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It’s been a quiet week here. If I hadn’t been reading a historical mystery, I would have had a review yesterday. But, it’s not easy reading, so I haven’t even finished. Because it’s been quiet (no complaints!), I don’t have anything to talk about, weather or happenings. You can tell us what’s been happening in your life, and I’ll dive right into books.

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I am saving most of Kevin Tipple’s reviews for next week when I’ll need a few since I’m going to visit a friend. But, he sent this one featuring a new-to-me author, Kasey Lansdale. Since I just started a debut historical mystery, and historicals take me longer to read, I pounced on First Chance. Thank you for sharing your review, Kevin.


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In all my years reading crime fiction, I don’t think I’ve ever cried before for the killer. I felt just as Eve Dallas did in J.D. Robb’s sixty-third In Death book, Fury in Death. I felt sorry for the killer, and I was angry at the victims. If you read the book, I challenge you to feel any other way.

In September 2061, Lt. Eve Dallas an...


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Fighting Edge may be my favorite of Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek K-9 mysteries. Although the story becomes personal to Timber Creek K-9 officer, Deputy Mattie Walker, this one is a more straightforward police procedural than some of the other stories in the series. It can also be read as a standalone, without having to know Mattie’s family b...


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A Treacherous Tale is the second in Elizabeth Penney’s Cambridge Bookshop series. While I want to like this series featuring an American who joins her mother and Aunt Violet to run the family bookstore in Cambridge, England, I’m afraid I’m not a fan of the female main character, Molly Kimball. I’ll stick with one of Penney’s other series, the Rav...


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