On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared the list of books I hope to read for this year’s 20 Books of Summer reading challenge, hosted by Cathy at 746Books.
Tuesday – My take on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Titles That Evoke Spring.
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.
Thursday – I shared a list of Five Books I’ve Read About Gardens & Plant Collecting.
Friday – I published my review of Afterlight by Jaap Robben, translated by David Doherty.
Saturday – I shared my review of James by Percival Everett, a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New arrivals
The Trap by Ava Glass (eARC, Penguin via NetGalley)
How far would you go to catch a killer?
This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit.
The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned. But who is their target? There is only one way to find out. Emma must set a trap using herself as bait.
As the most powerful leaders in the world arrive and the city becomes gridlocked, Emma knows the clock is ticking.
The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs #18) by Jacqueline Winspear (eARC, Allison & Busby via NetGalley)
Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future.
London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners.
Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children’s reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft.
As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
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- Book Review: How To Make A Bomb by Rupert Thomson
- Book Review: Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
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