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Savage Cut - Jo Dereske

 

Ruby Crane returns home to a small town in Michigan with her daughter, who's recovering from a car accident. Living an isolated existence in a small family cabin in the woods, she gets drawn into a crime involving the local Forestry industry. A bit clunky at first, but the characters really shine and there's a clever mystery too. :)

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I gave up on the 2nd Gourmet detective book in the end ; while I liked listening to the narrator, the book really wasn`t going anywhere and I got fed up of the way the women kept being described. And then the author made allusions to Fu Manchu when he was talking about a Chinese character.:rolleyes: I`ll stick to the films ; they`re fluff but entertaining fluff. :)

 

I`m now halfway through the 12th Wicked Witches of the Midwest book, a Breath of Witchy Air ( Amanda M Lee ) - enjoying it so far. :D 

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A Breath of Witchy Air - Amanda M Lee

 

The Winchester Witches are back for another mystery. Yay ! It's Winter and a beer delivery truck crashes in Hemlock Grove, leading Bay to cover the event for the paper, and Aunt Tillie to rush to the scene to sample the free beer. While taking photos, Bay falls over something in the snow...and the something turns out to be a body. There's an intriguing mystery and lots of funny lines, in a particularly good Witchy mystery with some interesting developments for Bay. :)

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16 hours ago, Little Pixie said:

I gave up on the 2nd Gourmet detective book in the end ; while I liked listening to the narrator, the book really wasn`t going anywhere and I got fed up of the way the women kept being described. And then the author made allusions to Fu Manchu when he was talking about a Chinese character.:rolleyes: I`ll stick to the films ; they`re fluff but entertaining fluff. :)

 

I hope you like the films more :).

 

9 hours ago, Little Pixie said:

A Breath of Witchy Air - Amanda M Lee

 

The Winchester Witches are back for another mystery. Yay ! It's Winter and a beer delivery truck crashes in Hemlock Grove, leading Bay to cover the event for the paper, and Aunt Tillie to rush to the scene to sample the free beer. While taking photos, Bay falls over something in the snow...and the something turns out to be a body. There's an intriguing mystery and lots of funny lines, in a particularly good Witchy mystery with some interesting developments for Bay. :)

 

I'm glad you enjoyed the newest Wicked Witches mystery :D!

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16 minutes ago, Hayley said:

I love the cover of 'A Hiss Before Dying' :lol: very cute.

 

Wish You Were Here ( Book 1 in the Mrs Murphy series ) - the books have sweet illustrations too, if you take a peek at the excerpt. :wub:

 

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These are great, I would love to have room for that many books! They all seem to have incredibly high ceilings though

 

That site has lots of good storage ideas ; I saw one suggestion of storing books in the `knee space` under a desk, which did make me realise that I very rarely sit at my desk and could probably squirrel away quite a few books that way. :)

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I see you bought a copy of Talking as Fast as I Can! I hope you will like it!! :D You will understand my signature once you've read a certain chapter :D 

I also see you've bought Please Ignore Vera Dietz. It's been on my wishlist for a while. I don't know where I learned of the novel but I hope to read it some day. I hope you'll like it! I'm keeping my eyes open for your review, should you get to it sooner rather than later :D

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13 hours ago, frankie said:

I also see you've bought Please Ignore Vera Dietz. It's been on my wishlist for a while. I don't know where I learned of the novel but I hope to read it some day. I hope you'll like it! I'm keeping my eyes open for your review, should you get to it sooner rather than later :D

 

It might have been me? At least, I wrote a review on it a while ago when I had read it :). Maybe you learned of it somewhere else though, that's also possible!

