Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all!
This week has been a new book bonanza for me, starting with the second in Charlotte Vassell’s brilliant DI Beauchamp series, The In Crowd, in which DI Beauchamp finds two seemingly unrelated cases (a dead body in the river and the very cold case of a girl’s disappearance from her boarding school over a decade before) unexpectedly intertwined. Come for the mystery; stay for the snark. I adore the writing style of these books and I hope she writes many more.
After that, it was through the wardrobe– or the forest, as the case may be– to Narnia for adults with Meg Shaffer’s The Lost Story, in which a girl’s search for her long-missing half-sister takes her into a story she never imagined. It’s about magic and found family and growing into oneself, and, really, Narnia for adults about does it. No lions, though. Or wardrobes.
What have you been reading this week?
In other news, it’s less than a month until the launch of The Author’s Guide to Murder! You can find our book tour stops– and a link to the first ever Team W reader weekend!– here.
I just bought the above recommendations! They sound fabulous! Thank you! I am curling up with ‘The Last Russian Doll.’ I am getting very strong Fall vibes from it, weirdly. Enjoy your weekend!
I’m reading ‘The Witches of New York’ Ami McKay and I’m kind of meh about it. It is nice for the time of year, but the violence towards women is a bit much. Also, it doesn’t know if it wants to be happy found family or Silence of the Lambs… It’s odd.
Just finished the Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen and loved it! Mystery, WW2, and romance with a UK setting!!