Monthly Archives: May 2024

This seems like a very gentle story about a young girl who lives on an island off Ireland, but be careful.  Whale Fallby Elizabeth O’Connor Read by Gwyneth Keyworth 3h 50mMay 1, 2024Rating 10 / literary fiction (I should have read this … Continue reading →

When Jack Lee looks into and accepts the case of Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with murdering a prominent couple in their home in rural-ish Freeman, Virginia,  it attracts attention.  The year is 1968.  Local white men beat Jack … Continue reading →

Prologue –  Moscow – 2023:   Ivan Volkov Moscow – receives messages re spying in space and possible war – satellites have become dangerous in Russia’s war in Ukraine.  Ivan has lost his father and his son because Russia is … Continue reading →

I came up with The Boy in the Suitcase by Lena Kaaberbel which is also translated and an award winning mystery by an author I’ve never read.  (Yay!).  The Boy in the Suitcase by Lena Kaaberbøl /Agnete Friis translated from Danish by … Continue reading →

This was my second reading of On Animals –  and it was better than I expected –  HUH? –  Well,  yeah –  I wasn’t terribly impressed the first time ‘round but toward the end on the second I got involved … Continue reading →

I’m not amused.  I read Maisie Hobbs, the first book in this series, many years ago, enjoyed it okay and was curious. But  not enough to continue just then. Now a challenge has come along and I’m to read a … Continue reading →

Close to Death as the title of Horowitz’s 5th book in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series series is a pun. The “close” referred to is a short, dead end street somewhat like a cut-de-sac in the US.  In this case … Continue reading →

I’m not a big fan of James Patterson,  but when he co-authors a book with Maxine Paetro I turn into one. So I stay caught up on the Women’s Mystery Club series. until there’s nothing new for me there and … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading this popular mystery series for about 8 years going at the rate of about 1 book per year – lol!  This means I’’m working at catch-up but not really.  I’ve been reading “the next one” more often … Continue reading →

 wasn’t going to do this but I started the third book in the Natchez Burning trilogy the same day I finished The Bone Tree, the second book. The narrative just flows from one to the next without a break although … Continue reading →

“Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month. This month was easy because self-evidently May has only three letters — and the theme is Nature” which lends itself … Continue reading →

And this beat just keeps going right on. I even pre-ordered this book a few months ago.  I thought they’d tell me when it was available but no –  I lucked into it anyway.  This is #24 in The Women’s … Continue reading →

William Faulkner famously and wisely said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”   That’s the main theme of this whole trilogy. A secondary theme might be from Martin Luther King, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light … Continue reading →

With 19 novels (usually long) and 1 novella to his name, Greg Isles has been writing some of the grittiest Southern fiction on the market. I’ve read books by him before, but Natchez Burning is one of the best to … Continue reading →

This is the first in a series (of 2 book so far) and I wanted to read book #2 but it didn’t seem wise without having read book #1 – sooooo –  I know I’ve read something by Susan Isaacs … Continue reading →