My order from the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC surprised me with the inclusion of a 2025 short story, A Christmas Delivery. 😮⭐️🎄🎅🏻
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pickJackson knows how to write a deceptively simple murder mystery and then embellish it with twists and turns and amazing characters.
Something was draped across Dad‘s outstretched arms. A deer? A fawn that was injured? It was sprawled and long legged, something that had been caught in a poacher‘s trap maybe.
#TheKillingWoods #LucyChristopher #Mystery #Thriller #YoungAdult #Contemporary #RealisticFiction #Fiction #Teen #Crime #Audiobook #MysteryThriller
pickWhat an adventure being back with the enigmatic Richard jury as he investigates an unusual crime at a public local pub.A sideline investigation is Wiggins search for his missing sister, which leads to a rounding out his character for the reader. #RichardJuryMystery #libraryfind
pickI found this well-written, but slow. While it features a cold case with a solve I thought was unexpected, it‘s really more a book about the four women “carpool detectives”: how they met, how they began researching the cold case, and their struggles both with law enforcement and navigating COVID.
pickI‘ve been neglecting my unread Dean Koontz books, so it was a delight to read The Bone Farm, a prequel novella in the Jane Hawk series. Jane, a sharp FBI agent, races against time to stop a sadistic serial killer who abducts and tortures young women before murdering them. I‘ve read the first two books in the series and thoroughly enjoyed them. This makes me eager to dive back into the series.
Full Review abookandadog.com/blog/the-bone-farm-koontz
pickIt might be low expectations from bad reviews, but I enjoyed this! I thought the writing was solid, and the story original. Though I understand the "twist" from the beginning, I don't think that was the point of the story, the point is what would you convince yourself to do, and what lies could you make up to yourself (and others) about what you see around you. The characters were interesting.
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pickIt's that time of my reading year when I try (valiantly?) to clean up outstanding challenges while simultaneously picking up random #ToBlonglist titles that strike me. This book is one of the latter and was definitely an all-vibes-great-cover-no-waitlist sort of choice 🤷🏻♀️
I really liked the acerbic commentary on social mobility and class, but the last 1/4th fell apart for me when it turned into an angsty Bonnie-&-Clyde romance #tob26longlist
pickNot the type of book I would normally read, but thank you TOB longlist - this was very entertaining and deeper than I expected it to be. Thanks @Hooked_on_books for the recommendation to listen to the audio of this one - it was fantastic. #TOB2026
