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Finding out What She Knew

January 11, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

This week I am reading What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan. I don’t think I’ve read anything else by this author, but I would definitely read another. It has been a good read so far.

The “she” in the title refers to Rachel Jenner, a mom who is out walking in the woods with her son one day when he disappears, apparently kidnapped. It is a good police procedural/psychological suspense novel. Multiple perspectives, you get to see things from the mother’s point of view and the lead investigator’s, as they are both looking back on what happened.

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Reading about People Like Her

January 4, 2022 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I’ve picked up a few interesting books lately, but this one is the first one in a little while that is really remarkable. It will, hopefully, do very well and I will be looking for other books by this author.

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In suspense with Mother May I

December 28, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

Looking over what I have read recently, I have picked out Mother May I, by Joshilyn Jackson. This book will require you to suspend disbelief to a certain degree. I had a hard time believing that someone would behave the way that the protagonist mother did in this book, but if you can get past that, there are plenty of chills and thrills in this one.

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Something could happen in the Blink of an Eye

December 21, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I recently read Blink of an Eye (Kendra Michaels Book 8) by Roy and Iris Johansen. I think this is the first Kendra Michaels book I have read, though I’m not 100% sure. There was enough back story to understand what was going on and the relationships that each character had with each other. Although there was some deeper stuff going on with Kendra and her flame that I was left wondering about and may have to go back a few books to figure out! Which is exactly how authors should pull you into their series!

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Don’t go overboard with Devil’s Breath

December 14, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Another new-to-me author this week. I am reading Devil’s Breath, the sixth book in G.M. Malliet’s Max Tudor Mystery series. Not having read the previous books in the series, I am a little confused as to why the police would involve a former-MI5-operative-turned-vicar in the murder of a film star aboard a yacht. But whatever it takes to get the sleuth into the plot, I guess!

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A quirky book – Holy Orders

December 7, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I don’t think that I have read anything by Benjamin Black before. Today I started on Holy Orders, book 6 in the Quirke series. A quirky (if I may say so) pathologist taking on the role of detective to find the culprit who murdered a friend of his daughter. The Quirke series has apparently been adapted for television, though I have never seen any of the episodes.

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Reading Verses for the Dead

November 30, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Verses for the Dead is book #18 in the Pendergast series by Preston & Child. If you have read any of the rest of the series, you know that Agent Pendergast (FBI) prefers to work on his own, but in this case he is paired up with a junior agent to “assist” him (ie. spy on him and report any rogue behaviour to their boss.) A serial killer is on the loose, and Pendergast is the only one who seems to have any idea how to pursue the investigation.

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Investigating A Most Curious Murder

November 23, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

This is a new cozy mystery series and author for me. Book #1 in the Little Library Mystery series, A Most Curious Murder features protagonist Jenny returning to her hometown after a nasty divorce. She is confronted by first, the destruction of her mother’s little library, and then by something even worse…

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Gamache Explores The Madness of Crowds

November 16, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

This week I picked up Louise Penny’s newest Chief Inspector Gamache book, The Madness of Crowds. I posted about the previous book in this series, which is All the Devils Are Here. I have enjoyed all of the Inspector Gamache books that I have read, and this one is no difference.

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Let’s not forget this classic Agatha Christie

November 9, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I have just finished reading Elephants Can Remember, a classic Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie. I don’t recall having read this one before. It was an engaging story, with the facts/clues presented to the reader giving them lots of opportunity to put the puzzle together and figure out what happened. Christie sometimes holds back clues from the reader, especially in Poirot books, not telling us everything that the Belgian detective has discovered in his investigations, but I think everything relevant had been mentioned in this one. I had a pretty good idea what had happened, though there are enough red herrings to keep me guessing as to which are relevant.

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