What Fiction are you reading this week, June 19, 2022?

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It's Father's Day. Pull up a comfy chair, a good book, and have a great day!


Reading Razzmatazz, Christopher Moore's latest. In this madcap tale of intrigue, and dragons, Moore revisits 1947 San Francisco and the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars from his hilarious 2018 novel, Noir. Lots of laughs.

Listening to The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. That sounds like a James Bond novel but it's actually the second in the Thursday Murder Club series. Very clever and often laugh-out-loud funny.

Hope you can find something to laugh about on your bookshelf this week. Enjoy your Juneteenth holiday.

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1. "White Nights in Split Town City"

By Annie DeWitt. Not bad.

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2. Sounds good.

Author Annie DeWitt is a fiction writer, essayist, and critic. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts. She currently pens a bimonthly nonfiction column about art, literature, film and criticism called "Various Paradigms."

[The King of Prussia]

3. "Carrion Comfort" by Aline Templeton

A thriller set in the north of Scotland. Read a couple of mysteries earlier in the week - "The Sea Mystery" by Freeman Wills Crofts - a good read but the ending was a little ridiculous. Also "Wycliffe and the Redhead" by W.J. Burley - set in a part of Cornwall near where I used to live. Enjoyed it.

In the wider world, Covid is back. I just got "pinged" - which means I've been in close contact with someone who tested positive. We'll have to see what happens next.

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4. Oh dear

I certainly hope you don't get it but if you do then it should be only mildly annoying. I have read that sooner or later, we're all going to get it. Just like the flu. So it's important to keep up the on the vaccinations.

Aline Templeton looks like a really good cozy author. I shall be looking for her books. And Burley looks pretty good, as well. Lots of books, many involving cats. We like cats.

Stay well.

[SheltieLover]

5. Need a new humorous cozy series!

Finishing up Ellery Adams' work, then nothing on the tbr list.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. The Godmothers by Fern Michaels

another of her great series.

Dead End Job Mysteries. Elaine Viets. There are 13 of these.
I especially love the supporting cast

Pineapple Wars by Amy Van Zant
Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series!

If you have not read Michael Faricy, his books are very funny. The main character will make you think of a male version of Stephanie Plum.

The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries by Heather Haven. I loved these books!
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

[SheltieLover]

11. Ty soooo much!

You've quelled my anxiety greatly!

Much appreciated!

[SheltieLover]

17. Currently reading The Scoop

Love it! Ty!

The Godmothers are the only ones you so graciously shared about that my library has.

It's really refreshing to read about something other than murder! Not much out there in the white collar crime genre.

Ty again!

[CozyMystery]

9. I suggest Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series. NT

[SheltieLover]

12. Loved them!

Will resort to a 2nd re-read if library doesn't have the others suggested! I read so much, buying books would be like a 2nd mortgage.

Ty very much!

[The King of Prussia]

10. Some suggestions

L.C. Tyler's "Herring" books are very silly. Hannah Dennison writes good stuff, and very much in the tradition of M.C. Beaton.

[SheltieLover]

13. Tyvm!

Will givs the library a look for ebooks.

I read so much, I don't buy books. At 1 / day, it would be like a 2nd mortgage!

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Finally finished Pumped for Murder, # 10 in Dead End Job Mysteries

I did not do much reading this week. We have been bingeing Murdock Mysteries and 800 WOrds on Acorn, and my obsession with the Van Cliburn Piano Competition have gotten in the way of my reading.

PUMPED FOR MURDER
Newly married, Helen can’t wait to life anew—and start an agency with her PI hubby, Phil. Her penchant for working dead-end jobs comes in handy when they’re hired to look into a fitness fanatic who may be cheating on his wife. Taking a receptionist job at their subject’s gym, Helen soon discovers that she has to start pumping iron if she wants to keep an eye on the weight-lifting lothario. With her past finally behind her, Helen is all set to start sleuthing for real. But if she wants to make a living of it, she’s going to have to do some heavy lifting…

I am going to take a break from series, and read a couple of stand alones which grabbed me from the get go when I read the sample.

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8. Cool

Lots of great info. As always, thank you.

[SheltieLover]

14. Sounds good.

Ty for sharing!

[hippywife]

15. Just finished Paris by Edward Rutherfurd

and enjoyed it very much.

https://www.edwardrutherfurd.com/paris.html

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16. Mmmm

Sounds lovely. And long: over 800 pages.

From the author, Rutherford, the grand master of the historical novel, comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light. "The Novel wonderfully illuminates hundreds of years in the City of Light and Love and brings the sights, scents, and tastes of Paris to sumptuous life."