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lauraisntwilder
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I finished this over the long weekend. It's my favorite of the series so far. I thought the setup, the beginning section before Morse shows up, worked well in this one and made me care more about the resolution. It was twisty turny and I had no idea who the culprit would be.

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lauraisntwilder
Last Seen Wearing | Colin Dexter
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Pickpick

Book 2 of the Inspector Morse series. There were so many possible outcomes here, even Morse was confused!

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Cuilin
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#CoverLove #chairs

One of my favorite police procedural series

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚🪑💙 4mo
Eggs Dramatic cover👏🏻👏🏻 4mo
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lauraisntwilder
Last Bus to Woodstock | Colin Dexter
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Pickpick

I listened to the audio with my husband on our drive back from TN on the 28th. Knowing it was first published in the 70s explains some of the weirder parts (like the discussion on rape by some irredeemable male side characters). Morse is likable and the mystery was satisfying.

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rwmg
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Mehso-so

The trouble is that although I like Oxford setting and the fiendishly clever puzzles in these books, I've come to realise that despite the occasional flashes of erudition I don't actually like Morse himself very much. Yes, this is the 1970s but the spectacle of a middle-aged man who acts like a teenager who has just discovered the top shelf at the newsagent's is just too depressing.

Ruthiella Yeah, he‘s an ass. I think what I like most about the books (besides the lovely Sergeant Lewis) is how he‘s usually very wrong until he gets it right. 14mo
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rwmg
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Always glad to see antepenultimate in the wild, as it were

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rwmg
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"LIMPLY THE REVEREND Lionel Lawson shook the last smoothly gloved hand, the slim hand of Mrs Emily Walsh-Atkins, and he knew that the pews in the old church behind him were now empty."

@ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays

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rwmg
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Nicholas Quinn, a member of the Oxford Foreign Examinations Syndicate, who is almost totally deaf but a very talented lip reader, is found murdered at his home. Morse and Lewis investigate.

I enjoy these stories, and there was a good twist at the end, but I wish Hathaway was involved.

DrexEdit I haven't read any of the Colin Dexter books but I do enjoy the various TV series that are based on them! 14mo
rwmg I think I've seen a couple of episodes of Morse but too long ago to remember but more of Lewis 14mo
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
Last Seen Wearing | Colin Dexter
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Taking photos of beautiful books in glass cabinets is lowkey kind of frustrating- but check this out! They should republish the series with these covers, stat.

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