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This was a very meta modern day retelling of Rebecca with Malibu in place of Manderley. Therefore I really enjoyed it 😊

Fifteen books for February, plus I re-listened to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to prepare for Sunrise on the Reaping on 3/18. I finally got caught up on all the current Kay Scarpetta books, even though they got harder to read towards the end. Favorite: Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own GraveLeast favorite: Dust

Think Jurassic Park but it’s not only dinosaurs that have been resurrected. 🦣🦖🦕🦥🧟‍♂️ The book begins with a (pregnant) newlywed couple being murdered inside a fancy resort. The resort has managed to clone wooly mammoths and other extinct species. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is brought in to investigate and things get weird… I think…

23 books for February – the picture is sorted from most liked at the top to least liked at the bottom Ripley’s Game (Ripley, #3) by Patricia HighsmithFirst Lie Wins by Ashley ElstonThe Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1) by Nancy SpringerThe Lola Quartet by Emily St. John MandelTwenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley TateThe…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dr Nell Ward, our favorite ecologist, is in Ireland for the wedding of her friend Conor when a body is discovered in the nearby bog. The chemistry of the bogs preserves bodies for an extremely long time. Some bodies discovered there are over 2000 years old 😱, and have been sort of mummified by…

Stop what you’re doing and listen to this audiobook for a very funny story about sentient cats and dolphins and super villains.

Finlay & Vero are going on a road trip! And bring the kids, the ex-husband and Finlay’s mom 😱. Antics ensue (of course). I thought the funniest parts were when Finlay was talking to her agent. For some reason I always picture Joey Tribbiani’s agent Estelle 😃 when she’s speaking to her. I like how…

This delightful locked room mystery is set in the 1920s in the Cotswolds. The amatuer detective is Arbuthnot “Arbie” Smith along with his helper Val. Arbie has become famous recently for writing a book called A Gentleman’s Guide to Ghost-Hunting, and is therefore requested to keep watch at a nearby home where unusual things have…

17 for January. Last year by this time I had already listened to over 30 books because I had just discovered the Agatha Raisin series and I could do almost 2 per day at 2x speed. I’m not trying to keep up with last year’s numbers just trying to show that it’s all relative and…

My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads of 2023 All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. CosbyHappiness Falls by Angie KimTom Lake by Ann PatchettTurtles All the Way Down by John GreenPaper Towns by John GreenThe Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura TremaineThe Whalebone Theatre by Joanna QuinnThe Violin Conspiracy by Brendan SlocumbThe Book of Goose by…