S&S Book Club: Cheryl Head’s Time’s Undoing
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S&S Book Club: Cheryl Head’s Time’s Undoing

Lida looks at Cheryl Head’s Time’s Undoing through a writer’s eye. Lida writes: The story is told in first person, present tense, using dual points of view and two different time periods: 1929 and 2019 in Birmingham, Alabama. Not an easy task for any writer, and through it, all the author skillfully makes the reader feel very much in the moment. 

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S&S Book Club: Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me
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S&S Book Club: Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me

Carol, Jen, and Lida chat about Tina’s pick: Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me. Tina writes: I chose this title after seeing the trailer for the Apple TV mini-series. The initial setting of this book is a houseboat community in Sausalito, California. I have always loved the idea of living on a houseboat—generally, I am drawn to unusual living arrangements. The scenes of this quaint community whet my appetite. Not one to watch before reading, I immediately requested the book from my library.

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S&S Book Club: Gigi Pandian’s The Raven Thief
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S&S Book Club: Gigi Pandian’s The Raven Thief

Tina, Lida and Jen chat about Carol’s pick: Gigi Pandian’s The Raven Thief. Carol says: I also love Gigi Pandian’s Accidental Alchemist mysteries featuring Dorian the Notre Dame gargoyle. So, it was an easy move for me to check out Pandian’s new Secret Staircase series.

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S&S Book Club: Jacqueline Winspear’s The White Lady
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S&S Book Club: Jacqueline Winspear’s The White Lady

Carol and Jen chat about Jen’s pick: Jacqueline Winspear’s The White Lady. Jen says: I’ve loved Jacqueline Winspear since she first debuted the celebrated Maisie Dobbs series in 2003. When my sister gave me a copy of Winspear’s newest book, The White Lady, featuring a new heroine, I couldn't wait to dive in.

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S&S Book Club: Deanna Raybourn’s A Curious Beginning
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S&S Book Club: Deanna Raybourn’s A Curious Beginning

Tina, Jen, Lida & Carol chat about Lida’s pick: Deanna Raybourn’s A Curious Beginning, #1 in the Veronica Speedwell Mysteries. Lida says: Always on the lookout for a read with action, snappy dialogue, and a mystery, I happened upon A Curious Beginning. An author new to me, I was very pleasantly surprised.

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S&amp;S Book Club: Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam</a>
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S&S Book Club: Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam

Tina, Lida & Carol chat about Jen’s pick: Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam. Jen says: Barbara Neely is a celebrated African American mystery writer, and when her name came up at a recent Sisters in Crime Chicagoland meeting, I realized it was time for me to finally pick up one of her books, and I’m so glad that I did.

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S&amp;S Book Club: Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
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S&S Book Club: Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby

Tina, Lida and Jen chat about Tina’s pick: S.A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland. Tina writes: I have been meaning to read Blacktop Wasteland since 2020 when it garnered so many awards. This month it finally made it to the top of my never-ending TBR pile. I dug in with enthusiasm.

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S&amp;S Book Club: Nancy Atherton’s Aunt Dimity’s Death
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S&S Book Club: Nancy Atherton’s Aunt Dimity’s Death

Tina, Lida and Jen chat about Carol’s pick: Nancy Atherton’s Aunt Dimity’s Death. Carol writes: With the first couple of chapter-one sentences, I was hooked. Aunt Dimity’s Death is absolutely delightful—beautifully written, fun, and imaginative—with characters that I enjoy spending time with.

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S&amp;S Book Club: Tana French’s The Searcher
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S&S Book Club: Tana French’s The Searcher

Lida and Jen discuss Tana French’s The Searcher. Jen writes: I’m in awe of Tana French. She writes about topics I often shy away from – families broken apart by drugs, disillusioned cops, and more than a few bodies of dead children – but I can’t stop reading her books. She takes me to dark places and out the other side to an impossibly hopeful conclusion.

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S&amp;S Book Club: Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness
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S&S Book Club: Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness

Jen, Carol & Tina chat about Jen’s pick: Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness. Jen says: Rhys Bowen is a magician. Her (currently) 15-book series follows the adventures of a penniless royal 34th in line for the throne of England in the 1930s, and the books are just as fun as their premise.

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S&amp;S Book Club: Alafair Burke’s If You Were Here
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S&S Book Club: Alafair Burke’s If You Were Here

Carol and Tina discuss Alafair Burke’s thriller If You Were Here. Carol writes: Alafair Burke’s skill at creating mounting tension and all-enveloping suspense is second to none. Her characters are complex and beautifully flawed, but we can relate to them. The book is filled with wonderfully crafted twists and turns to keep you turning the pages to keep you guessing.

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