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I‘ve never read any of the Maigret books - and they‘ve just reissued a ‘capsule‘ collection with these fantastic covers. Got one to try !

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When Roseanna came out in 1965, the portrayal of an independent woman travelling alone and being comfortable in her own body and sexuality, thus defying norms of the time, must have been original but is a bit outdated today. I didn‘t enjoy the writing style much either and Beck is a total bore. Overall, it‘s an engaging enough mystery and I love that the series was written by husband and wife (a journalist and a poet). First book in the series.

This one was a fun picture to create but go with me here. The favorite criminal profiler I follow is Pat Brown. Pat Brown doesn‘t have ever in synch opinions with John Douglas so here they are in fisticuffs in front of the FBI building.

This does appear to be a criminal profiler thing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The book here is older case reviews. Pat used to teach Profiling at Excelsior which would interesting to follow along, I await her reading suggestions.

Family secrets abound wrapped in bitterness and poor decisions made out of fear over the course of decades. I appreciated the effort to show how these lies and unethical actions can come back to destroy you years later, but this felt too messy and left me wishing it had focused more on the reason behind Nora killing her brother and how the family had to cope with the possibility of losing two children. 3⭐️ s.

There were some fun ones in this collection, like Knox's Holmes tribute/pastiche. Trains really are such a fertile ground for mysteries...

Haven‘t been around much because we are moving. This is our first morning in the new place. It was warm for most of the moving process, but yesterday the weather returned to our usual mild coastal weather. Hopefully it will stay that way since now we have to clean the old place. I hope to reign in the chaos before I have to go back to work in October. 😊

Not my favorite volume so far. The lives of three characters told from three different POVs.

Starting to get more than a little autumnal.

I have a long weekend now, after the travel and stress of this week. So enjoying rain against the window, a British Library Crime Classics collection, and videogames.

This was a fun and twisty time travel mystery! Did not see the ending coming.