Holly Reads Too Much

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  • Murder on the Rocks: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 13 by T. E.Kinsey

    Murder on the Rocks is a delightful thirteenth entry in the Lady Hardcastle Mystery series. Lady Emily Hardcastle and her lady’s maid Flo have been invited by their friend JB McIntyre to spend a weekend at his recently renovated Tudor fort on a remote island off the Devonshire coast. The other guests all know each…

  • Red Verdict (Nora Carleton #4) by James Comey

    Red Verdict is a solid fourth entry in the Nora Carleton series. Comey leans hard into the espionage side of things this time around, and it really works. The Russia plot is the engine of this book, and it kept me engaged from the start. The whole setup with the Novichok poisoning at a Manhattan…

  • Murder Like Clockwork by Nicola Whyte

    This is an excellent sequel to 10 Marchfield Lane, and honestly it might be even more fun than the first book. All of our favorite characters are back, but this time the mystery takes us out of the block of flats and into a seemingly unused mansion that Audrey cleans every Thursday. When she discovers a…

  • This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone (The Vacation Mysteries #3) 

    I was pleasantly surprised by how strong this third installment is. Set not long after the events of No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding, Eleanor, her sister Harper, her boyfriend Oliver, and several other characters from the previous books head to an all-inclusive resort in the Bahamas for a murder mystery writers’…

  • March 2026 Reading Recap

    I read 20 books in March. Kin by Tayari Jones was my favorite, followed closely by The Museum Detective and Sandwich. Honestly, I didn’t dislike any of them, some will just stay with me longer than others. I was charmed by the whole Shady Hollow series by Juneau Black. Four ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fifteen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️…

  • February 2026 Reading Recap

    February was a serious reading month because I had series with a lot of books that were readily available from Libby 📚✨ 27 books | 4 novellas | 1 DNF (Valley of the Dolls 💊) | 1 glorious 5-star read AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE 🤩 The Riordanverse ate up 6 slots, Will Trent was half of…

  • January 2026 Reading Recap

    15 🎧audiobooks for January10 🔱 Percy Jackson/Riordanverse2 ⭐️ NetGalley9 re-reads1 📚book club3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ riordanverse #netgalley

  • Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser

    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Lady Tremaine is a brilliant and unexpectedly moving retelling of Cinderella, told from the stepmother’s point of view. This novel begins with the stepmother (Ethel) as a young girl and follows her through two marriages, two widowhoods, and the relentless struggle to secure safety and stability for her children, carrying…

  • December 2025 Reading Recap

    🎧20 (audio) books in December:9 brand new books11 re-reads🐉🌀👁️Sea of Monsters twice because of the Disney Plus show1 five star (The List of Suspicious Things)1 NetGalley review There were clever detectives, suspicious neighbors, emotional gut-punches, comfort re-reads, and more murders than I can count. 🔪🔪🔪

  • The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This is probably my favorite book of the 2025. That might be recency bias talking, or it might be because Harriet the Spy was one of my defining childhood reads. Either way, I can’t remember another book this year that made me feel quite like this one did. Set in…