Changing Fortune Cookies, #14 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series is now available! If you did not preorder, click through and get your copy now!
If you have not read anything else in the series, you might want to also pick up Gluten-Free Murder (free), or the collection of books 1-3 ($2.99 for a limited time)
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I just finished The Last Train to London. It’s a pretty heart-wrenching book, as you’ll probably guess when you read the description below. It is a fictionalization of Truus Wijsmuller’s (Tante Truus’s) efforts to smuggle Jewish children out of Germany and Austria during WWII. It is a slow build, with no graphic violence and while it is tense, you are not usually on the edge of your seat. But I will tell you, the scenes of the parents saying goodbye to their children as they were put on the train, knowing that they would quite likely never see them again had me pretty choked up.
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I am currently reading Shed No Tears by Caz Frear, book 3 in the Kat Kinsella series. I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, but had no problem getting into it or following the storyline. I am definitely curious about the other books in the series and will pick them up as I see them. Shed No Tears is a UK police procedural, an investigation into a cold case. The victim was previously assumed to be the victim of a serial killer who had been caught and convicted, but when the body surfaces some years later, there are enough doubts raised to question whether it was actually one of the serial killer’s or not.
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I am in the midst of my latest read by John Grisham, A Time for Mercy, released in October 2020. It is the third in the Jake Brigance series. It is what Grisham does best, legal suspense and courtroom drama. The characters are well-developed, the legal challenges clear and concise, and a fifteen-year-old’s life is on the line.
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I am most of the way through Death Without Company, which is book #2 in Craig Johnson’s Longmire Mysteries series. I was not aware before I started it, but this series is the basis for a Netflix series called Longmire. I just checked, and it’s available on the Canadian version of Netflix as well as the US.
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I was afraid when I looked at my recent blog posts that I was featuring a James Patterson book two weeks in a row. Close, but not quite! I featured James Patterson’s Lost two weeks ago, and this week, it is Hush, book number four in the Harriet Blue series. I haven’t previously read any of the books in this series, I don’t think, so you can definitely read it as a standalone and understand all of what is going on. Hush is set in Australia, with an Australian narrator for the audiobook. Harriet Blue is a tough female cop who doesn’t just cross the line in her investigations, she bulldozes right through any policy or law that stands in her way.
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I just finished Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. I’ve read a number of books in the Maisie Dobbs series, and they are quite interesting. The audiobook I listened to had an interview with Winspear at the end of it and it was quite interesting to listen to her speak about the way that the Maisie Dobbs character and series came about.
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This week I am reading Lost, by James Patterson and James O Born. It is a great thriller that revolves around international human trafficking and is set in Miami, Florida.
Take the compassion of James Patterson’s Michael Bennett, a New York cop with ten adopted children, mixed together with the failed football career of David Baldacci’s Amos Decker, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Det. Tom Moon.
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I haven’t been enamored with some of John Grisham’s releases, but The Guardians, a legal suspense novel released in 2019 hits all of the right notes for me. It is not fast-paced, but definitely holds my interest as public defender-turned-priest-turned-innocence lawyer Cullen Post works a case to get a death-row inmates’ conviction overturned. He is working on several cases at the same time, so you get to hear a number of stories about the type of people who may end up in prison or on death row even though they are innocent.
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In today’s book, The Outsider by Linda Castillo, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is snowbound in Amish country in Ohio, along with a fugitive who happens to be an old friend. While she would like to think that Gina is blameless in the situation she finds herself in, Kate knows that her friend is keeping things from her and that she cannot keep Gina’s presence from the men who are looking for her for long.
I always enjoy Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series. They are warm and homey, with a sharp edge of suspense to keep you from getting too comfortable. Who knew that Amish suspense would be such a great mashup?
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