Miraz Jordan

I enjoyed Murder at Sugar Rush Beach (Detectives Preddy & Harris Book 3) by Paula Lennon 📚:

Detective Preddy hoped for a quiet start to the new year. But there’s a murder at Sugar Rush Beach. A man is stabbed through the heart with an antique awl.

I enjoy this author’s books and this was no exception: Striking Range: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima 📚:

Deputy Mattie and her K-9 partner Robo are called to help investigate the death of a young woman found in a campground filled with elk hunters.

Whiled away a day with Death of a Blogger: A Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe Mystery Novella by Dawn Brookes 📚:

a gossip blogger joins a tour party with victims of her malicious words…

I’m a bit ambivalent about Murder in Midwinter (Oxford Dog Walker Crime Thrillers Book 2) by Annie Dalton with Maria Dalton 📚. An interesting concept but a few too many coincidences and some parts dragged.

… the Oxford Six. One by one, the surviving members are targeted.

Unknown Baby Girl, a short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is very powerful. As always from this author, a superbly written story. Read for free before 11 April 2022. 📚

I enjoyed These Little Lies (Detective Inspector Siv Drummond Book 1) by Gretta Mulrooney 📚. A new police procedural series from a British author I like:

Detective Inspector Siv Drummond is looking for a fresh start. What she gets is two dead bodies.

Another in a series I enjoy: Close to Death by Elizabeth Gunn 📚.

Detective Sarah Burke is called out to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street … it’s nothing she can’t handle.

That’s until one of the ‘dead’ bodies wakes up. At least now Sarah has a suspect.

I had low expectations for what turned out to be an excellent book. Murder on Port Meadow (Oxford Dog Walker Crime Thrillers Book 1) by Annie Dalton with Maria Dalton 📚 drew me in immediately and held me engrossed to the end. I’ve bought Book 2.

Abandoned 40% through: A Deadly Course (Sugarbury Falls Mysteries Book 1) by Diane Weiner 📚. Amateur detectives leap to various conclusions. I think I prefer trained detectives.

I abandoned Aged for Murder (A Tuscan Vineyard Cozy Mystery—Book 1) by Fiona Grace 📚 about 33% through. The write-up didn’t make clear it’s a romance with lots of ‘chiseled jaw’ and ‘stunningly handsome’. Romance is so not my thing, especially if it’s hetero.

I quite enjoyed Murder Under the Palms (Detectives Preddy & Harris Book 2) by Paula Lennon 📚. It was a little slow though.

I really enjoyed The Girl Who Killed You (The Shee McQueen Mystery Thriller Series Book 3) by Amy Vansant 📚:

Shee quickly tracks [a missing] boy to a Bahamian island playground … The job seems such a breeze, she hires her daughter to infiltrate the age-restricted compound.

Another really good read in the Goodbye series: Goodbye Lake Street by Anne Shillolo 📚:

Police and a secret group of citizen investigators are locked in a battle for child safety, and Detective Constable Holly Towns finds herself trapped between the two.

A View to Die For by Cheri Baker 📚:

When a wealthy painter is murdered at the luxurious Londonian hotel, Paul and his new partner Andrew Kim take on the case.

Another excellent story from @Cheri, with wit and humour and even the occasional Kiwi! This was a re-read for me. 👍

Enjoyed Broken Places (A Cass Raines Mystery Book 1) by Tracy Clark 📚:

Cass Raines took a bullet in the line of duty… Now, the Chicago PD has one less African-American woman on the force and Cass is the head of a one-woman private investigation agency.

I think my immediate dislike of the narrator got me off to a bad start. I so much wanted to like this Australian book 📚 but it just kind of annoyed me.

Murder in Murloo (Dusty Kent Mysteries Book 1)

I very much enjoyed Murder in Montego Bay (Detectives Preddy & Harris Book 1) by Paula Lennon 📚. Set in Jamaica and featuring Jamaican dialect was a bonus.

Local ice-cream magnate Carter Chin Ellis is shot dead. Shortly after leaving Pelican Walk Police Station.

I enoyed Safe (Merrow & Clarke Book 1) by Jane Adams 📚, though the frequently mentioned Organised Crime Gang torture was a hard read.

Now 17 year old Lauren’s on the run knowing her father will murder her, just like he murdered her mother.

Finished Straight Up (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 4) by Mia Gold 📚. I quite enjoyed it but there are things that strain credulity.

[on a group holiday] a rich wife … wakes up with her best friend’s husband sleeping beside her—dead.

Ruby Steele has to figure out the mystery.

While I enjoyed the first 2 books in the series this third one just didn’t gel with me. Too Close to Kill (Detective Sarah Burke mystery and suspense Book 3) by Elizabeth Gunn. 📚

They always seemed so good together. But did Frank shoot Lois and then turn the gun on himself?

I enjoyed Death by the Thames (Tyrone Swift Detective Book 9) by Gretta Mulrooney 📚:

Respectable, dull Sam Goddard is found dead in the River Thames the evening before his wedding, with a 15 year-old girl. They were both sedated.

Tundra Courage by Brenda Bowie Wise 📚:

While on a village trip to watch her students demonstrate their [nursing] skills, Meara encounters a victim of circumstances that don’t make sense. It is up to her to find the truth.

Set in a Yupik village in Alaska. Thought-provoking.

Seems I bought this 📚 7 years ago but only just finished reading Innocent in Las Vegas (Tiffany Black Mysteries Book 1).

Tiffany Black is determined to leave her job at the casino. She’s one small step away from acquiring her Private Investigator license.

Might read more.

It's a while since I read others in this series so the style of Murder in Pembrokeshire (Tyrone Swift Detective Book 8) by Gretta Mulrooney was a little jarring. 📚

Afan has disappeared. The next day, Swift discovers Afan’s body on a lonely stretch of the nearby coastal path

Today's discovery: a 2012 Māori language scifi book — Ngā Waituhi o Rēhua by Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira. 📚

4 teenagers live on Rēhua, a planet settled after Earth is destroyed by ecological disasters and global war … they discover an island with another colony of people…