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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone. Although I’m not afraid to step outside my comfort zone from time to time, I generally stick to my favourite genres. I’d have had to go back years to find ten books to fit the topic so I’ve decided to repeat a version of last week’s topic – Ten Random Books From My Bookshelves – using books on my Kindle. I rarely keep ebooks once I’ve read them so these are all unread, selected at random. (Ironically, a couple of these probably are out of my comfort zone.) Links will take you to the full book description on Goodreads.
- Sealskin by Su Bristow – Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous, and makes a terrible mistake.
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray – The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under – but rather than face the music, he’s spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.
- The Mangle Street Murders (The Gower Street Detective #1) by M.R.C. Kasasian – 1882. Queen Victoria may sit on the throne and Robert Peel’s bobbies walk the street, but London is still haunted by the spectre of Spring-heeled Jack.
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn – 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family.
- The Curse of the House of Foskett (The Gower Street Detective #2) by M.R.C. Kasasian – 1882. Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London’s most perspicacious personal detective . But since his last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light.
- Lost For Words by Stephanie Butland – Loveday Cardew prefers books to people.
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate – Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat.
- The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware – When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers.
- The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich – When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, she finds herself thrust into the tangled story of his childhood.
- A Kind of Light by H.R.F. Keating – Two stories, two journeys into the darkness…
Have you read any of these?
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