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Judith's are remnants of people's homes she can't bear to see thrown in a skip.

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I saw an ad on Facebook this week for 'A Box of Stories', essentially £10 for 5 completely random books (all new). I took a chance and ordered them, they arrived today and I'm pleasantly surprised. Don't think I would have picked any of them up from a bookshop but there's only one of them that I don't think I'll read (Girl on the Net - not my cup of tea at all). Not a bad bookhaul really for £10. Happy Christmas to me!! 😊😊😊

I enjoyed this thriller which centred on ghosts from east Germany of the 1980's. Our heroine judith kepler is a cleaner, that is she goes into properties where people have died or been murdered to restore for resale. In one flat a woman appears to have a connection to her past that then links her to a journalist seeking to expose stasi secrets. I njyd the read, albeit a romantic thread was a distraction but I'll definitely look fwd to more by her

Elisabeth Herrmann's spy thriller (translated from German by Bradley Schmidt) has a clever premise that makes great use of East Germany's history and the tricky issues thrown up by reunification but the story itself is clunky, especially the dialogue, and Judith's behaviour never rings true while the romance teased with Kaiserley is tedious and unconvincing, which means that ultimately this is an okay read rather than a great one.

#junemostanticipated #junebookbugs
I'm hesitant to post this as whatever i plan changes either by a visit to the library or my mood when i finish a book. Anyway the tagged book was a library reserve(german crime), one for the boys is another library, the lost europeans i ordered + really looking fwd to, and greengates was a podcast recommend and bizarrely my 1st persephone - happy june reading everyone.