Author: Lisa Duffy

A quick but enjoyable read. The ending was predictable but there were some twists and turns along the way.

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Author: Louise Penny

This author was recommended to me by my friend Moreen. Any time we talked books, this is the name that came up. I was at the library one day and found this on the shelf so picked it up.

I had just finished reading a really good mystery and I wasn’t expecting too much from this. I was so wrong!

I renewed my library loan before I started reading as I didn’t expect to be finished before leaving. I was so wrong! I couldn’t put it down.

Not that they are needed, bonus points for being a Canadian author.

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Author: Ann Cleeves

This is the third book of the Shetland series. I was familiar with the story from the Netflix show but I think the television show made a few changes from the original story.

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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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