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On 30/06/2018 at 9:22 PM, frankie said:

I see you bought a copy of Talking as Fast as I Can! I hope you will like it!! :D You will understand my signature once you've read a certain chapter :D 

I also see you've bought Please Ignore Vera Dietz. It's been on my wishlist for a while. I don't know where I learned of the novel but I hope to read it some day. I hope you'll like it! I'm keeping my eyes open for your review, should you get to it sooner rather than later :D

 

Oof, didn`t see these two posts ! :o I had a peek at the Lauren Graham auto-bio when I got it, and it does look good. :D

 

What with all the movement back and forth of my downstairs books due to the pipes leaking, I have no idea which pile the Vera Dietz book is in now, or many of my other books. It`s entirely possible that I`ll find it soon. Erm, also it`s entirely possible it`ll turn up two years from now. ;)

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On 01/07/2018 at 10:51 AM, Athena said:

 

It might have been me? At least, I wrote a review on it a while ago when I had read it :). Maybe you learned of it somewhere else though, that's also possible!

 

Yes - that`s where I saw it - maybe Frankie did too. :)

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A list of the Books I read on a 3-month Kindle Unlimited Thingy :

 

( I`ve starred the Books which I would recommend ).

 

74   Witchy tales - Amanda M Lee *

75   A Witch in Time - Amanda M Lee *

 

April

 

76   Thistle While you Work - Amanda M Lee *

77   Landon Calling - Amanda M Lee*

78   Make a Witch - Amanda M Lee*

79   A Witchmas Carol - Amanda M Lee*

80   All My Witches - Amanda M Lee*

81   The Bigfoot Blunder - Amanda M Lee*

82   I Dream of Twila - Amanda M Lee*

83   How Aunt Tillie stole Christmas - Amanda M Lee*

84   The Disappearance of Mavis Woodstock - Rosalind Burgess & Patricia Obermeier Neuman*

85   The Murder of Susan Reed - Rosalind Burgess & Patricia Obermeier Neuman*

86   Death in Door County - Rosalind Burgess & Patricia Obermeier Neuman*

87   Unhappy Hooligan - Stuart palmer

88   The Gourmet Detective - Peter King

89   Savage Cut - Jo Dereske*

90   Rook Takes Night - Stuart Palmer

 

 

May

 

91    A Breath of Witchy Air - Amanda M Lee*

92   Deadmistress - Carole B Shmurak*

93   Death by Committee - Carole B Shmurak*

94   Death at Hilliard High - carole B Shmurak*

95   Most Likely to Murder - Carole B Shmurak*

96   The Cherry BVlossom Murder - Fran Pickering*

97   The Tokyo Karaoke Murder - Fran Pickering*

98   The Haiku Murder - Fran Pickering*

99   Blood on the Tracks. ed. by Martin Rfwards

100   The Bullet Train Murder - Fran Pickering*

101   The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji*

102   Time at the Top - Edward Ormondroyd*

103   All in Good Time - Edward Ormondroyd*

104   Portraits of the Forsaken - EE Holmes*

105   The Man who died laughing - David handler*

106   The man who lived by Night - David Handler*

107   The man who would be F Scott Fitzgerald - David handler*

 

 

June

 

108   The Woman who fell from Grace - David Handler*

109   The Boy who never grew up - David Handler*

110   The man who cancelled himself - David handler*

111   The girl who ran off with Daddy - David Handler*

112   The Museum of Literary Souls - John Connolly*

113   The Man who loved women to death - David Handler*

114   Appleby`s End - Michael Innes

115   A Night of Errors - Michael Innes

116   Omit Flowers - Stuart Palmer

117   The Lone Sentinel - Jo Dereske*

118   The King of Bones and Ashes - JD Horn

119   The Paper Magician - Charlie N Holmberg*

120   The Glass Magician - Charlie N Holmberg*

121   The Fugitive King - Sarah R Shaber*

122   Dead Heading - Catherine Aird

123   Losing Ground - Catherine Aird

124   A Time of Mourning - Christobel kent*

125   Four Short Stories - Sarah R Shaber*

126   The Roman Hat Mystery - Ellery Queen

127   The Moai island Puzzle - Alice Arisugawa*

128   In the Land of the Crane - Linda Vine

129   The Ginza Ghost - Keikichi Osaka*

130   Past Tense- Catherine Aird

131   The Master Magician - Charlie N Holmberg*

132   The Plastic Magician - Charlie N Holmberg*

133   Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet - Charlie N Holmberg*

