This blog was developed to give me a space to give you recommendations of books that I’ve read and loved. Hope you enjoy them as much as I!
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Canton
July 12, 2023 by
Mira Bunting has founded an eco-guerilla gardening group. She meets multi-billionaire Robert Lemoine. They use each other to achieve their goals, Mira’s to battle climate change and Robert’s to make more billions by disregarding the cost to the earth. The book’s well paced, the characters interesting and the dialogue is terrific. I did find the ending rather bleak so if you’re looking for a pick me up this isn’t it!
The Twyford Code
July 12, 2023 by
By Janice Hallett The Twyford Code is written as a series of 200 audio files that have been recovered and deciphered from an iPhone belonging to Steven Smith, an ex-con recently released from prison after being incarcerated for 11 years. He is desperately trying to figure out what happened to his elementary school teacher, Miss […]
[Continue reading...]The Appeal
July 12, 2023 by
By Janice Hallett The story revolves around a group of community theatre actors who have responded to an appeal sent out by their director. Someone ends up dead and the novel is written as series of emails interspersed with the musings of the detectives who are on this puzzling case. It is an original and […]
[Continue reading...]We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
July 12, 2023 by
By Tsering Yangsom Lama In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. Their parents do not survive the journey. The sisters are fiercely loyal to each other. This story is compelling, the characters intimately drawn and the voices so […]
[Continue reading...]Our Best Intentions
July 12, 2023 by
By; Bihuti Jain This is a suspensful read about a daughter (Angie) and her dad (Bobby) who are trying to fit into a community that is dripping with privilege and racism. Angie comes across the brother of an ex-friend of hers bleeding from a stab wound in his abdomen. Angie does her best to recall […]
[Continue reading...]Dirt Creek by Haley scrivenor
May 16, 2023 by
12 year old Esther disappears on her way home from school. Her best friend Ronnie is determined to find her. Their “sort of” friend Lewis is holding something back. Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels is called in to investigate. Everybody has a secret and nobody in this small “dirt” town in the outbacks of Australia seems […]
[Continue reading...]Those who knew by Idra Novey
May 16, 2023 by
When do you speak out and at what cost? The story takes place on an unamed island in the aftermath of a US supported regime that has wreaked havok on the island people. Lena suspects that a powerful senator she was once involved with has murdered a young woman in his employ. What follows is […]
[Continue reading...]The Cloisters By Katy Hays
May 16, 2023 by
Ann Stilwell gets a job at the Cloisters, a museum and garden that is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. There she meets Patrick, who is her supervisor and is working with art dealers to locate a pack of 15th Century tarot cards. Ann and her colleague, Rachel, become embroiled in […]
[Continue reading...]Fortune Favours the Dead
February 16, 2023 by
By Stephen Spotswood I’ve just read Murder under her skin which follows Fortune Favours the Dead. These books are set in post-WWII USA. Will and Ms Pentacost are two of the most unlikely characters to ever to be drawn as detectives, but detectives they are and they don’t fit that post war mould of what […]
[Continue reading...]The Appeal
February 16, 2023 by
By Janice Hallett An amateur theater group starts a fundraising campaign when their director tells them that his granddaughter is in need of a very expensive drug to cure her of cancer. Someone is murdered and the chief inspector has asked two of his detectives to go through the emails that have been circulating prior […]
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