March 2021 ~ What are you reading?

Thread for the new month.

I finally got to one of the Christmas mysteries I had wanted to read this year - A Highland Christmas by M. C. Beaton. It only took a few hours and was thoroughly charming!

I've only read one other in the series but plan on reading more. (I've watched the TV series and enjoyed its goofiness.) I'm not usually a big fan of cozy mysteries, but the books are sweet in a non-saccharin way and I love the Scottish location.

Just finished The Searcher by Tana French. While it's definitely not her best, I did enjoy it.

I finished A Man's Head by Simenon which was an enjoyable & fast read. 4*

Back with Jack Reacher getting himself in new troubles in Echo Burning.

>3 ted74ca: I agree it's not her best but I did like it quite a bit. But then, I liked Witch Elm and I lot of people I know didn't care for it, either.

I'm reading The Yield by Tara June Winch.

Just finished The Sixth Idea by PJ Tracy. It's #7 in the Monkeewrench series. I love this series.

I started The Searcher around the same time as you finished, ted74ca - you're right, it isn't exactly gripping, but it remains interesting.

I've just begun A Fatal Lie the latest in Charles Todd's excellent Ian Rutledge series.

Started Nothing Stays Buried by PJ Tracy. It's #8 in the Monkeewrench series.

Started Ice Cold Heart by PJ Tracy.

>11 Raspberrymocha: >12 Raspberrymocha: I've been enjoying that series!

I've just finished The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas, which is apparently short for Frederique, if not a complete nom de plume. It's the first in a series about a somewhat odd police commissioner in Paris.

>13 Jim53: Vargas can be extremely funny if her style works for you :)

OK. So I finished The Searcher and it's so opaque I can't quite figure out what happened. The nearest I can figure is that the local farmers are buying chemicals ostensibly for their farming, but selling them to the local meth manufacturers. Is that is or am I missing something? The death at the heart of the story just seems to be a big nothing.

I'm reading Gathering Dark by Candice Fox and Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza.

Again, a tad disappointed after reading a book by another one of my favourite authors. This time it was A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin. Not bad, just not his best.

added A Deadly Influence by Mike Omer to my reading rotation.

>13 Jim53: It is a great series. Haven't been any more since this one in 2019. Hope she didn't stop writing the series.

Started an ARC False Light by Eric Dezenhall.

>19 Raspberrymocha: It was 2017 in the original - but she is not "a novel a year" writer - there had been 4 years gaps before so who knows...

>15 Bookmarque: Overall, I found The Searcher to be disappointing. My expectations were for a thriller and it wasn’t that.

I am reading 1222 by Anne Holt. I am enjoying it but hadn't realized until after I picked it up that it was #8 in a series. Perhaps I should have started at the beginning of the series though so far I don't feel that I am missing any crucial information.

Yesterday I finished Death on the Way, an Inspector French mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts.

Starting The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte. This author knows how to tell a good story.

I finished Somewhere in the House by Elizabeth Daly - the 10th in the Golden Age Henry Gamadge series. I am really enjoying this little-known American GA series!

Finished The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds by T E Kinsey. Meh.

I much enjoyed my reread of Heyer's 1933 mystery The Unfinished Clue...

I recently started and finished The Benevent Treasure by Patricia Wentworth and am now embarking on a re-read of Rex Stout's Some Buried Caesar in conjunction with a shared read in the Black Orchid group.

I am reading Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny. Every time I read one of her books, I am astounded to remember just how fantastic they are. I'm reading them in order, so I don't run out too soon. I try to only read one or two of them per year, and they are just wonderful!!

Finished A Deadly Influence by Mike Omer. Not a fan when I began the book but it grew on me.

Next into the rotation is Thief River Falls by Brian Freeman.

I just started Charles Todd’s A Pale Horse.

I finished the latest "Vera" novel, The Darkest Evening, in the series by Ann Cleeves. Pretty good, though I did figure out early on who was the murderer.

Just started Wrong Hill to Die On by Donis Casey. Love this gentle mystery series.

Finished Thief River Falls by Brian Freeman. Enjoyed it.

Just starting The Postscript Murders and I’m really looking forward to it.

Just finished Do or Die by Barbara Fradkin. It's a police procedural set in Ottawa. Fradkin has won the Arthur Ellis Award twice for Inspector Green novels.

Added Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz to my rotation.

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