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I’ve found my next favorite series. Black diamond
. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not a mystery, but interesting.Shmutz
by Felicia BerlinerThe story revolves around a teenage girl named Raizl who lives with her Chasidic (orthodox Jewish) family in Brooklyn. Raizl is addicted to porn and is torn between her community and her wish to have some freedom.
This story is certainly something different. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished the short gothic suspense novel
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
Next in Line by Jeffrey Archer ⭐⭐⭐⭐.3https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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5/5 stars
Coming out March, 2023
Please read my review linked below
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Roads Chosen, by Ben Carlyle.
The Last Party
was great fun and had me guessing up until the end. My five star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm sure The Sisters: Short Story, from James Joyce's much studied Dubliners, would have stirred up as much controversy then as the subject does today.
3★ My review of The Sisters
I enjoyed the latest (last?) pilgrimage that Rachel Joyce's characters have made to the north of England. This time, it's the missus who looks for answers in Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North. Another good road trip.
4★ My review of Maureen Fry
Now working my way through HELL AND BACK by Craig Johnson, the 18th novel in his mystery/thriller series featuring tough-as-nails sheriff Walt Longmire.
James wrote: "Now working my way through HELL AND BACK by Craig Johnson, the 18th novel in his mystery/thriller series featuring tough-as-nails sheriff Walt Longmire."I like the Walt Longmire books and TV series. 🙂
I read a disappointing historical fiction book, which I rated 2.5 stars rounded up The Battle of Wagram by Gilles Lapouge My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished The Widowmaker
. I was T really a fan. My three star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished and loved: Strange Sally Diamond
by Liz NugentMy Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/5032389111
For fans of Nordic Noir and police procedurals, The Collector
is a good choice. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐.8 https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
The Boys from Biloxi by John GrishamJohn Grisham - Not your usual style of legal thriller, but has all the elements and moreHere's my 4* review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall SmithMma Ramotswe - who owns No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - gets involved in various disparate situations.
Entertaining and fun book. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
C.S. Harris combines mystery and history better than most, and I knew I'd enjoy #5 in her Sebastian St Cyr series, What Remains of Heaven. Great series!
5★ My review ot What Remains of Heaven
Bernice Runs Away by Talya Tate Boerner ⭐⭐⭐.6 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
I've read The Will by Rebecca Reid
Here is my five-star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorThis was a geopolitical espionage story and an entirely nonfiction one at that. While I don't share author Stephen Kinzer's conviction, this was an intriguing book providing an overview of Iranian history and delving deeply into foreign intrigue of the 1950s.
My review - www.goodreads.com/review/show/4902400942
I read The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff It is literary fiction set in a small village in India.It is both funny and sad as it depicts women confronting domestic abuse and more. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Dead Man in Naples
by Michael PearceSeymour of the Yard #6, probably OK to read as a standalone. It's 1913. An important Englishman has been killed in Naples and Mr. Seymour is dispatched to find the killer. I like the series but I found this entry a bit slow.
One of the classic 70s hardboiled PI series, I'm enjoying the DKA Files books by Joe GoresMy review of
- Final Notice by Joe Goreshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorThis was a geopolit..."
I read Kinzer's book Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, which I thought was excellent. Creepy doings, but it was a well-written book.
Nick Jones' And Then She Vanished is a wonderful example of time traveling! I loved it! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I just finished Portrait of an Unknown Woman and found it great entertainment. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm reading Something Wilder by Christina Lauren and listening to Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn.My latest review is for Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Hell and Back by Craig Johnson It is book 18 in the Longmire series, and while they are best read in order, it can be read as a stand alone.It is quite different form the other books in the series. I rate it 3.5 stars rounded up. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bombay Monsoon
was a bit of a miss for me. My three star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am absolutely enjoying continuing the time travel adventures of Joseph Bridgeman; #2 is titled The Shadows of London / Nick Jones. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...I plan to start #3 this afternoon!
This is a delightfully colourful children's book with cheeky remarks and enough real facts to pique even my interest. The World's Most Ridiculous Animals, written and illustrated by Philip Bunting, should appeal to kids and anyone reading to or with them.
5★ My review of Ridiculous Animals with some illustrations
Isaac Asimov wrote
The Last Question
back in 1956 when computers were the size of rooms. This is an entertaining, very short, story, and a shock to read it in a time of Siri and Google.
4★ My review of The Last Question with links to the story and an interview
The Ink Black Heart
by Robert GalbraithCormoran Strike #6. WARNING unpopular opinion follows -- I have read and enjoyed the previous books in this series but....this book is just over 1000 pages, weighs 2.75 pounds and is 2.5 inches thick. That's ridiculous. I got a quarter of the way through and quit. Life is too short.
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by Robert GalbraithCormoran Strike #6. WARNING unpopular opinion follows -- I have read and enjoyed the previous books in this series b..."
A Thousand pages? Sheesh!
I finished the third book (and best so far) in the LAPD Det. Harry Bosch series
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading this collection of two stories that inspired the classic films
The Third Man / The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
I finished The Intruder by Daniel Hurst
Here is my three star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I used to read the Donald Westlake books and they never failed to entertain me. I also found an author, Stewart Palmer, who wrote mysteries in the 1930s, and he's another one you might want to try. Just thought I'd mention it.