Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More Murders or Not and some Thursday Club hook-ups and hang-ups

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

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I missed episode two of the Thursday Murder Club, but I don’t think it caused me too much issue with following The Bullet That Missed (book 3). Same general gang but it seems like most everyone who was single in book 1 is pairing off in book 3, and nearly everyone has some big secret they don’t tell the others. I’ve also noticed there seems to be this emphasis on a lower level bad guy/gal turning good, or at least helpful. IT’s the secret-keeping that […]

Give Me All the Septuagenarians Solving Murders Books, NOW!!

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

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The thing about me is that my entire personality has been pretty much shaped by the 80’s tv shows that I preferred as a child, and those shows were Murder She Wrote and Columbo.  I can be found attempting to chase those highs I felt watching them as a kid (and now in blurry reruns as an adult) by watching the terrible (yet highly watchable) Hallmark Mysteries channel.  The glaring difference though with the murder shows and movies on that channel is that the sleuths […]

Murder, Magic, Mystery, and Maud’s f*ck lessons

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

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Murder on a trans-oceanic voyage? Magic probably involved? Somewhat sheltered aristocratic girl and a an actress teaming up (in more ways than one)? Sounds like a fine Galentine’s read to me. I have to admit, I liked the first volume of this series, but didn’t totally love it. I almost liked this one better; strange as it sounds, it’s almost more realistic, in spite of the ghosts and magic that crop up off and on the entire time. I think the predetermined timeframe of there’s […]

The Title is Slightly Too Accurate

Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

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I’m in two minds about this one; on the one hand the characters and the mystery are good, but on the other the ending feels rushed and certain important parts of the world feel a little underdeveloped. That said, in general Even Though I Knew the End was a fun, fast read. In a world that resembles  Dashiell Hamnet if he wrote vaguely Christian supernatural detectives, Helen is a former rising start in the magic world, cast out when she tried to summon a demon […]

Magic Murder and a Bunny Scooby Doo

Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian

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An illusionist from a family of magicians under a generational curse has to come home is disgrace to her family business of building “magic” places, as in hidden staircases and doors, or basically every house or building you’ve ever seen on Scooby Doo. That’s the beginning scenario of Under Lock & Skeleton Key; Tempet Raj has a lot to deal with at the start of the story having to come home to, after an accident may have ruined her Las Vegas stage career, she needs […]

Murder and a Fulfilling Retirement

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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The Thursday Murder Club has been on my radar off and on for a while; finally, another Cannonballer’s review of a sequel reminded me and coincided with a random bookstore coupon (in-store only), so I went shopping. This is probably what Only Murders in the Building must be like in book form; I don’t have the streaming service required, but I’m not too sad about that anymore. Basically, the premise is a group of residents of a retirement home in rural-ish England get together to […]



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