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March 24, 2023
- Mismatched sleuths unravel an international plot (Bookends) David Lagercrantz would be best known to Canadian readers as the author who undertook to write the final three books of the Millennium series, which was created by the late Steig Larsson, who wrote the first three books.
- Doug Pet Of The Week
March 17, 2023
- A complicated and surprising series of cases (Bookends) I came to this book having enjoyed the Netflix mini-series based on Slaughter’s book Pieces of Her,
- Private Pet Of The Week
March 10, 2023
- A weekend murder mystery with many suspects (Bookends) Vikki Delany has been to the Yukon a few times and might be best known here for a series of four Gold Rush-era murder mysteries featuring Fiona MacGillivray as the owner of the Savoy Saloon and Dance Hall.
- Misty Pet Of The Week
March 3, 2023
- Genealogy helps to solve a mystery (Bookends) This book is a sequel to the oddly-named The Boy in the Woods, which I reviewed here in early January.
- Jax Pet Of The Week
February 24, 2023
- Aphrodite Pet Of The Week
- Adventures in time travel and murder (Bookends) I’ve read half a dozen of Gibson’s earlier books, but he’d kind of fallen off my radar.
February 17, 2023
- Bono: 40 songs describe one story (Bookends) There seems to be a general consensus in the press coverage that Bono (born as Paul David Hewson) wrote this book himself,
- Hogwarts Litter Pet Of The Week
February 10, 2023
- Creating is harder than destroying (Bookends) According to the author, this sequel to Mistborn: The Final Empire might not have been written if the first book hadn’t worked out, so he planned the first one so that it could stand alone, but have enough loose ends to allow for a sequel.
- BROCCOLI and CAULIFLOWER Pet Of The Week
February 3, 2023
- Mayhem unfolds at the top of the world (Bookends) If reading a great deal about mountain climbing does not appeal to you, stay away from this book.
- Bronx Pet Of The Week
January 27, 2023
- Reacher breaks into a prison to expose a murder (Bookends) No Plan B is the third of the transitional Jack Reacher novels co-written by “Lee Child” and his brother “Andrew Child”, as Lee, whose actual name is James Grant, moves toward handing the baton completely over to his brother, Andrew Grant.
- Sally Pet Of The Week
January 20, 2023
- The search for the missing Mercy continues (Bookends) Prolific authors often have more than one project under way, and sometimes it works out that they cross over. This is the case with this book.
- Gus Gus and Bear Pet Of The Week