Joy Ellis – Cannonball Read 17

A new UK crime series

Beware the Past (DCI Matt Ballard #1) by Joy Ellis

July 28, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Somehow I got myself into another series! This happens to me a lot. I feel like it might’ve been a Kindle First though? I’m not sure. It could’ve also been a “you’ve read Joy Ellis books before, so you might like this one” too. Who knows? I have so many books on my TBR list, so it’s hard to remember where they all came from! Anyway, it’s right up my alley. It’s a British detective (or whatever they’re called – DCI, DI… I can’t keep […]

Just… so many cops

The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

October 12, 2021 by postcardsandbooks Leave a Comment

I’ve been looking for a book with a landscape on the cover for such a long time. And since it’s October and I was in the mood for spooky reads, I thought I couldn’t go wrong with a thriller. How hard could it be to find? I’m honestly amazed that I didn’t give up on what appeared to be a fool’s errand. Alas, NetGalley came to my rescue. The Night Thief is a procedural crime book, which will be out on November 18th, and I got a […]

A pretty good kidnapping / underground sex club / family drama murder mystery

January 22, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So this is book two of a series I started at book three. I finished books three and one in CBR9, so I might as well start out CBR10 with the middle of a series! That’s just how I roll… I continued on with this series because I like the main characters. I probably said that in my reviews for the other two books too, but it’s true. They’re smart, intuitive, human cops. They make mistakes sometimes, but they’re usually right when they trust their […]

What would you do if you knew your mother was a murderer? Get all murdery?

December 31, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Ok so this was book one in a series that I of course started at book three! I liked the characters from boom three, so I decided to start the series from the beginning. So far, I think there are three or four books. Our intrepid British detectives are faced with a gruesome murder that looks a lot like one committed a few decades ago. Then a man comes forward claiming to have committed the murder, and he also believes he’s the son of […]

I did it again – started a series at Book 3!!!

December 19, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So if you read my review that I just posted (#58 – somehow I didn’t catch that this one was #57, leave me alone, it’s almost Christmas), you’ll know that I have a tendency to start series at number two or number three. I don’t know why, I guess books just catch my eye, and I don’t know they’re series until it’s too late. This one is book three in the DI Jackman and DS Evans series. I found out this was a series when […]

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