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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – I shared my review of crime novel, The Santa Killer by Ross Greenwood as part of the blog tour. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Titles Containing Geographical Terms. 

Wednesday – I published my review of dual-time novel, Island of Secrets by Patricia Wilson, set on the island of Crete.  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. 

Thursday – I shared my publication day review of historical novel, Essex Dogs by Dan Jones. 

Friday – I made another trip Down the TBR Hole to take a long hard look at the oldest books in my TBR pile. Should they stay or should they go?

Saturday – I celebrated completing the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2022. 

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New arrivals

The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse (ARC, Moonflower Books)

Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust – not his secretive lover Mariam, not even his old mentor, Professor Fayard, the man at the centre of the web. He is ready to give up. But he can’t.

In search of the truth, Alex must follow the trail through an ominous spiral of events, from a string of brutal child murders to a chaotic coup in North Africa. He rapidly finds himself in a heart-thumping race against chaos and destruction. He could be the world’s only hope of preventing THE COMING DARKNESS… 

SBS: Special Boat Squadron by Iain Gale (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

From this moment on, you and your men, you don’t exist.

Operation Anglo, 31 August 1942. Beneath the waves of the Mediterranean, HMS Traveller closes in on the coast of Rhodes. Aboard, eight SBS commandos check their weapons as they prepare to infiltrate and sabotage two Axis bomber fields. Only two of the eight commandos will make it back to alive. Ex-Black Watch Sgt Jim Hunter will be one of the lucky ones, but what he will face next will make Operation Anglo look like a cakewalk.

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: Life Time by Russell Foster
• Book Review: The Bone Flower by Charles Lambert
• Book Review: The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland
• Book Review: All the Broken Places by John Boyne

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio.

Tuesday – I shared my review of crime mystery Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson as part of the blog tour. I also hosted a guest post by M. Z. Urlocker, authors of The Man From Mittelwerk, about some of their favourite Cold War noir novels. 

Wednesday – 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. 

Thursday – I published my review of At the Breakfast Table by Defne Suman. 

Friday – I hosted a guest post by Barbara Evans Kinnear about her father’s memoir, Richard Eager: A Pilot’s Story. 

Saturday – I joined the #SixonSaturday gang with an update on what’s growing and what’s not in my garden.

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New arrivals

The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

Neva Friezland is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes can be won and lost on the turn of a card.

She is also born with an extraordinary gift. She can predict the weather. In Regency England, where the proper goal for a gentlewoman is marriage and only God knows the weather, this is dangerous. It is also potentially very lucrative.

In order to debate with the men of science and move about freely, Neva adopts a sophisticated male disguise. She foretells the weather from inside an automaton created by her brilliant clockmaker father.

But what will happen when the disguised Neva falls in love with a charismatic young man?

It can be very dangerous to be ahead of your time. Especially as a woman.

Mother of Valor (Valorie Dawes #4) by Gary Corbin (eARC)

As part of a prostitution sting operation, rookie cop Val Dawes uncovers a national sex trafficking ring operating out of Clayton, one with ties to a violent shadowy right-wing splinter group. Her investigation reveals the group may be planning a violent attack in a matter of days.

Just when the investigation heats up, her estranged mother, who left without a trace a decade before, suddenly reappears on the scene, with a nine-year-old brother Val never knew she had. Manipulative and cunning, her mother divides Val’s attention and loyalties, seemingly intent on disrupting both Val’s promising career and her rekindled relationship with her father.

As Val the group’s violent plans near, Val tries to safeguard her family, leading to shocking discoveries about why her mother returned – and why she left in the first place.

Can Val keep her community safe without destroying her family?

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: Life Time by Russell Foster
• Book Review/Blog Tour: The Santa Killer by Ross Greenwood
• Book Review: Island of Secrets by Patricia Wilson
• Book Review: Essex Dogs by Dan Jones