Joyce's mystery and fiction book reviews with some non-fiction too!

The CrimeReads editors select the month’s best debut fiction. * Rijula Das, Small Deaths (Amazon Crossing) Rijula Das’ sweeping novel of sex workers …

September’s Best Debut Novels

The trove of items deposited in Key West, now part of a new archive at Penn State, includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts and boxes of personal effects.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/arts/ernest-hemingway-archive-penn-state.html

The places in America we love most right now.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/dining/best-restaurants-list-america.html

Off for a few days at the beach which is lovely now. So, less blogging and more reading.

My choices

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

The Queen by Andrew Morton, and

Troubled Blood by J K Rowling

Up next

The new books by Susan Elia MacNeal and Jodi Picoult.

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What Women Mystery Writers and Female Sleuths Owe to Nancy Drew

What Women Mystery Writers and Female Sleuths Owe to Nancy Drew

— Read on crimereads.com/what-women-mystery-writers-and-female-sleuths-owe-to-nancy-drew/

A look at the week’s best new releases. * Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Pamela Dorman/Viking Books) “The mysteries are complex, the …

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

Barry Awards – 2022
— Read on nightstandbookreviews.com/barry-awards-crime-fiction-2022/

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Lars Kepler, the pen name of a husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team, is Sweden’s best-selling author. Here, they recommend books that take readers beyond fictitious murders to the soul of the city.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/books/stockholm-books-read-lars-kepler.html

I’m listening to Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman on Scribd. Check it out: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/584809070

Lucy Worsley is a wonderful narrator