Author: M. C. Beaton
When I opened my Valentine surprise from the library I was thrilled to see it was a Hamish Macbeth Mystery. I’d heard the name and looked forward to another mystery series from Scotland. But this isn’t one I’ll follow.
There were some murders in the book but it focused mainly on a lonely policewoman and the devious plan she had to persuade Hamish to marry her.
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Author: Thrity Umrigar
The title and the author were both familiar but I could find a record on my website or in Goodreads that I had read the book before. Once I started reading I remembered that I still had a list of books that hadn’t carried over from one website to the other and sure enough I had read it. I loved it just as much this time as I did the first, and I’m excited to read the sequel.
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From my first review:
This book looks at the lives of a middle-class Indian woman and her servant. The difficulties they face in their lives are very different, but the women seem linked by a real friendship. A situation near the end of the book threatens that friendship and we get a glimpse of how status can threaten friendship.
Author: Ann Cleeves
No surprise that I loved this book. I’m familiar with all the characters from previous books I’ve read and the television series. I learned something new in this reading – I always thought Jimmy Perez’s wife had died of natural causes but apparently she was murdered. Now I want to go back in the series and see how that happened. I’ll also be checking out the Shetland series on Netflix; I don’t think this was one of the shows but if it was I want to see it again.
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Author: Heather Balog
On paper this sounded like a good book. I won’t disagree that the story was interesting but before long in the book I had identified a couple of different options for a twist so the ending wasn’t much of a surprise. I read the book on my Kindle and it was almost too much to read past all the poor editing; I wonder if the hard copy was better.
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