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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang.

Tuesday – For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday I shared ten Unfinished Books by Famous Authors.

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 A Stranger in My Grave by Margaret Millar.

Saturday – After a gap of several months, I took another trip Down the TBR Hole. 

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New arrivals

Sanctuary Motel by Alan Orloff (eARC, Level Best Books via NetGalley)

Mess Hopkins, proprietor of the seen-better-days Fairfax Manor Inn, never met a person in need who couldn’t use a helping hand — his helping hand. So he’s thrown open the doors of the motel to the homeless, victims of abuse, or anyone else who could benefit from a comfy bed with clean sheets and a roof overhead. This rankles his parents and uncle, who technically still own the place and are more concerned with profits than philanthropy.

When a mother and her teenage boy seek refuge from an abusive husband, Mess takes them in until they can get back on their feet. Shortly after arriving, the mom goes missing and some very bad people come sniffing around, searching for money they claim belongs to them. Mess tries to pump the boy for helpful information, but he’s in full uncooperative teen mode — grunts, shrugs, and monosyllabic answers. From what he does learn, Mess can tell he’s not getting the straight scoop. It’s not long before the boy vanishes too. Abducted? Run away? Something worse? And who took the missing money?

Mess, along with his friend Vell Jackson and local news reporter Lia Katsaros, take to the streets to locate the missing mother and son — and the elusive, abusive husband — before the kneecapping loansharks find them first.

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

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Planned posts

• Book Review: A Fenland Garden by Frances Pryor
• Blog Tour/Book Review: The Black Crescent  by Jane Johnson

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books With One Word Titles.

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 published my review of The Unheard by Anne Worthington as part of the blog tour.

Friday – I took part in the My Six in Six: 2023 meme. 

Saturday – I shared my review of Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman. 

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New arrivals

Held by Anne Michaels (eARC, Bloomsbury via NetGalley)

1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls.

1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his ghosts whose messages he cannot understand .

So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.

Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs #2) by Dan Jones (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers of fortune known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting – and their own lives.

Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield.

Obsessed with tracking down the vanished Captain, Loveday struggles to control his own men. Romford is haunted by the reappearance of a horrific figure from his past. And Scotsman is spiralling into a pit of drink, violence and self-pity.

The Dogs are being torn apart – but this war is far from over. It won’t be long before they lose more of their own…

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

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Planned posts

• Book Review: Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang
• Book Review: A Fenland Garden by Frances Pryor
• Book Review: A Stranger in my Grave by Margaret Millar