This was on my TBR for a very long time, and I couldn’t figure out how it got there till I brought up the fact I was reading it at book club and one of my friends mentioned that it was her recommendation. So, thank you! I really enjoyed this (though everyone is unlikeable). Penance… Read More Book Review: Penance by Eliza Clark
It has been a really long time since my last review of the Waiting for Wednesday, the previous installment in the Freida Klein series, and that’s mainly because my library’s e-copies of the book lapsed and I waited a really long time for them to get it again (guess they noticed I never cancelled my… Read More Book Review: Thursday’s Child by Nicci French
Is there more to folklore, even if the folklore isn’t from your own specific region? For Merrily Watkins, the new Pastor-in-Charge at Ledwardine, it’s a old folklore tradition (from Derbyshire) that leads to the first death she encounters in the village. As Merrily and her daughter, Jane, settle in, they have to deal with a… Read More Book Reviews: The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman
After reading and enjoying The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett, I was interested in reading more from her. So when I had a long trip, I decided to borrow the book as a palate cleanser between all the nonfiction I was reading. And wow. I started this book only intended to read a chapter or… Read More Book Review: The Appeal by Janice Hallett
I borrowed this because it was recommended in the Booklist magazine as being a mystery centered around a podcast, and also because I remember enjoying Nicci French’s Freida Klein series (which I need to continue and finish). Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? is, like the title says, about the disappearance of Charlotte Salter, who never… Read More Book Review: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French
I was at the library when I came across The Big Four and thought “hold on, an Hercule Poirot mystery that I’ve never read?”. I’m used to not having read Miss Marple, given that I focused on the Poirot mysteries when I was younger, so it was a shock to see a Poirot book that… Read More Book Review: The Big Four by Agatha Christie
I heard about this Korean mystery/thriller from a book podcast that I listen to and since it combined a murder mystery with books, I really, really wanted to read it. The only catch is that the book has not been translated into English – as far as I can find, it’s been translated into Japanese,… Read More Reading in Japanese: The Memory Bookstore by Chung Myung Seob
It’s been a bit too long since I last read an Inspector Gamache series – I think I read the previous book in the series in 2021 and one of the earlier books in 2022. But this is a series that I’ve followed for so long that I immediately borrowed All The Devils Are Here… Read More Book Review: All The Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
Is this sixth story the end of the Six Stories series??? I would hope not but I have to say that this is a fitting end to a series that I enjoyed SO MUCH. Six Stories has never shied away from difficult “cases” – a girl who murdered her family, a pop star accused of… Read More Book Review: Demon by Matt Wesolowski
I really, really can’t stay away from the Six Stories series. Deity is the fifth book in the series and I’ll probably finish the last book before the month is out! What can I say – this essentially has six long “chapters” and although I would ordinarily find the chapters long, each chapter/episode is so… Read More Book Review: Deity by Matt Wesolowski