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Finished my last book for the #ChristmasCrimeChallenge hosted by @RaeLovesToRead !

I laughed out loud quite a bit reading this book. It is a bit mind-boggling involving ghosts, time travel and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Adams‘ love of computer science also figures in the plot. Lots of fun.

I enjoyed this mystery, typical of Christie's English country-house stories but not featuring any of her famous detectives.

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My second to last #ChristmasCrimeChallenge completed.

These Martin Beck police procedurals from 60s-70s Sweden are well deserved classics of crime fiction. In this one, a child rapist and murderer is terrorizing Stockholm and police resources, already stretched thin, are under extreme pressure to prevent the next brutal crime. It takes hard work (little forensics and limited technology) and sharp patrolmen and detectives to succeed.

Another completed #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

This novel isn‘t a mystery, but rather a psychological portrait of various characters with a twisted ending worthy of Edgar Allen Poe or a Twilight Zone episode. Three seemingly disconnected stories converge with macabre results.

Vicki Delany mysteries are a guilty pleasure for me. They're somewhat formulaic but always cozy and relaxing reads. This is the first in her series featuring the owner of a Sherlockian bookstore.

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A very good installment in the Inspector Rebus series, in which Rebus investigates a school shooting that involves a family connection.

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It really wasn‘t as good as the first 1 which had a lot of world building & character development. This one now didn‘t need to set that up there could have been more action, trials, conflict, etc ESPECIALLY being written as a duology -I expected more. It‘s wasn‘t bad, but just kind of meandered.

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Putting effort in this weekend to finish all the books before the year ends!

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I really enjoyed this book. It covers the lives of three women, Alison from the 1500s who is accused of witchcraft, Clem a woman from this century whose daughter has been badly burned and Erin Clem's daughter. This book covers some of the graphic history of witchcraft in the Orkney Islands as well as the power of modern-day cults and ancient curses 🖤
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Tagging the first book in the series since this fourth one is not in the Litsy catalog. Published in 1987, it‘s a wee bit dated, but still not too bad and the mystery was pretty good. A bomb goes off at a cribbage tournament at an upscale hotel in Manhattan. Lt. Sigrid‘s partner, Tillie was there and is injured. She takes the case, but with two dead and two badly injured, who was really the intended target?

7th book for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge