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It is not the start of the month any more but better late than never! I would love it if people would still like to join in with some group read themes this year. Same rules as last year, you can choose any book of any genre as long as it connects to the theme of that quarter (topic to change every three months).

 

I'd like to immediately suggest the (I feel, appropriate) theme of time for this one (although I'm aware that it will have some overlap with our last historical theme!). So, what do you think? Would anybody like to join me? Do you have any good theme ideas? :) 

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We should!

 

Winter does actually fit my next planned book. I’m not sure what I’d go for after that, I’d have to dig around a bit, but I’ll give my vote to winter :) 

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Winter actually suits the book I'm reading now, which might be why I thought of it as a theme. Happy to go with time though if that wins the vote!

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"A Devon Midwinter Murder" by Stephanie Austin - this is the 7th book in the Dartmoor Murders series ,but the first one I've read, and as it's set over Christmas and into January it fitted in nicely with the first Reading challenge of 2025!  it worked well as a stand-alone, though there's obviously a lot of history, but the main character is Juno Browne, a 30-something woman who lives in the Dartmoor area, runs an antique shop, and a dog-walking business, and does cleaning for a few local people, and also finds time to be an amateur investigator, who is as usual a hindrance to the police, except for one, Dean Collins, with whom she seems to have a mutual if grudgingly respectful relationship - and no other relationship, as he's happily married and she is reeling from a previous romantic break-up.  The story starts when a man is murdered during the Christmas fair, and when Juno is contacted, out of the blue, by an old astrologer friend, it looks like there could be a connection to some earlier deaths.  After another attack, this time at the local wassailing, Juno and the police start to wonder if there's a repeat offender in their midst.  I enjoyed this, it was quite well-written and the wintry atmosphere, and local rural traditions, were nicely described, and Juno comes across as a believable, and slightly cynical but likeable, character.  8/10

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