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“Not everyone in our acquaintance needs to be murdered, Veronica. In fact, some people find it preferable to make friends with normal folk.”

A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn

July 10, 2024 by Malin 3 Comments

This is book 9 in an ongoing series, and as such, not the best place to start. Start with A Curious Beginning. Official plot summary (because it’s been too long since I read the book): Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: A Grave Robbery, CBR16, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, murder, mystery, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian

Malin's CBR16 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: A Grave Robbery, CBR16, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, murder, mystery, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian ·
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“We all had tattoos, scars, secrets, and losses. We all wanted to be forgiven.”

Scorched Grace (A Sister Holiday Mystery, #1) by Margot Douaihy

July 8, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 10/30 The ending killed my buzz a little on this one, which up until then had been extremely interesting with arresting imagery (not something I normally care about!) and an extremely unique look at modern religion, from the perspective a queer, chain-smoking, tattooed Catholic nun who was a former punk rocker until traumatic events pushed her to seek solace—as her mother did before her—in a sisterhood of fellow nuns. Plus, there is a mystery here, but honestly, […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: A Sister Holiday Mystery, Gillian Flynn Books, LGBTQIA, Margot Douaihy, mystery, narfna, Religion, Scorched Grace

narfna's CBR16 Review No:44 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: A Sister Holiday Mystery, Gillian Flynn Books, LGBTQIA, Margot Douaihy, mystery, narfna, Religion, Scorched Grace ·
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Thunder Down Under

Lapse by Sarah Thornton

July 7, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR16Bingo: scandal. The main character is on the run to this small town after a fiasco in her past life and has to deal with a fiasco in her current one.  I grabbed this one maybe because of Ted Lasso? I don’t remember but I feel like I read somewhere that this was pitched as a Ted Lasso-esque coach solving a mystery. That’s not really the case though. Clementine Jones, though she is similarly running from her past, is not the […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Aussie football, Australia, cbr16bingo, Clementine Jones, fiasco, Lapse, mystery, Sarah Thornton, scandal, sports

Jake's CBR16 Review No:101 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Aussie football, Australia, cbr16bingo, Clementine Jones, fiasco, Lapse, mystery, Sarah Thornton, scandal, sports ·
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The Unforgiving Desert

Journal of the Dead by Jason Kersten

July 6, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR16 Bingo – Fiasco: David and Raffi’s trip into Rattlesnake Canyon is an utter fiasco from start to finish. When authorities find Raffi Kodikian barely alive four days after he and his best friend David Coughlin got lost in an desert canyon, they make a grim discovery. Raffi claims to have stabbed David to death in a mercy killing, but the police suspect the truth may be darker. It was awkward on my way out of the library with this book, because another patron, intrigued […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adventure, cbr16bingo, friendship, Jason Kersten, mystery, nature, non fiction, survival, true crime

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:77 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adventure, cbr16bingo, friendship, Jason Kersten, mystery, nature, non fiction, survival, true crime ·
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MysterFantsyMance

The Fox Wife: A Novel by Yangsze Choo

July 5, 2024 by ElCicco 3 Comments

Cbr16bingo Smash mystery/fantasy/romance = MysterFantsyMance The Fox Wife is a beautiful novel that combines mystery, fantasy and romance, and even some history. Set in China and Japan in the early 20th century, its main characters deal with the pangs of first love, lost love, obsessive love, and the loss of children against a backdrop of revolution and a world in the grip of major change. Author Yangsze Choo writes at the end of this story about her personal interest in the fox legends of China […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR16, cbr16bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, mystery, Romance, Smash, The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo

ElCicco's CBR16 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, CBR16, cbr16bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, mystery, Romance, Smash, The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo ·
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June 2024 Leftovers

The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City by Adam J. Criblez

Out On The Cutting Edge by Lawrence Block

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nevada by Imogene Binnie

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford Dictionary by Simon Winchester

Exalted by Anna Dorn

July 5, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy Pride to all who celebrate! The First Quarry**** I was disappointed in the quality of the last couple of Quarry novels so I wasn’t expecting much…but this was good. One of his best plots and I really enjoyed it. Could’ve done without the racism. Big believer that you can show the casual racism of the past (1970s) without wallowing in it and the book does that. Otherwise, it’s good. Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City**** Stretching a four star […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports, Suspense Tagged With: #fantasy, #history, Adam J. Criblez, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anna Dorn, astrology, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, crime, dictionary, Exalted, grief, hip-hop, hitman, Imogene Binnie, Kings of the Garden, lawrence block, lewis carroll, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Matthew Scudder, Max Allan Collins, mystery, NBA, Nevada, New York City, New York Knicks, Notes on Grief, Out On the Cutting Edge, Quarry, rap, Simon Winchester, The First Quarry, The Professor and the Madman, trans, true crime

Jake's CBR16 Review No:99 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports, Suspense · Tags: #fantasy, #history, Adam J. Criblez, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anna Dorn, astrology, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, crime, dictionary, Exalted, grief, hip-hop, hitman, Imogene Binnie, Kings of the Garden, lawrence block, lewis carroll, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Matthew Scudder, Max Allan Collins, mystery, NBA, Nevada, New York City, New York Knicks, Notes on Grief, Out On the Cutting Edge, Quarry, rap, Simon Winchester, The First Quarry, The Professor and the Madman, trans, true crime ·
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