huntress Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff
✔ 🎧 Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal Maggie Hope #2

KU
The Last Sister by Kendra Elliot

ARCs - waiting on authors' response

NetGalley

✔ Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering due May 21📖
The Hidden by Melanie Golding due Nov 9
✔ 🎧The Abduction of Pretty Penny by Leonard Goldberg
✔ 🎧Ali Cross Like Father, Like Son by James Paterson
✔ 🎧The Grave Digger by Rebecca Bischoff

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✔ The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal due July 6 (need to post review)
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Books on my Kindle/Audible
🎧 The Liar by Nora Roberts
🎧 Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

Great titles, many I've read and thoroughly enjoyed. Have a great reading month.

Happy reading, Sharon!

I want to get back to Karen Rose's series. I'm on book 14 (I think).

So many great books on your list. Enjoy!

Very pretty organization here, I like it! The M Never book looks interesting. Enjoy!

Hope all your reading is enjoyable

Loving so much on your list, Sharon! Here’s hoping you like The Night Swim. My face to face book club read and discussed it last month. Lots to consider.

Enjoy what you end up reading!

Thanks everyone.

I finished two books that are not on my list.

The Duke and I
I started this after watching the first season of the Netflix show.

The Viscount Who Loved Me To join Michelle and Laura in their read.

I liked both books. I switched back and forth between the audio and the books. The narrator, Rosalyn Landor, got on my nerves with her male voice. It was worse in The Viscount Who Loved Me. I ended up increasing the speed to get through it quicker.

I listened to Mr. Churchill's Secretary Book 1 in the Maggie Hope Mystery series.

I'm adding book 2 to my list. I like the two books I've read so far. It is a WWII series with a lot of espionage (good for my challenges) and nervy females who get into a man's game.

I'm jumping into the next Kim Stone book. I love this series.

I finished
I like this series. I'm current with the series. I haven't found a date for another book. The last time I contacted Victoria Thompson she said she was going to write another book in the series, but she doesn't have an anticipated date yet.

I finished

📖 Ali Cross
🎧 Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son NetGalley Audio

These are two books for middle school kids. They are a spin-off of the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. The stories are pretty good. Reading / listening to them with my 9th grade granddaughter makes it an even better experience.

They remind me of the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew mysteries that I devoured at her age. The mysteries are solved by a group of middle school friends with Ali in the lead. There is a lot of one-sided political messages that I don't care for in my books, but they didn't bother me.

I rated each book as 3.5 stars, but my granddaughter rated them both 5 stars. Since they are written for her age group, I figure she wins the rating.

We requested a couple more audiobooks from Netgalley that she is interested in. If approved, there will be more summer teen reading for me.

I finished two 5 ★★★★★ books :

An Offer From a Gentleman I really like this story. This is the best of the first three in this series.

Make Them Pay We are back to the Lucy Kincaid series that I love. Great suspense, interesting backstory that I didn't expect, and more.

I finished:
Fatal Promise I love this series

The Grave Digger Audio book from Netgalley another book I listen to with my granddaughter.

Finally finished
The Night Before

I finished listening 🎧
The Abduction of Pretty Penny This series started out a little slow when I started it a few years ago, but it has improved with the last two books, even though the middle still drags. At this point I will continue, especially now that Netgalley shares the audio.

I finished a book not on my list
Princess Elizabeth's Spy

This is the second book in the Maggie Hope series. I came to the series, with the last book. Luckily the setting and many players changed with the Hollywood Spy making it feel like a standalone.
I am enjoying going back to the beginning and finding out how Maggie got into this business, from Boston, to Britain and back again.

I need to do some research. I don't remember these event with Princess Elizabeth in The Crown.

I will continue the series.

I finished
Desperate Girls

My first completed reading wheel this year.

I picked this because it was in my audible library for a little over a year. When I started listening, it sounded familiar. As the story went on, I remembered enough that I looked it up. I read the arc several years ago. I'm not sure when I bought the audio. It must have been a two for one or some big sale. I liked the audio better than the book. Yeah for the Columbo challenge.

I finished

Big Easy Temptation

Really enjoyed this one.

I finished:

The Cutting Edge

I haven't read this series in a few years. I had to watch the movie to refresh my memory on some of the main players.

The Lincoln Rhyme series is on my list to read (some day). I did read the first book a couple of years ago and thought it was great. How do you like the series overall?

Robin I love this series. I found it after the movie (I'm a Denzel Washington fan) then my husband and I started reading the series. It is a great study of a man who was ready to end his life, then found, even as a paraplegic, that he had something to offer.

Like any series there are a few books that aren't as good as the others, but overall it is a great series. The mysteries are complex, and the characters are very interesting.

I finished:
The Blackhouse

I found this book to complete the Nordic (Scandi) Noir. Honestly, I didn't have a clue what to expect from this genre. The Blackhouse is an interesting story an unexpected with twist at the end. The rural Scottish setting (Isle of Lewis) descriptions gives a tremendous sense of place. Loved it.

Thanks, Sharon. I’ve added some in this genre to my shelf because I’ve enjoyed a few of the Netflix series. I’ve got this book series but haven’t started.

Sharon wrote: "Robin I love this series. I found it after the movie (I'm a Denzel Washington fan) then my husband and I started reading the series. It is a great study of a man who was ready to end his life, then..."

Thanks Sharon. I'm going to have to pull out the second book to read soon. It fits a couple of challenges that I'm working on.

I finished:
Huntress Moon

Thanks a lot Jonetta. Now I'm hooked on another series. 😊🤑💸

I knew it!

I finished:

The Night Swim