This is my stack for the #ShelfSweeper Readathon for May 2025.

@Tove_Reads @Andrew65 #4Elizabeth

#TheDarkMaestro #BrendanSlocumb #SeriesLove2025

I had read Brendan Slocumb's first novel, The Violin Conspiracy. It was a great book. This book is different than the first book. Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy with a drug dealer for a father. Larissa, his father's girlfriend, claws his way out of challenging circumstances to unimaginable heights in the classical music world.

#Genesis #ChrisCarter #SeriesLove2025

The killer has a list and the murders were horrendous. Hunter and Garcia had to quickly find the killer before he killed again. The autopsy reveals a poem left by the killer inside the body of the victim. Another body is found when a second part of the poem is found. Hunter and Garcia must catch the most disciplined killer that he has ever encountered, someone who thrives on victim‘s fear.

#BuryThemDeep #JamesOswald #SeriesLove2025

When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts is immediate... and the discovery of her burnt-out car in remote woodland to the south of Edinburgh sets off a desperate search for the missing woman.
Meanwhile, DCI Tony McLean and the team are preparing for a major anti-corruption operation - one which may raise the ire of more than a few powerful people

This is the first book in The Detective Corstorphine Series. Still grieving his wife‘s death, Corstorphine finds himself hunting a killer who crafts elaborate deathtraps from human remains – clockwork mechanisms that deliver murder with chilling precision. When the victim‘s pregnant girlfriend Margo – her face a map of bruises – shares a reporter‘s notebook found among her boyfriend‘s possessions, Corstorphine discovers a connection to

#NotesOnYourSuddenDisappearance #AlisonEspach #SeriesLove2025

After I read The Wedding People, I decided to read another book by Alison Espach. I had enjoyed her writing and wanted to see how she was growing as a writer. This is her 2nd book and I have her first book, The Adults, on order too. I thought The Wedding People is her best book and we can see how she is maturing into a really better writer.

#TheGodoftheWoods #LizMoore

I‘m glad you finally got the book that I mailed the last week of February. I was expecting to get it back in the mail as I thought I might have made a mistake addressing it. Hope your move goes well. You will have to give me your new address. Enjoy the book!

#TheGreyWolf #LouisePenny #SeriesLove2025

This is the nineteenth mystery of the Armand Gamache series. As Gamache sits with his wife, Reine-Marie, in their back garden, the phone keeps ringing relentlessly. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. The Grey wolf, a missing coat, and intruder alarm, a note for gamache reading, "This might interest you."

#HappyBirthday #eggs

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays!

#TheWeddingPeople #AlisonEspach #SeriesLove2025

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. Phoebe comes to the Cornwall Inn to kill herself. When she shows up there is a wedding about to happen. The bride, Lila, tells Phoebe she cannot kill herself as it will ruin her wedding. Phoebe and Lila become great friends and Phoebe is asked to be Lila's maid of honor.

#FireStrike #CliveCussler #MikeMadden #seriesLove2025

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must battle an army of genetically engineered mercenaries to stop a hypersonic missile attack in this explosive new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. This was a fast-paced exciting read. I sometimes have trouble with the weaponry but I seem to have made it through with this one.

#RealmofIceAndSky #BuddyLevy #SeriesLove2025

Realm of Ice and Sky is a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via of airship and the men who sacrificed everything to make history:
Walter Wellman pioneered polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation making history‘s first attempt.
1908 American explorer Dr Frederick Cook first to claim he made it to the North Pole.
1909 American Robert Peary made it to the North Pole.

#MurderAtRavensHollow #LouiseMarley #SeriesLove2025

This is the 3rd book in An English Village Mystery by Louise Marley. DS Harriet Match and DI Ben Taylor characters delve into the troubled past her mind racing with questions. As the past unfolds, creating a narrative that keeps us engaged from the beginning to the end. This is a mystery with police procedural elements with a touch of suspense.

#Mistborn #BrandonSanderson #SeriesLove2025

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.

I‘m so excited that Pete Hegseth was approved for President Trump‘s cabinet as Secretary of Defense and Kristi Noem even got 6 Democratics to approve her DHS secretary. Donald Trump is in Nevada today to thank them for voting for him. Trump visited North Carolina and California yesterday to speak about building new homes for them! Things are really great in Trump world!

