A Beautiful Corpse – Christi Daugherty

A Beautiful Corpse - Christi Daugherty

A Beautiful Corpse – Christi Daugherty (Book #2 – Harper McClain)   A Beautiful Corpse is the second book in Christi Daugherty’s series featuring newspaper crime reporter Harper McClain. I read the first book in the series The Echo Killing earlier this year. Both were really, really good. In both books the murders that form the core of the book have a connection to Harper. In The Echo Killing the murder eerily resembles her mother’s unsolved murder. While in A Beautiful Corpse the victim Naomi Scott a law student tends bar in an establishment that Harper frequents and where her…

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The Current – Tim Johnston -Book 19 of 2019

  The Current by Tim Johnston The Current by Tim Johnston begins with a tragedy. Audrey Sutter is coming home from college to visit her dying father. Her friend Caroline Price offers to give her a ride. Tragedy strikes on a snowy night. The girls stop for gas and to use the rest room. Leaving the rest room they  are attacked by two men. They fight them off and escape only to end up off the road at the edge of the.   River. After a stranger asks if they are ok .Soon another vehicle hits their car sending it into…

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The Disappearing – Lori Roy – Edgar Worthy!

The Disappearing - Lori Roy

The Disappearing – Lori Roy Lori Roy’s first novel Bent Road was published in 2011. In 2012 it won an Edgar Award for best first novel. Lori’s third book Let Me Die in His Footsteps was published in 2015. It won an Edgar for Best Novel in 2016. That win made Lori thee first woman to win An Edgar Allen Poe Award for both  Best First Novel and Best Novel. She’s only the third person to do it overall! Her latest release The Disappearing was released last year to rave reviews. After finishing the book the other day I’m ready…

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The Other Wife – Michael Robotham

3. The Other Wife – Michael Robotham Michael Robotham series featuring Joe O’Loughlin is one of my favorites.. In this installment of the series Joe gets a call from a distraught woman who tells him he must come to London. His father has been attacked and is fighting for his life. She claims to be his father’s “other wife” and has been that for the last twenty years! Talk about your life being turned upside down! Anyway, Joe is left to discover the truth about the attack and “the other wife”. Once again Joe and his friend former Police inspector…

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No Defense – Kate Wilhelm – Rescued from the Giveaway Pile!

<div></div> Let’s Start A New Series – No Defense – Kate Wilhelm (Barbara Holloway # 5) This afternoon I finished  No Defense by Kate Wilhelm. It is the 54th book I have read in 2018. And how I came to read it is a little different. A few weeks ago I came home with nine books from the used book sale at the library. Typically, when I do this my wife says “ that’s ok but now you need to get rid of nine books”. And I usually say “ yeah right!” Which of course means no way! This time though,…

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Loner by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Everything You’d Want in a Nordic Mystery!

NSo over the last several days,, after finishing Steve Hamilton’s<strong> Dead Man Running</strong>, I have finished two more books. The first was <b><u>Loner</u></b> by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. It is her debut novel and will be book #1 in the Oslo Mysteries series. About Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Hildur was born in Iceland but is currently living in Norway. Although, spending most of her adult years at the University, she’s been writing ever since she was a little girl and alongside Medical studies and a Master’s in Engineering, has also taken a year in Creative Writing. Loner was written in Iceland and…

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Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight is Back!! Yeah!

  Books From Two Favorite Authors – Steve Hamilton and William Kent Krueger Arrive!   Back in July, I wrote a post to both remind myself and to let readers know that books from three of my favorite authors were being releasedt in August. The three authors,whose books were being released on August 21st, were Karin Slaughter, William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton. Thanks to the post I remembered to go to my library’s website and request the books. At the end of last week, the books from William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton became available. My hold position for…

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An Update – August Reads After the 2018 Booktube-a-Thon

<h5><em><strong>August Reads After the 2018 Booktube-a-Thon</strong></em></h5> So August just blew by. I started the month in a reading frenzy, as I participated in the 2017 Booktube Tube-a-thon. A seven-day event with seven challenges presented concerning the seven books you are reading in the challenging. I completed the challenge having read five of the seven books in the seven-day period. I finished August reading four more books. That brought the number of books I’ve read in 2018 to 44 books. And kept me on pace to reach my goal of 65 books for the year. However, since finishing Burning Angel by…

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The Sinister Pig – Tony Hillerman – Another Visit with an Old Favorite

  The Sinister Pig – Tony Hillerman  So I have read almost all of the books in the Jim Chee – Joe Leaphorn series. However, the last Tony Hillerman  book I read was in 2000, when I read  Hunting  Badger (Book #14)!The Sinister Pig (Book #16) in the series has probably been on my bookshelves unread for about 5 years or more. Since one of my reading challenges for 2018 is to read 25 books that are on my TBR shelves and specifically books from series that I have not read for years, choosing The Sinister Pig was a no-brainer. In…

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The Shadow District Begins a New Series from Arnaldur Indridason

<h4><em>The Shadow District – Reykjavik Wartime Mystery #1</em></h4> The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason is book one in his new Reykjavik Wartime Mystery series. Indridason is the author of the excellent Detective Erlender series. However, I must admit that while I have loved the series books I have read, I have fallen behind in the series. As a result, I often forget about the series. Can out say once again “too many books too little time”. Anyway, when I saw The Shadow District in the library and discovered it was book one in a new series It was a no brainer to…

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