What Fiction are you reading this week, June 13, 2021?

[hermetic]

Happy Flag Day


Finished Greenwood. What an ending! Totally surprised me.
Now I am enjoying A Banquet of Consequences, by Elizabeth George. "Full of shocks, intensity, and suspense from the first page to the last...Scotland Yard members Lynley and Havers are under mounting pressure to solve a case both complicated and deeply disturbing."

Listening to The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell, a riveting family drama with a dark mystery at its core. Quite enjoyable although I'm at what feels like it should be the end but it just keeps going on and on. Soon I'll be
moving on to the next Jewell novel, The Girls in the Garden.

What fiction are you enjoying this week?

[SheltieLover]

1. Cat Bearing Gifts a new (to me) Joe Grey!

Delicious! I'd had it on hold at library & they must've bought another e copy.

After this, who knows? Still seeking new cozy series. Week 3.

[hermetic]

8. Stay tuned to this channel

Sooner or later someone is bound to introduce someone new to read.

Glad to hear you finally got that Joe Grey.

[SheltieLover]

10. Ty!

Will do!

[yellowdogintexas]

14. enjoyable cozy series I have found

I love a good series and have found a number of them from Book Bub, Robin Reads, and similar sources (sometimes at little or no cost)

Julie Smith has 2 series based in New Orleans
The Skip Langdon mysteries
and The Talba Wallace series

THere is a third series set in San Francisco
Rebecca Schwartz series.
I love Julie Smith's books!


Annie Szabo Mysteries
The Hummingbird King, The Vanished Priestess & The Red Hot Empress These were a lot of fun, and there is a fourth book pending.

from the end flap: An Amazon Bestseller with one of the most original detective duos in fiction: A freelance journalist and her Gypsy mother-in-law. “Fascinating Gypsy lore, unforgettable characters, and a wicked sense of humor!”— Publisher’s Weekly, starred review. Both books in this set were chosen by Library Journal as one of the TOP FIVE mysteries of the year. Go along for the ride!

Kat Makris Greek Mafia Novels (Alex A King)
Kat Makris was a little girl when her father spun wild and outrageous bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a lawless creature with a penchant for stealing gold and clashing with the gods.

Now Kat is twenty-eight, single, a couch potato in a cube farm, when her father goes missing. Without him, she's alone in the world. Before the police can work their mojo, she herself is abducted by a couple of hoods with crooked noses, and she quickly discovers her father's old stories were true—true crime, that is. Baboulas is an infamous mob boss in Greece, and Baboulas is the one who has Kat holed up in a private plane bound for Greece.


Greek Ghouls

Allie Callas has a normal-ish job: she’s the owner and sole employee of Finders Keepers, a service dedicated to the time-consuming task of finding (and finding out) things on the tiny Greek island of Merope. The fact that she’s been seeing the dead ever since she can remember is incidental. It’s nothing more than a … a … a birthmark on her soul and a pain in her butt.

Except now death is getting personal and the dead are getting bossy. Her best friend (and neighbor) has been murdered, and her ghost is back to tell Allie that the events leading up to her death are hazy (very unhelpful), and that she wants Allie to figure out whodunit.

Allie isn’t a cop, but the wall-banging, hump-happy Detective Leo Samaras is just one floor away. Does he want her help? Nooo … But he wouldn’t mind taking a good, hard look at her bedroom.

With the dead starting to make unreasonable demands on her time, can Allie figure out who killed her friend, without taking a one-way trip to the grave herself? Will she start cursing the day she started seeing ghosts? And where did the hefty ghost cat that has moved into her apartment come from anyway?

FAMILY GHOULS is the first book in the Greek Ghouls series: a comedic mystery set in Greece and steeped in ouzo.
Revenge Series

The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries.
Heather Haven

NOW ALL SEVEN DELICIOUSLY FUNNY DETECTIVE COZIES..!
Lee Alvarez is a ferret. Not the cute, 4-legged kind but the cute 2-legged kind sniffing out dastardly cybercrimes and the occasional murder for Discretionary Inquiries, a family-owned detective agency in the heart of Silicon Valley. This set is for cozy readers who can't get enough of a smart-mouthed woman sleuth out to please her never-had-a-bad-hair-day mother, computer-genius brother, gourmet chef uncle, and energetic orange and white cat, Tugger. Now you can get all seven with one click—a delicious Kindle deal!

