What We’re Reading: April 2023
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Lida’s Reading List
I’d heard good things about Rhys Bowen books from my Sleuths & Sidekicks sisters, so I decided to read one. It’s been a long time since I read over 300 pages in one sitting! I enjoyed it that much. I also read more mysteries and books supposedly meant for kids.
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
Going Rogue – Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich
Scot and Soda - Last Ditch Mysteries, Volume 2 by Catriona McPherson
Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed
That’s Not My Name by Anousha Syed
Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne and Max Lang
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
Carol’s Reading List
After starting with #1, I finished Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series—and I wish there were more! I can’t tell you how much I love that series. Fingers crossed for a new one next year.
A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie
The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton
Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves
Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves
The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves
Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves
The Seagull by Ann Cleeves
The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
Jen’s Reading List
This month I read books with incredible world building. By and large they took me outside my typical English country village comfort reading (except for The Red House Mystery, which is a joy through and through) and I loved them all.
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (finished)
Arsenic and Adobo: A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, Book 1 by Mia P. Manansala (finished)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (in progress)
Blythewood by Carol Goodman (finished)
Homer’s The Odyssey by Gillian Cross (finished)
Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary (finished)
Unleashed: A Swindle Mystery by Gordon Korman (in progress)
Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (in progress)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster (finished)
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events Book #7) by Lemony Snicket (finished)
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel (finished)
The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer (finished)
Tina’s Reading List
My reading this month has mostly been in preparation for Murderous March. I moderated a Young Sleuths panel and you will see an asterisk next to those books – every one of those books was wonderful and thought provoking. As icing on the cake, I had the pleasure, along with Carol Pouliot, of interviewing our Guest of Honor Deborah Crombie, so I have been reading and re-reading her Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series. They get better and better as the series progresses.
The Metropolitans by Carol Goodman*
Blythewood by Carol Goodman*
Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco by Richie Narvaez*
I Play One on TV by Alan Orloff*
Murder is Bad Manners (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery) by Robin Stevens*
The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver*
Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie
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