#WarsawProtocol #SteveBerry #SeriesLove2025

The book is about whether we place missiles in Poland pointed at Russia or the Iranians. Since the Polish people say 'no missiles in Poland' that is what Cotton Malone does. He listens to the people of Poland and does what they want even though the president of the US, Warren Fox, wants to place the missiles in Poland. This is a great story and one you should read if you like political books.

#AfterSheVanished #SADunphy #SeriesLove2025

Starting this one today!

#12BooksOf2024 #ChurchillInTheWhiteHouse #RobertSchmuhl #December2024

Winston Churchill visited the White House many times during his two terms as prime minister. He met with FDR and Dwight D. Eisenhower and shaped American foreign policy during the Second World War. He arrived after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had a great relationship with FDR but not so much with Eisenhower.

#12BooksOf2024 #TrunkMusic #MichaelConnolly #November2024

This is another great Harry Bosch novel with lots of twists that kept me turning the pages until the end. I liked that his love interest from The Black Echo shows up again. That was a pleasant surprise! I love Harry's lingo and expressions and they keep me chuckling to myself. The end of the book came quickly and what a surprise that was.

#12BooksOf2024 #FromHereToTheGreatUnknown #LisaMariePresley #October2024

This is Lisa Marie Presley's story in her own words written by her daughter, Riley Keough. Lisa's story about smashing golf cars in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom with her father dead on the bathroom floor,

#12Booksof2024 #TheUnseenWorld #LizMoore #September2024

Ada Sibelius is homeschooled and raised by David, Her brilliant and socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980's era Boston. When his mind begins to falter, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues. She is now on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that takes her from childhood to adulthood.

#12Booksof2024 #DetectiveUpLate #AdrianMcKinty #August2024

Detective Inspector Sean Duffy has a 15 year old girl he is trying to find. He uncovers an underground of men who seem to know her very well. Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water? The writing of this book is well done with plenty of humor. Sean has moved his family to Scotland and will commute.

#12Booksof2024 #InTheWind #RonPetersonJr #July2024

Janice Starr, a 23 year old student an Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA, goes missing. She was an army veteran in the ROTC program. Kay Schucker, the only woman on the Chesapeake Police force, takes on the case to find Janice Starr. Her ROTC professor, Dwight Beddingfield had an affair with Janice. He had Janice make him a beneficiary of her life insurance policy for $344.

#12Booksof2024 #VengeanceisMine #MichaelWood #June2024

This is a standalone novel by Michael Wood. Dawn Shepherd's mother, Rita, is about to reveal to her who her father is. He is about to be released from prison after 20 years incarcerated. Dominic Griffiths murdered Stephanie White who was 13 years old in 1999. She was found in his attic close to her home. Dominic does not remember killing her. He was taking a drug called Fenadine which made

#12Booksof2024 #MurderatWhiteadderHouse #JackieBaldwin #May2024

Eliza Anderson goes to see Grace McKenna reporting that her sister, Beth, is missing. Grace and her team are led to Whiteadder House, a Scottish remote wilderness, where residents stay to be cured of alcohol and drug addiction. When a young woman's body is found on a nearby beach, Grace knows she must find out more before another life is lost.

#12Booksof2024 #LasttoDie #DougSinclair #April2024

Last To Die by Doug Sinclair ***** 4/29/2024
On a cold New Year‘s Eve night, a young woman lies slumped on a park bench. Snow gathers on her hair. If her glazed eyes were closed, she might be sleeping. Nobody will find her for hours…Thirty years later, in the Scottish town of Livingston, a retired police officer disappears from her home.

#12Booksof2024 #TheRoadieCartel #PhilipJKriz #March2024


This is a great book if you are wondering about what goes on in the world of music. It discusses a billion dollar empire and the drugs and cartels that are apart of it. The characters are from a small town in Czechoslovakia and how they got started in America. The writing is crisp and I am looking forward to the next book by this author, Phillip Kriz.

#12Booksof2024 #ZenithMan #McCrackenPostonJr #February2024

Zenith Man by McCracken Poston, Jr. - 320 pgs. ***** 2/17/2024
McCraken Poston, Jr. has written a book about a TV repairman who was a harmless eccentric or a bizarre killer in October 1997. Alvin Ridley, in the town of Ringgold in northwest Georgia reportedly had killed his wife. McCracken Poston, Jr, his legal attorney, pierced together the full story behind Virginia and Alvin's

#HerLastWhisper #JenniferChase #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This was a better book than the first one but still not up to par as a great book. I feel though that the books will get better as they go along so I will keep reading this series and see what happens. Jennifer is turning out to be a good detective and her relationship with Chad is going along just fine and I love watching it grow. So looking forward to book 3 of the series.

