Author: Camilla Lackberg

This book and a couple of others that I really want to read have been sitting on top of the bookcase in the hallway for ages. I was walking down the hall at some point when I was ready to start a new book and picked it up.

There is something about those Scandinavian writers (Jo Nesbø, Stieg Larsson) that really know what they are doing when it comes to writing mysteries. This author is from Sweden and I put her right up there with the best of them.

There are a lot of characters in the book and I often had to pause to remember what the relationships were between characters. It wasn’t until the last chapter that I found out “who done it” and what was going on. And then, on the last two pages there was another big twist. Although you might be tempted to read from the back before you get there, don’t!

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Author: Holly Tierney-Bedord

How many generations of women can you fit into one book? This one follows periods of time in the lives of four generations of women either living in or from Sweet Hollow, Louisiana.

Jumping around between time periods and each of the women’s stories made me wish for a more linear narrative but I felt I got a sense of each of the main characters. New characters popped up throughout the book and it often took awhile before you found out where they fit into the overall story.

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Author: Ann Cleeves

This is the first book in the Shetland series, although it isn’t the first Shetland book I’ve read. It is also the basis of the first Shetland series that we’ve seen on Netflix.

This book introduces the entire crew, as well as the elusive woman who will become Perez’s wife. I say elusive because she didn’t appear in any of the Netflix shows and I know at some point she is murdered. I’ll keep reading until I find some answers.

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Author: Heather O’Neill

Pierrot and Rose are orphans who were housed at the same orphanage in Montreal. They each have a special talent for entertaining and as they grow up they fall in love.

When they leave the system they lose touch with one another but never forget their love. After several years they reconnect and go on to big things in the entertainment (and drug) industry.

Although the author is Canadian and has won a number of awards I can’t say that I enjoyed this book.

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