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I read The Lost House by Melissa Larsen It is set in Iceland about an unsolved 40 year old murder. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mania
by Lionel ShriverIn this (what I would call dystopian) novel, a 'mental parity ' movement has taken over the U.S. EVERYONE is considered equally intelligent.
You have to read it to believe it. LOL 😀 4 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm still glad that this year I chose Michael Connelly as an author to read each month. The Narrows is deadly in the desert and absolutely terrifying in a flood.
My review of The Narrows
An Oxford student tries to find The Girl Who Wasn't There in Arvind Ethan David's dramatised story. He'd really liked her when she was - or was she?
My review of The Girl Who Wasn't There
I finished Run by Blake Crouch
Here is my five star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Second Term by J.M. Adams
Here is my five star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Hiding Lies by Stephanie Rose
It's a nice cross between a thriller and horror.
Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Boundaries We Cross by Brad Parks
Very good story with lots of unexpected twists: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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My review of Death at a Scottish Christmas by Lucy Connelly
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
If y'all haven't read Killers of a Certain Age
by Deanna Raybourn yet, let me advise you to:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
–also–
Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia Kelly:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Secret of Excalibur
4 stars
high octane over the top action and stunts and Excalibur.
My review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Death at the Sign of the Rook
is hysterical. My five star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Richard wrote: "I haven't seen a post from the group in ages, and now I know why...so please indulge me as I make a:GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT.
If you have noticed that you are not receiving notifications of posts on yo..."
Thank you! Good to know there’s a way to handle this bad decision on GR’s part.
Lucifer's Tears
by James ThompsonFinnish detective Kari Vaara gets involved in two tricky cases: a Finnish national hero is accused of being a war criminal, and a woman has been tortured and murdered.
Good Nordic noir. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Do you want a funny, lesbian-centered cozy horror mystery for your #Deathtober reading pleasure? I'm here to tell you that you really do: Bad Makes Bad
by Ilyn Welch got over 4* from me here:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Beneath the Poet’s House
is an interesting mix of thriller romance and horror. My four star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The latest Rebecca Zanetti Laurel Snow installment was classic Zanetti. LOVED IT!!!
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Another Tess Gerritsen read that had me engrossed from the get-go. Gerritsen is a good writer and storyteller and I readlly like her work.
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Another Simone St James creepy and scary ghost story. I love St James gothic storytelling.
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Beartooth by Callan Wink It is a wilderness crime book, set near Yellowstone National Park. My 3.5 star rounded down review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... If you are an animal lover, you would not like the graphic description of the bears being butchered.
Wilderness crime fans might like this book. Animal lovers would not.
Now starting ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S.A. Cosby, his latest stand alone mystery/thriller novel published in 2023.The book won the Anthony, Macavity, and ITW Awards as the Best Mystery Novel of the Year and is a finalist for the Edgar, Steel Dagger, and Barry Awards in the same category with the winners still to be announced.
I read Cosby's two earlier novels last year and really liked them, although readers should know upfront that the subject matter is not for the squeamish.
A charming read
The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey ⭐⭐⭐.6 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Blue Last
by Martha GrimesRichard Jury #17. One of Jury's old police coworkers and friends is ill and asks Jury's help in solving a murder. Ms. Grimes is a very fine author and this book has a very complex plot and great characters. Very well done English mystery which I very much enjoyed until the ending which I hated. So 4 stars instead of 5.
I finished my 92nd book
Still working my way through J.D. Robb's In Death series featuring Detective Eve Dallas one book at a time. I may catch up one day in the distant future!
Celebrity in Death #34 (of 60 books) is a good one with the death of a cast member in the movie production of one of Eve's famous cases. Less dramatic and intense than some in the series but with an engrossing mystery and plenty of interaction between the main characters.review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Carolyn wrote: "Still working my way through J.D. Robb's In Death series featuring Detective Eve Dallas one book at a time. I may catch up one day in the distant future
Smokin" Seventeen
by Janet EvanovichStephanie Plum #17. The cops are finding bodies buried on the lot where the bail bond agency was. And while Stephanie and Lula do their thing Stephanie is being stalked and also pursued by a new guy who wants her as his girlfriend. It's another cute lightweight adventure mystery from Ms. Evanovich. I liked it -- 3 stars.
just finished the NIGHT BEFORE BY LISA JACKSON
Invisible Helix
was very dry and it’s unclear if that is down to the translation. My three star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mona of the Manor by Armistead MaupinIn this final book in the series, an American couple are booked at the British manor house/hotel belonging to Lady Roughton (aka Mona), and there's plenty going on there. The book works fine as a standalone.
Entertaining story. 4 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two Netgalley mysteries in a series via Simon & Schuster. Japantown
here:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
–and–
Tokyo Kill here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Both are by Barry Lancet.
5/5 stars
Another lyrical novel by the Irish writer John Banville.
Please read my review linked below:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Currently reading The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
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Nancy wrote: "Reading a novel I should have DNFed some time ago, but it's part of my ongoing thing with poison pen mysteries -- Murder in the Snow by Gladys Mitchell. I'm dying of boredom with th..."Nancy, the link goes to the main book page not your review.
Nancy wrote: "Reading a novel I should have DNFed some time ago, but it's part of my ongoing thing with poison pen mysteries -- Murder in the Snow by Gladys Mitchell. I'm dying of boredom with th..."That's hard, feeling compelled to finish a bad book. I admire your determination Nancy.
Finished Pity Him Afterwards by Donald E. Westlake. A relatively short 1964 crime novel and interesting character study of a man with mental illness and violent tendencies.
Potsdam Station
by David DowningJohn Russell #4. .... Berlin & Moscow, 1945. Russell, his girlfriend Effi and his son Paul try to survive the deadly and frightening last days of WW II. I've liked the series pretty well up until now but this book is full -- page after page -- of details of the hellish environment of those terrible days and lengthy descriptions of the fear, starvation, brutality and torture of the Nazis and Communists as chaos rules. I got about halfway through the book and skipped to the end to see who survives. This is something i never do. Don't know if I'll continue the series or not. 1 star.
Nancy wrote: "Reading a novel I should have DNFed some time ago, but it's part of my ongoing thing with poison pen mysteries -- Murder in the Snow by Gladys Mitchell. I'm dying of boredom with th..."Was wondering if I had missed one but discovered it was originally called Groaning Spinney.
Is it bad? Or just not striking you right?
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