• Book review: The Spotted Dog

    The Spotted Dog – Kerry Greenwood

    Release date: 10 September 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Spotted Dog (Corinna Chapman, #7) blurb: Rising at four o’clock every morning isn’t Corinna Chapman’s favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn starts to feel even harsher when a seemingly disturbed man collapses in her shop. When the man, a…

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    Top 5… books I don't talk about enough

    Good morning bookworms! Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘books I don’t talk about enough’. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics that are coming up! A-HA! I see what’s going on here… Shanah is…

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    Off Tangent Thoughts… while at a bookstore

    Good morning bookworms! Today we are doing another Off Tangent Thoughts (OTT) which was created by Charvi @ Not Just Fiction. This fortnight’s topic is thoughts I have while I’m at a bookstore. I mean… honestly? My thoughts are basically just me screaming internally while I’m at a bookstore, but I’ll try and put some actual words to the process!!…

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    April ’18 book haul

    You know, I genuinely thought that this month would be better than others, but I totally forgot about half of the books I ordered online (mostly preorders) and then I had two in person splurges… One day this will slow down… I mean, it has to, right?! Anyway, we are splitting this into three sections because I (once again) bought…

  • Book review: Dangerous Minds

    Dangerous Minds – Janet Evanovich

    Release date: 20 June 2017 Rating: ★★★★★★★ – 7/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link Dangerous Minds (A Knight and Moon novel, #2) blurb: Monk Wayan Bagus has lost his island of solitude and wants it back. The Pacific island had a mountain, beaches, a rainforest, and a volcano. And now it’s vanished without a trace. Boyishly charming Emerson Knight likes nothing…

  • Book Review: All the Little Liars

    All the Little Liars – Charlaine Harris

    Release date: 4 October 2016 Rating: ★★ – 2/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link All the Little Liars (Aurora Teagarden series #9) blurb: Librarian Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small town: four children, including her fifteen-year-old brother, Phillip, have vanished from the school football field.  More worrying still, a dead body has…

  • Turbo Twenty-Three – Janet Evanovich

    Release date: 15 November 2016 Rating: ★★★★★★★ – 7/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link Turbo Twenty-Three (Stephanie Plum series #23) blurb: Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has been on countless crime scenes, but this is definitely a first.  Her fleeing target has left behind a truck loaded with ice cream and a dead body – frozen solid and covered in chocolate and…

  • Private Delhi – James Patterson

    Release date: 12 January 2017 Rating: ★★★★★★ – 6/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link Private Dehli (Private series #13) blurb: Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed.  But Jack Morgan, global head of the world’s finest investigation agency, needs him back.  Jack is setting up a new office in…

  • Book Review: The Lily Bard Mysteries Omnibus

    The Lily Bard Mysteries – Charlaine Harris

    Release date (book 1): 1 November 2005 Rating: ★★★★★★★ – 7/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link (omnibus) Book Depository link (book 1) Shakespeare’s Landlord (The Lily Bard Mysteries book 1) blurb: Lily Bard has started over in the sleepy little town of Shakespeare, Arkansas.  She’s fiercely protective of her privacy – she’s run away to Shakespeare for a reason, but it’s no one…

  • Stephanie Plum series – Janet Evanovich

    Release date (book 1): 26 August 1994 Rating: ★★★★★★★★ – 8/10 Goodreads link One for the Money (Stephanie Plum book 1) blurb: Stephanie Plum is down on her luck.  She’s lost her job, her car’s on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond company.  If Stephanie can bring…

  • Book review: The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

    The Rook – Daniel O’Malley

    Release date: 11 January 2012 Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★ – 10/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link The Rook (Checquy Files #1) blurb: “Dear you, the body you are wearing used to be mine” A woman awakens in a London park, dripping wet and surrounded by corpses wearing latex gloves.  In her pocket is a letter from her previous self: Rook Thomas, a superpowered…

  • Lizzie Hart mysteries – Caroline Fardig

    Release date (book 1): 11 April 2013 Rating: ★★★★★★ – 6/10 Goodreads link It’s Just a Little Crush (Lizzie Hart book 1) blurb: The sleepy town of Liberty hasn’t seen murder in…well…ever.  Residents are stunned when the body of a young woman is found strangled, and reporters at the Liberty Chronicle are thrilled, rather disturbingly, over the biggest news story to…

  • Curious Minds

    Curious Minds – Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton

    Release date: 16 August 2016 Rating: ★★★★★★★ – 7/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link Curious Minds (Knight and Moon #1) blurb: They couldn’t be less compatible, but they make a great team… Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little-to-no sense of social etiquette.  Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich and (some people might say) handsome. Riley Moon has just graduated…