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  • Loose Lips by Kemper Donovan

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loose Lips
By Kemper Donovan
Ghostwriter Mystery #2What an absolute delight of a sequel to The Busy Body! Kemper Donovan, an avid Agatha Christie fan (and one of my favorite podcasters), seamlessly weaves a charming homage to Death on the Nile while delivering another brilliant mystery. This time, our beloved ghostwriter (writing under the pen name Belle)…

  • January 2025 Reading Recap

    34 😱 for January, made possible by reading through 2 established series that were all available from the library.Only 4 newly published books10 rereads The Kay Scarpetta series started out strong but I’m getting increasingly annoyed with all of the main characters and how they act towards each other and how highly they think of…

  • December 2024 Reading Recap

    27 books (all audiobooks)16 re-readsStill not in the mood for much besides what I already know.Ended up at 251 for the year, which is less than last year but that’s fine. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19) Agatha Christie ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37) Agatha Christie ⭐️…

  • November 2024 Reading Recap

    22 books in November. Still in a bit of a funk so mostly read older mysteries. I returned several new books to the library without even starting them. My favorite of the month was probably the re-listen of Station Eleven. Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) Agatha Christie ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The…

  • October 2024 Reading Recap

    27 books in October which is misleading because 11 were from the Series of Unfortunate Events so were very short. I’m still in a little bit of a reading rut so most (21) were rereads. Hallowe’en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41) Agatha Christie ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  The Christmas Jigsaw Murders (Edie O’Sullivan, #1) Alexandra Benedict ⭐️…

  • The Dark Half by Stephen King

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Creepy sorta precursor to The Outsider. The pen name of an author somehow starts murdering people.

  • The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict

    This is a fun book for anyone who likes cozy mysteries and doing puzzles. It’s told from both the killer’s perspective as well as the detective’s. The killer starts sending puzzle pieces to Edie O’Sullivan on December 1st, which helps her solve the crimes. Her nephew is a DI so she gets inside information on…

  • Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop – Otto Penzler

    This is a fun collection of twelve Christmastime stories written for the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. The requirements to be included in the collection are as follows: be set at Christmastime, involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and be set at least partially in the Mysterious Bookshop. I had a…

  • Horror for Weenies by Emily C. Hughes

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In the past few years I’ve tried to start watching scary movies a little bit more, so this book seemed right up my alley. It takes 25 horror movies starting in 1960 up to 2018 and explains the plot and common scary movie tropes that go along with the film. More importantly though, it…

  • The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 – Penzler

    This collection of stories is more gritty/realistic than my usual favorite type: cozy British person solving a mystery. But it’s still a very good collection of mystery stories that I would recommend any fan of the genre to read. I was super excited that one of the narrators is BJ Harrison, who narrates the Classic…