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Sep 26, 2022 11:43AM
I read An Old, Cold Grave by Iona Whishaw It is a Canadian cozy mystery, set in rural British Columbia. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Nancy wrote: "Jannelies wrote: "Here is my review of American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World by Gregg Olsen[bookcover:Ameri..."
It was the Tylenol murders in Chicago in 1982. Although this may have added to it.
Fifty-Four Pigs
by Philipp SchottThis first 'Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery' is set in a frosty Canadian town in mid-winter. It features murder, theft, and a good sniffer dog.
Entertaining cozy mystery. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
by Ed GormanSam McCain #6, set in 1962. The body of young woman is found in a wealthy man's house and McCain is tasked to solve the mystery. This is one of the better entries in the series -- I liked it quite a bit.
David Rosenfelt continues to entertain. Santa’s Little Yelpers
is his latest. Four stars. My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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After The Family Game
it’s apparent that Catherine Steadman and I are not a good fit. My two star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are 2 of your books going?
Blood & Ink by Brett Adams ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Outfoxed
by David RosenfeltAndy Carpenter #14. Andy's client, already in jail, escapes and now his wife is dead. Luckily he has a good lawyer. This is one of Rosenfelt's better efforts, I liked it a lot.
Finished All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I listened to the Butcher and The Wren
Just a three star for me. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Just a three star for me. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I thought about buying this book but passed. Sounds like I made the right decision.
Finished an enjoyable cozy mystery ICED by Carol Higgins Clark
I've been reading some James Joyce stories and finding them easy to read, entertaining and thought-provoking. You don't need to be some kind of literary critic to enjoy them, although goodness knows they have been extensively studied (not by me 😊).Araby is about a tongue-tied young boy's crush on his friend's sister. Delightful and bittersweet.
5★ My review of Araby
Another, longer James Joyce story is The Dead which takes place during Christmas/New Year's festivities in the early 1900s. Thought-provoking ending.
5★ My review of The Dead
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I finished the Australian classic
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading perhaps the most revered war novel ever
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
I finished Jack Frost by Diane Capri
Here is my three star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I listened to The Senile Squad
Just ok. My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Widowmaker
by Hannah MorrisseyWhen a mysterious key draws a photographer back to her home town in Michigan, she gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Good thriller. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
False Value
by Ben AaronovitchRivers of London #8, series probably should be read in order or at least read #1 first. In this one Peter Grant is tasked to investigate a high-tech company and it's computer genius owner. Another wonderful entry in the series, 4.5 stars.
Now starting CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT by Robert Goddard, one of his older stand-alone thriller novels published back in 1998.
I read The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable It is a pleasant historical fiction book set in WWII Rome. The OSS has an office of Morale Operations, tasked with distributing black propaganda in occupied Europe. This book is loosely based on a real person who worked in that office. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished the first book in the urban fantasy Rivers of London series (which also contains police procedural elements) 
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading something creepy for October
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
4/5 stars
Things go terribly wrong, thanks to Steve.
Read my review linked below.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished Blackwater Falls
. An interesting start to a new series. My 3.5 star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wilma Mankiller
was some woman! Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara picked a remarkable Cherokee woman who rose from 'dirt-poor' to represent her Nation. It's another excellent addition to the Little People BIG DREAMS collection. I'm so glad I met her in this little book.
5★ My review of Wilma Mankiller with a few illustrations
Why would a nurse who is highly sought-after by an attentive, handsome, wealthy doctor ask to Make Me Disappear? This is Jessica Payne's debut thriller, and I think many thriller readers will enjoy it.
3★ My review of Make Me Disappear
Finished The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'FarrellMy Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/5004031835
Little Souls
by Sandra DallasDuring the Spanish Flu pandemic, which coincided with WWI, two sisters in Denver experience life-changing events.
Good story. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Anybody looking for a change from a mystery. Whiskey When We’re Dry is a great western.
My five star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Riley Sager's Survive the Night and loved it! [5*s] I only have one more of his books to read; then I'll be waiting for The Only One Left, which is due out next summer.
Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship by Willie Nelson ⭐⭐⭐⭐.6 https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are 2 of your books going?
Cutthroat Dogs
by Loren D. EstlemanDetroit private detective Amos Walker looks into the case of a man who may have been wrongly convicted.
Entertaining detective story. 3 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Carnival is Over by Aussie author Greg Woodland is an excellent rural crime novel set in a small inland town where people are creating their own 'opportunities' and getting away with it.
4.5★ My review of The Carnival is Over
The Ghost of Gracie Flynn by Joanna Morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Outstanding. Thirty years after she won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Annie Proulx turned her passion for the natural world into an essay project that became Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis. She means it, and she's right: “In the end all humans will be ‘haunted by waters.’”
5★ My review of Fen, Bog and Swamp
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