#12Booksof2024 #TheWoman #KristinHannah #January2024

The Women by Kristin Hannah ***** 1/29/2024
Frankie McGrath chose to follow her brother, Finley, and joined the Army Nurse Corps and followed his path into the Vietnam War. Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and a country that wants to forget Vietnam

#LittleGirlsSleeping #JenniferChase #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2025

He looked down at the little girl, sleeping peacefully, her arms wrapped around a teddy bear. He knew he was the only one who could save her. He could let her sleep forever. This is the first book of the series. The character of Katie is introduced and I think that book 2 should pick the story up and things will get off to a better start.

#TheBookloversLibrary #MadelineMartin #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that bring them together. Emma Taylor needs to find a job to support herself and her daughter. She is a single mom and there is a war going on and Germany is bombing England. She signs up to send her daughter, Olivia, to the countryside to escape the bombs.

#TheGodoftheWoods #LizMoore #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn‘t just any thirteen-year-old: she‘s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region‘s residents. And this isn‘t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara‘s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago

#TheBookshop #EvanFriss #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations. This was an interesting book about the history of bookstores.

#HouseofGlass #SarahPekkanen #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This was an interesting book that I enjoyed. The story was told by Stella. It was about Beth and Ian getting a divorce and Stella was suppose to find out who their daughter, Rose, was supposed to have custody of. She goes to their house and notices there is no glass in the house. Everything that usually has glass is now plexiglass.

#DeadSouls #AngelaMarsons #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This is the 6th installment of the Kim Stone series. There is discovered a suicide of Jeremy Roberts and Kim is forced to investigate with Tom Travis, DCI of West Mercia. Kim is not too happy about doing this investigation with Tom Travis but her boss insisted. Tom has been investigating a potential hate crime against Polish immigrant, Henryk Kowalski.

#BattleForTheAmericanMind #PeteHegseth #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This is a book about the school system which is very progressive teaching our children to hate the society our ancestors built. The teachers are neglecting to teach math, english etc. They are focusing on capturing our children's minds for the radical left agenda. We need to uproot a century of miseducation and get back to the basics which we are lacking in America.

#TrunkMusic #MichaelConnelly #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #November2024

This is another great Harry Bosch novel with lots of twists that kept me turning the pages until the end. I liked that his love interest from The Black Echo shows up again. That was a pleasant surprise! I love Harry's lingo and expressions and they keep me chuckling to myself.

#AWomanMakesAPlan #MayeMusk #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #November2024

This is a very interesting book about Elon Musk's mother. She has been a model and a dietitian for many years. At 71 she is still modeling and has written this book about her life. She got married in her early 20's and had 3 children in 3 years. Her eldest son, Elon, at the age of 12 was reading encyclopedias.

#October2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 5 books for October with 1 Bingo.

#FromHereToTheGreatUnknown #LisaMariePresley #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

This is Lisa Marie Presley's story in her own words written by her daughter, Riley Keough. Lisa's story about smashing golf cars in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom with her father dead on the bathroom floor, about living in LA with her mom,

#TheTrap #AvaGlass #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

The Trap by Ava Glass. Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit. Her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning. Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait. How far will she go to catch the killer? This is a great series. I need to go back and read book 1 and 2 of this series.This novel is a spy thriller filled with politics

#TheMarriageHearse #KateEllis #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

Kirsten Harbourn is found murdered to death on her wedding day. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fiancé knew nothing about. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl made her wedding vows, and a few days later her bridegroom was found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. Are these murders linked?

#OnRecord1979 #GBrown #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

This is a very interesting book about the year in music on record 1979. It has 200 rare images of the bands, 100 interviews and insights from the year 1979. The book belongs in the library of every music fan and music institution. It is a great book to put on your coffee table as a reference book.

#TheHitchcockHotel #StephanieWrobel #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel. To celebrate the hotel‘s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn‘t spoken to any of them in sixteen years.

#October2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

These are my books for October 2024.

#September2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 5 books for September 2024 with 0 Bingos. I spent most of September downsizing my books and so far I have sold 367 books.

#TheBriarClub #KateQuinn #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation‘s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences.

#AllTheColorsoftheDark #ChrisWhitaker #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding