TBR – Page 17 – What Cathy Read Next…

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. One of last year’s topics was My Winter 2019/20 TBR and I thought it would be fun to check how many I actually read. I have to say, given my past record on lists like this, the results were surprising.

I wonder if it will be a similar story when I come to look back on My Spring 2020 TBR?

Payback (DI Charley Mann #1) by R.C. Bridgestock – the first in a new crime series from the husband and wife team behind the novels featuring DI Jack Dylan. Read and reviewed (links from titles will take you to my review)

Mrs. P’s Book of Secrets by Lorna Gray – ‘There are no white shrouded spectres here, no wailing ghouls. Just the echoes of those who have passed, whispering that history is set to repeat itself.’ Read and reviewed

A Messy Affair (Lena Szarka Mystery #3) by Elizabeth Mundy – Lena Szarka, a Hungarian cleaner working in London, is forced to brush up on her detective skills for a third time when her cousin Sarika is plunged into danger. Read and reviewed

The Other You by J.S. Monroe – a ‘gripping and addictive’ new thriller for 2020. Read and reviewed

The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson – Two women – servant, Joan Vaux and Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII – with two very different destinies are drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London. Read and reviewed

Hitler’s Secret (Tom Wilde #4)by Rory Clements – set in 1941, Cambridge history professor, Tom Wilde is asked by an American intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Nazi Germany. Read and reviewed

The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson – set in 1920s London, an inspiring story of struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Read and reviewed

Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin – from the author of The Wicked Cometh, what’s described as ‘a dark, page-turning tale of passion and romance in the darkest of places’. Read and reviewed

The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel – described as ‘a chilling exploration into obsession, reconciliation and revenge’. Read and reviewed

Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne – described as ‘a fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life’. Read and reviewed

Well, what do you know – a full house! Of course, it did help that a lot of the books I put on my list were for blog tours. If you had a Winter TBR list, did you get through all the books you planned to read?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is My Spring 2020 TBR . ThIs is an easy one for me because it just requires a quick glance at my reading schedule for March, April and May. Gosh, there are some enticing looking reads coming up! Links from the titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads (where available).

The Saracen’s Mark by S.W. Perry – Third in the series of historical crime mysteries set in 16th century London

The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay – In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. One of the books on the longlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize

Summer in Provence by Lucy Coleman – We’re promised a ‘feel good’ romance that poses the question “Is a change as good as a rest?”

I Am Dust by Louise Beech – Described as “a bewitching, beguiling and terrifyingly dark psychological thriller”

Patrol by Fred Madjalany – part of the Imperial War Museum’s wartime classics series

The Wheelwright’s Daughter by Eleanor Porter – ‘A brilliant and accomplished novel that perfectly captures the febrile atmosphere of Elizabethan village life in an age when suspicion and superstition were rife.’

The Figure in the Photograph by Kevin Sullivan – Described as a ‘page-turning historical whodunnit

When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby – Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice.

A Wedding in the Olive Garden by Leah Fleming – Described as a ‘gorgeous, warm-hearted and uplifting novel’ that conjures the local colour, traditions and close bonds of Greek island life.

People Like Us by Louise Fein – Set in 1930s Germany, perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Book Thief.