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Yesterday arvo I laid at the beach with a travel mug of wine and read this. Not hooked yet but I will keep trying.

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Thank you so much @BarkingMadRun for my #jolabokaflodswap 😊❤️
We love hershey miniatures here and can‘t wait to start this one!
Thanks to @MaleficentBookDragon for organizing one of my favorite Litsy swaps!!!
Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄🎅🏻❤️

Despite an intriguing start, I didn‘t love this one as much as The Scholar, which was great. But once I settled into the story it kept my interest. Cormac Reilly is a great character for a detective series. And Peter, a secondary character in the previous book, took more spotlight in this one so there were a few cases happening at once. I‘m interested to see where this series goes now. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator is great.

I didn‘t like this one quite as much as the previous two, but I still love the characters and the style. The politics and in-fighting in this one just made me too mad to fully enjoy it. I still look forward to more in the series though!

Another “unputdownable” crime novel that continues the story of Irish Detective Cormac Reilly.
Imagine this ..it‘s really cold, a child is kidnapped, several strange deaths have occurred in a small Irish village and throw in some police corruption..this is a great series...I will be waiting for the next instalment 😍
#crimefiction

Finished the third book in the Cormac Reilly series in a few hours. Go me! It‘s not in my top three crime fiction series, but they‘re still a good read, especially as she‘s an expat Irish now living in Perth. If you can find it, I highly recommend her Facebook live chat with Karin Slaughter, it was like watching gossiping crime buffs🔪After a debacle involving a missing girl & a dead suspect, Cormac is caught up in a drugs & corruption scandal.

Early on I was thinking I wasn't in the right frame of mind to deal with this subject matter and I was about to bail, but I decided to press on to the 100 page mark and I'm very glad I did. The story veered away into something I was much more comfortable with. It's a real page turner, great characters, lots of strands to the mystery and plenty of twists and turns. Also much better written than a lot of these sorts of books. #BookspinBingo

I think Goodreads' algorithm broke...?? 🤣🤣🤣

(The Good Turn is the third installment in an excellent gritty Irish mystery series. I had to take a break from it, because I can't handle the intensity right now... and Goodreads helpfully suggested Ivy and Bean instead?)

Made a fair bit of progress on this #audiobook this week #aussieauthors #awwc

Forgot to take a pic on my audio walk yesterday morning but here is 1 from our evening beach walk. The weather here has been gorgeous these Easter hols. The book has grabbed me straight away. The child in the story is called Matilda & that‘s my Tilly on the left. She is 9 & only likes school as it‘s a way of spending time with her friends. She loves animals & once tried to resuscitate a long dead lizard by blowing into its mouth with a straw! 🤮

Currently reading ~ The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
Currently eating ~ Hot Cross Bun by Me

My concentration not the best right now so this took me a while to read. I enjoyed it. Still think her first is the best. I enjoyed the development of her main characters and look forward to the next book. Long may she write this series.
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@MrsMalaprop

Bk2 in my #FebruaryBookHaul is the 3rd in the Cormac Reilly series, and is another signed book. Set in Galway, Ireland, Detective Reilly is dealing with enemies at work & problems are home. Then he has to work a child abduction with a severely understaffed team and things go from bad to worse in a heartbeat. I loved the first two books and this one has good reviews and is turning into another must read like Karin Slaughter & Co.

Long weekend shopping. Added to my TBR bookshelf. Looking forward to all of them. All Aussie residents too. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