134   The Fifth Doll - Charlie N Holmberg*

135   Followed by Frost - Charlie N Holmberg*

136   Death in the Dark - Stacey Bishop

137   The Bug Funeral - Sarah R Shaber*

138   Go - Kazuki Kaneshiro*

139   The Family Vault - Charlotte MacLeod*

140   The Archivist - Christy Sloan*

141   The Withdrawing Room - Charlotte MacLeod*

142   The Palace Guard - Charlotte MacLeod*

143   The Bilbao Looking Glass - Charlotte MacLeod*

144   The Convivial Codfish - Charlotte MacLeod*

145   The Plain Old Man - Charlotte MacLeod*

146   The Recycled Citizen - Charlotte MacLeod*

147   The Silver Ghost - Charlotte MacLeod*

148   The Gladstone bag - Charlotte MacLeod*

149   The Resurrection man - Charlotte MacLeod*

150   The Odd Job - Charlotte MacLeod*

151   The Balloon Man - Charlotte MacLeod*

152   Rest You Merry - Charlotte MacLeod*

153   The Luck Runs Out - Charlotte MacLeod*

154   Wrack and Rune - Charlotte MacLeod*

155   The Curse of the Giant Hogweed - Charlotte MacLeod*

156   Vane Pursuit - Charlotte MacLeod*

157   An Owl Too many - Charlotte MacLeod*

158   Something in the Water - Charlotte MacLeod*

159   Exit the Milkman - Charlotte MacLeod*

160   A pint of Murder - Charlotte MacLeod

161   Murder Goes Mumming - Charlotte MacLeod

    

 

July

 

162   Trouble in the Brasses - Charlotte MacLeod

163   A Dismal Thing to Do - Charlotte MacLeod

164   The Wrong Rite - Charlotte MacLeod

165   The Question of the Missing Head - EJ Copperman*

166   Something the Cat Dragged in - Charlotte MacLeod*

167   The Corpse in Oozak`s Pond - Charlotte MacLeod*

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Particular favourites ( I`ve picked the first of the series, if it isn`t a standalone ) :

 

The Disappearance of Mavis Woodstock - Rosalind Burgess & Patricia Obermeier Neuman

The Tokyo Karaoke Murder - Fran Pickering

The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji

The Man who died laughing - David Handler

The Paper Magician - Charlie N Holmberg

Followed by Frost - Charlie N Holmberg

A Time of Mourning - Christobel Kent

The Family Vault - Charlotte MacLeod

Rest You Merry - Charlotte MacLeod

Go - Kazuki Kaneshiro

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Wow, you read a lot :o!! You definitely made good use of the 3-month Kindle Unlimited :D. I'm at 160 books read :P. Awesome that there are many that you recommend :D!

 

14 hours ago, Little Pixie said:

Particular favourites ( I`ve picked the first of the series, if it isn`t a standalone ) :

 

The Disappearance of Mavis Woodstock - Rosalind Burgess & Patricia Obermeier Neuman

The Tokyo Karaoke Murder - Fran Pickering

The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji

The Man who died laughing - David Handler

The Paper Magician - Charlie N Holmberg

Followed by Frost - Charlie N Holmberg

A Time of Mourning - Christobel Kent

The Family Vault - Charlotte MacLeod

Rest You Merry - Charlotte MacLeod

Go - Kazuki Kaneshiro

:)

 

I have the top one on my TBR (thanks to you for alerting me to the free deals :)!). I plan to buy Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro (as per your recommendation :)), the paperback comes out near the end of August. I'll probably pre-order it a little while before that date.

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5 hours ago, Athena said:

Wow, you read a lot :o!! You definitely made good use of the 3-month Kindle Unlimited :D. I'm at 160 books read :P. Awesome that there are many that you recommend :D!

I have the top one on my TBR (thanks to you for alerting me to the free deals :)!). I plan to buy Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro (as per your recommendation :)), the paperback comes out near the end of August. I'll probably pre-order it a little while before that date.

 

Yes ! I found plenty of goodies. :D

 

I think you`ll get ahead of me with `books read ` soon, cos I`ll be catching up with newspapers and magazines. ;)

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