“One of the funniest mystery authors around. You won’t be able to put her books down. A must-read 5-star series!" National Best Selling Author, Cindy Sample

I have enjoyed all of these. Have fun finding and reading them

[SheltieLover]

17. These ssound wondeeful!!! 😍

Ty so much for sharing!

[FalloutShelter]

2. Reading Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg

It's sci-fy about the near future. Written in 1967... it describes a future in 1984, where an authoritarian dictatorship ships political dissidents to the Pliocene past(via time portal) of earth, before the formation of the continents as a humane alternative to the death penalty. Could be written today about 2050? Scary.

[hermetic]

6. That does sound pretty scary

Although I can immediately think of a few folks I wouldn't mind shipping to a place like that. Sadly, in this book it's the good guys who are imprisoned there.

[Bayard]

3. Finally got all my books shipped here from CA

Re-reading, "Lisey's Story". Stephen King.

[hermetic]

4. That's good news, getting all your books again

I've never heard of that King book but it sounds typically scary. Facing demons on a nearly fatal journey into the darkness of a husband's imagination.

[Bayard]

9. Yes, but the movers were less than thrilled

[bif]

5. "Likes" by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum and "Paris by the Book"

by Liam Callahan. I rarely read short stories unless they're by Salinger or Updike. This one was pretty good. Just started "Paris". I've read a couple of his other books and he's quite good.

[hermetic]

7. That does sound good

A mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore. A haunting and charming story following one woman's journey as her story is being rewritten, exploring the power of family and the magic that hides within the pages of a book.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. currently reading: Their Frozen Graves by Ruhi Choudhary

2nd in a series. Book 1 is Our Daughters' Graves
The main character is a deeply troubled police detective with
a very complex personal history. However she is very successful at her job

https://www.amazon.com/Their-Frozen-Graves-completely-addictive-ebook/dp/B08LDJ7LV2

[hermetic]

12. These are really new

Their Frozen Graves is getting rave reviews. Addictive, pulse-pounding and packed full of jaw-dropping twists, brilliantly written and filled with tension and suspense...

The first one is a bit confusing. It appears to be called Our Daughters' Bones but it does not show up on the Fiction Database. It probably will pretty soon, though. Ms Choudhary has many fans. I may soon be one myself.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. I got them through Book Bub, Robin Reads

or one of the other free or cheap places. Ordered through Amazon

I probably got them on a 99 cents or free deal.

I am almost finished with Frozen Graves. It's a twister all right

[The King of Prussia]

13. "Sorry for the dead" by Nicola Upson

A fictional detective story, but with the famous author Josephine Tey as the detective. It also features the "Bloomsbury Set" who were noted, amongst other things, for having lots of relationships with each other - regardless of gender or generation. So there's a bewildering number of characters.

It looks like "Freedom Day" is going to be delayed, so my reading marathon will continue.

Feeling very embarrassed. Seeing Johnson alongside Joe Biden is a ashaming to the few of us that aren't jingoistic prats.

[hermetic]

16. I learn such interesting things from your posts

Tey, who is actually Elizabeth MacKintosh, wrote The Daughter of Time which was claimed to be the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. I think we may have read that one a while back.
The Bloomsbury Set I had never heard of. Dorothy Parker said, "they lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles."

I thought it was nice, seeing them together. Sure beats that last meetup we saw. Boris's wife seems like a decent person. Hopefully Biden will be a good influence on him.

Hang in there. Enjoy your reading opportunity. Personally, I think being around bunches of other people is highly overrated.

[zanana1]

18. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman.

It's far from new, but it's an excellent book, delving into people's honest thoughts and emotions. It's also kind of a mystery. It's unusual to read an intelligent and insightful mystery.