On What Cathy Read Next last week
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie on the theme of Hallowe’en. My take was A Warning to the Curious: Ghost Stories by M. R. James.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Friday – I published my review of Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd.
Saturday – I took part in the #6Degrees of Separation meme forging a book chain from Intermezzo by Sally Rooney to Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll.
New arrivals
A book club pick and a NetGalley ARC
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin (audiobook)
Frances Adams always said she’d be murdered. She was right.
It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s life takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously. Until that is, nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered.
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder.
Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer? As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her great aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.
The Bookseller (DS Cross #7) by Tim Sullivan (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Someone’s about to turn their last page…
THE SETTING – When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such a violent end in this quiet, peaceful place.
THE CONFLICT – DS Cross is adept at dismissing red-herrings but a worrying development in his personal life has left him hopelessly distracted, leaving his usual means of deciphering evidence challenged.
THE MURDER PLOT – The world of bookselling is a quiet one, but it is full of passionate and ambitious characters. They know a rare book equals a big payoff – and their extensive reading means they also know the best ways to get away with murder…
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Revenge of Rome (Eagles of the Empire #23) by Simon Scarrow
- Book Review: Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll
- Book Review: The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
- My Five Favourite October 2024 Reads
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