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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator
by Tarquin Hall
entertaining Indian cosy crime (1/8/2025)
The Case Of The Man Who Died Laughing is the second book in the Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator series by British journalist and author, Tarquin Hall. Very occasionally, Inspector Jagat Prakesh Singh of the Delhi Police asks for Vish Puri’s assistance on a case, andmore
The Case of the Missing Servant: A Vish Puri Mystery
by Tarquin Hall
entertaining Indian cosy crime (12/29/2024)
The Case Of The Missing Servant is the first book in the Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator series by British journalist and author, Tarquin Hall. The usual fare of Most Private Investigators Ltd. in Delhi is marriage: vetting prospective spouses. Vish Puri and hismore
Blood Ties: A Novel
by Jo Nesbo
This Scandi crime fiction is hard to put down. (12/7/2024)
“Sticking together, no matter what, is perhaps the family’s great blessing, but it’s also its greatest curse.”

Blood Ties is the second book in the Kingdom series by best-selling Norwegian musician, songwriter, economist and author, Jo Nesbo. It is translated from Norwegianmore
Tell Me Everything: A Novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Another moving, powerful read (12/4/2024)
Tell Me Everything is the fifth book in the Amgash series by best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning American author, Elizabeth Strout. Lucy Barton and her ex-husband Willian Gerhardt have been in Crosby, Maine for two years now, having quit New York City at the start of themore
We Solve Murders: A Novel
by Richard Osman
Very entertaining! (11/21/2024)
4.5 stars
We Solve Murders is the first book in the We Solve Murders series by British TV presenter, producer, director, and novelist, Richard Osman. By the time the third client of Maximum Impact Solutions has been murdered and left on display, Amy Wheeler and her boss,more
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
A deserving prize-winner. (11/5/2024)
All The Light We Cannot See is the Pulitzer prize-winning second novel by Anthony Doerr. The audio version is narrated by Julie Teal. In 1934, six-year-old Marie-Laure LeBlanc is going blind, and her widowed father, Daniel, principal locksmith at the Muséum National d’more
The Life Impossible: A Novel
by Matt Haig
Just wonderful! (10/21/2024)
“Everything can be beautiful with the right eyes and ears. Every genre of music. Every sorrow and every pleasure. Every inhale and exhale. Every guitar solo. Every voice. Every plant beside the tarmac.”

The Life Impossible is the eleventh novel by award-winning Britishmore
Happiness Falls: A Novel
by Angie Kim
An informative, moving and utterly enthralling read. (10/20/2024)
“…a man doesn’t come home from the park. The boy he was with, his youngest son, runs home by himself, scraped up, blood under his nails, traumatized.”

Happiness Falls is the second novel by Korean-American author, Angie Kim. When Mia Parkson’s father goes missing, amore
Olive, Again: A Novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Perceptive, funny and sad in equal measure. (10/14/2024)
Olive, Again is the second book in the Olive Kitteridge series by award-winning, best-selling American author, Elizabeth Strout and it follows on almost directly from the first book. Strout again takes us into the lives of the people of Crosby, Maine, over a period of xxmore
The Life and Death of Rose Doucette
by Harry Hunsicker
Gripping Crime Thriller (10/12/2024)
4.5?s
The Life and Death of Rose Doucette is a novel by American author, Harry Hunsicker. Former Dallas cop, now PI, Dylan Fisher is curious when the ex-wife he hasn’t seen for three years, Homicide Detective Sergeant Rose Doucette wants his input on a case that has beenmore
The Burgess Boys
by Elizabeth Strout
Moving and uplifting. (9/29/2024)
“She thought nothing could be told and be accurate. Feeble words dropped earnestly and haphazardly over the large stretched-out fabric of life with all its knots and bumps”

The Burgess Boys is the fifth novel by award-winning, best-selling American author, Elizabeth Strout.more
The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy
by Peter May
excellent Scottish crime trilogy (9/21/2024)
The Lewis Man is the second book in the Lewis Trilogy by award-winning British journalist and author, Peter May. Ten months on from losing his young son to a hit-and-run, Fin Macleod has quit his police job, divorced his wife of fourteen years, and is back on the Isle ofmore
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
A deserving prize-winner. (9/3/2024)
Olive Kitteridge is the first book in the Olive Kitteridge series by award-winning, best-selling American author, Elizabeth Strout. The small coastal Maine town of Crosby is where Olive Kitteridge and her husband Henry have lived most of their lives. Olive taught math atmore
By Any Other Name: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
sure to polarise readers. (8/17/2024)
“It wasn’t until she took a playwriting course that she realized the only thing mightier than giving a stellar performance was being the person who crafted the words an actor spoke.”

By Any Other Name is the twenty-ninth novel by award-winning, best-selling American author,more
The Fox Wife: A Novel
by Yangsze Choo
A thoroughly captivating read. (8/13/2024)
The Fox Wife is the third novel by best-selling Malaysian-Chinese author, Yangsze Choo. Bao is a sixty-three-year-old widower, a school teacher until his wife died, now a detective. It’s 1908 in Manchuria, and he has had a fascination since early childhood with foxes,more
Death at the Sign of the Rook: Jackson Brodie Series
by Kate Atkinson
another Atkinson masterpiece. (8/9/2024)
Death At The Sign Of The Rook is the sixth book in the popular Jackson Brodie series by award-winning best-selling British author, Kate Atkinson. When Dorothy Padgett dies, Jackson is asked by her twins, Hazel and Ian, to look for a painting missing from her bedroom.

It’s amore
The Spy Coast: A Martini Club Thriller
by Tess Gerritsen
Excellent (7/23/2024)
The Spy Coast is the first book in the Martini Club series by award-winning, best-selling American author, Tess Gerritsen. When someone is asking about her at the post office in Purity on the Maine coast, Maggie Bird is on immediate alert. She has had Blackberry Farm formore
Holy City
by Henry Wise
literary crime fiction at its best (7/18/2024)
4.5

“People around here seemed to live in a cloud of defeat, self-wrought and inherited. Whites had the lost cause; Blacks had slavery.”

Holy City is the first novel by American poet, photographer and author, Henry Wise. After a decade in Virginia’s Holy City, Richmond, Willmore
A Talent for Murder: A Novel
by Peter Swanson
More of this addictive series will be most welcome. (7/9/2024)
A Talent For Murder is the third book in the Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series by award-winning American author, Peter Swanson. When Martha Ratliff begins to suspect that Alan Peralta, her husband of barely a year, might be a serial killer, her options seem equallymore
Death in the Details: A Novel
by Katie Tietjen
Excellent historical crime fiction. (6/30/2024)
Death In The Details is the first novel by American author, Katie Tietjen. It’s October 1946 and, eight weeks after losing the husband who volunteered as a doctor in France, Maple Bishop learns that, despite the Government life insurance cheque, she is virtually penniless.more

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