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Bk8 of #Scarathlon & Bk3 of #OutstandingOctober #readathon is done! I listened to the audiobook of this thriller/romance & really enjoyed it surprisingly. Eli is accused of murdering his wife & retreats to the family home of Bluff House on Maines coast. But has he put himself in the path of a killer? #WordSearch #BodyCountBingo #LittenListenBingo #PromptMaze #AutumnAtoZ #31x31 #Spookaween #Pointsathon #BookspinBingo 👇 #TeamSlaughter 4,131pts

Well here is the January “assignment“ list. For a month that actually was a low page-count for me, I did make decent progress. Books with one slash have been started but not yet completed. I'm still planning to read these, so we will see what happens when they get mixed in with the February pile. My TBR windowsill shelf is getting full!! 😂

This one was a borderline between straight romance and romantic suspense - when in the midst of a bitter divorce, Eli's soon-to-be-ex-wife is murdered, with Eli as the prime suspect. A year later, the case against him has been dropped, but the actual murderer's identity is unknown, meaning a cloud of guilt still follows Eli everywhere. He comes to stay in the old family home on Whiskey Beach, where he meets Abra, a jill-of-all-trades who should ⬇

I'm in the midst of that first-of-the-year optimism where I start a bunch of books all at once! Besides the tagged book, which I will hopefully be finishing today, I'm working chapter-a-day on five(!) others... the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - The Story Girl (a reread for me, but it's been a really long time since I read it); I'm #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights with the #PemberLittens (and enjoying it more than I did in junior high haha); my ⬇

A little early morning read

It‘s 7.30am Saturday & I finished my book! Another enjoyable crime novel from Roberts, I particularly loved the setting of this. Not just a gorgeous old mansion, but one right on a Massachusetts beach. She has a gift for making her reader feel like they‘re there. Add in a lawyer accused of a murder he didn‘t commit, his free spirit housekeeper & a family mystery and it was perfect. #Scareathlon #TeamSlaughter 3points #PointsTotal-274

Decamped to my library coz the hubby needed sleep, I‘m almost finished this book already. I love stormy seas, I love the smell, the electricity in the air, the spray on my face & the sound of the waves pounding the shore. I don‘t, however, love being in a boat ON that sea!🤢Keeping me company is an @LibrarianRyan original Halloween bookmark & a log fire video on YouTube. #Scareathlon #TeamSlaughter 1point #PointsTotal-271

Hallelujah my headache has eased enough for me to read print! Keeping on theme, both with my #Scareathlon #TeamSlaughter but also with Nora Roberts. The hubs also did another library run for me today & I think there‘s another in that bag. Brace yourselves for #libraryhaul pictures later🙌 Listening to a “Beach Sounds App” while reading this, very atmospheric 1point #PointsTotal-270

Next up after the darker story of Devils Lair, is a lighter mystery/thriller by the queen of that niche genre, Nora Roberts. Eli has run away to Bluff House at Whiskey Beach to escape the gossip & guilt after being accused of the murder of his wife-To-Be. Starting to get his life back, his peace doesn‘t last, an enemy is coming to ruin it all. #Scareathlon #TeamSlaughter 1point #PointsTotal-141

The next #libraryhaul book for this months #Scareathlon I‘ve always dismissed her novels as “romance” but it‘s a thriller just as much. Boston lawyer Eli Landon, retreats back to his grandmothers mansion,Bluff House, after being accused of the murder of his soon-to-Be-ex-Wife. There he meets Abra, housekeeper & yoga instructor who helps him clear his name. But someone is intent on destroying him totally. #TeamSlaughter 1point #PointsTotal-35

Landon discovers his soon to be ex-wife‘s body & is accused of murder. He loses his job & friends, but nothing adds up correctly. Book started slow; I almost bailed, but I‘m glad I didn‘t.

I read the rest of the liar by Nora Roberts earlier today. Now I will start reading Whiskey Beach 📖📖 #cr #currentlyreading #book #books #booknerd #bookworm #bookporn #bookaddict #bookphotography #books4ever #books4life #bookstagram #instabooks #lovetoread #lovebooks #booklover #read #reading #readingday #readaddict #readingtime #noraroberts #theliar #whiskeybeach

#drinksoncovers #anditsaugust so no actual pictures of drinks so had to go with a drink 🥃 in the title. This is a standalone #romantsy suspense novel. It revolves around a family 's century's old home , making it a good choice for #augustgirrrls #familyaffair

On the bright side...my beach vacation just got a little more certain. 😀
(She said as she remembered the 12 hours of #SharkWeek shows she's watched today).

#rockinmay There was a phase I binge on Nora Roberts' romantic suspense books. I wasn't big on romance novels, these were the closest romance stories I could get into. She is one of America's bestselling authors and a #paperbackwriter with more than 200 novels under her name, including the pseudonym JD Robb.

#marchintoreading lighthouse Love all things Nora and don't you hate when you can't get the price sticker off without hurting the cover ☹️

#seasonsreadings2016 Here are some of my favorite Love stories Nora/JD Robb and Outlander.

Another excellent stand alone.

Nothing like a cozy Nora Roberts book to help soothe the blues😊