Miraz Jordan

I’ve really enjoyed this series. Just finished 3rd Tango: (Schock Sisters Mystery Series) by Misty Evans and Adrienne Giordano. 📚 Looks like the authors have written other books, but in genres that aren’t really my thing. With any luck, there are more of this series yet to come.

I found 2nd Strike: Book 2 of 3: Schock Sisters Mystery Series by Misty Evans and Adrienne Giordano as compelling as Book 1. 📚 Now on to Book 3.

Fifteen years ago, a newborn … was kidnapped … Then-FBI Agent Charlie Schock solved the crime … But it wasn’t the Haver’s child.

Intense and very readable: 1st Shock: A Schock Sisters Private Investigator Mystery by Misty Evans and Adrienne Giordano. 📚

Elite forensic sculptor Meg Schock is obsessed with solving cold cases and bringing justice to victims.

I’ve bought the next in series.

A pleasant read: Swamp Sweets (Miss Fortune Mysteries Book 21) by Jana DeLeon 📚

A brilliant book by a favourite author: Unbreakable by Cari Hunter. 📚

Dr. Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare.

Another excellent read from a favourite author: Fear on the Fens: (DI Nikki Galena Series Book 13) by Joy Ellis 📚

[they] must find a man who’s been missing for two decades and unravel the painful past of a broken family before anyone else dies.

… with their hands tied …

Mysteries featuring black lesbians, with a touch of romance, are few and far between. Smoke Before Fire by A.M. McKnight 📚

I give this developing author a pass on the many typos, but the price should be half what it is on a lightweight book. Considering reading more by McKnight.

Noooo! When you finish Full Bodied (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 3) by Mia Gold 📚, knowing there’s a Book 4, so you go straight to buy it and see:

This title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on December 14, 2021.

This series keeps me reading well past my going to sleep time! I really enjoyed Extra Dirty (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 2) by Mia Gold 📚:

A 40-something female tourist seeks out Ruby, desperate for her help. She was out partying all night with her friend [who now] is missing.

I really enjoyed On the Rocks (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 1) by Mia Gold 📚:

Welcome to the Bahamian world of Ruby Steele … her local dive bar, … her major drinking problem, her (way) too many fights, her inability to get herself out of trouble, and her fists made of stone.

I read and enjoyed The Chase: (The Diving Series Book 15) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 📚

I backed the Kickstarter and received an early copy. The first half confused me a little with several different storylines. The second half wove them all together in a gripping way.

I like the author, the book’s well written, but I need to stop reading as the grisly bits are infiltrating my brain and my dreams: Beware the Past (Detective Matt Ballard Book 1) by Joy Ellis. 📚

I bought this in 2017 — perhaps I read it then. May be why it seems a bit familiar.

Undermined: A Gay Mystery (Daniel Owen Welsh Mysteries Book 1) by Ripley Hayes. 📚

An unusual book for me to read, featuring male lead characters. A single, surprisingly graphic, sex scene. Leaned more to romance than mystery, but I did enjoy it.

Another good read from this author: Goodbye Calais Club: (A Port Alma Murder Mystery Book 2) by Anne Shillolo. 📚

Disappointed I have to wait for the third book in the series.

there’s no way Holly can investigate on her own. Or is there?

I quite enjoyed The Complete Monica Noble Murder Mysteries, a 3 book set, by Faith Martin 📚. I had to take a break after book 2 as they’re a little cloying.

A fairly easy read with a woman who has an eye for detail. Interesting acknowledgment of inappropriate attraction too.

A darn good read: Project Charon 1: Re-entry by Patty Jansen:

Tina needs money, and needs it fast. Another creditor is impossible to find. That leaves her one option: to return to the world she fled fifteen years ago and Kelso Space Station

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Well written, unusual, gripping.

22% through and I was considering abandoning When Murder Comes Home (Aileen and Callan Murder Mysteries Book 1) by Shana Frost. 📚 Then this para decided me👎🏼:

Steaming pots of savoury food effused mouth-watering aromas that drifted through the kitchen into the dining room.

Yet another excellent book in a series by a favourite author: Warn Me When It’s Time (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery Book 6) by Cheryl A Head. 📚

FBI agent, James Saleh, … helps the Mack Agency infiltrate and take down a homegrown militia hell-bent on starting a race war in America.

Hmmm, I’ve abandoned Blood in the Bayou: A Bone-Chilling FBI Thriller by CM Sutter just under half way through. There was too much point of view of a particularly nasty criminal and the FBI agents seem to be overlooking some obvious things. Just not working for me. 📚

I really enjoyed this Canadian story: Goodbye Port Alma (A DC Holly Towns Murder Mystery) by Anne Shillolo. 📚

DC Holly Towns is on the team that has to untangle a far-reaching web of sex, drugs, and money, and solve a crime that threatens to tear the city apart.

Damn good read, so well put together! The Case of the Fond Farewell (Ellie Tappet Cruise Ship Mysteries Book 6) by Cheri Baker. 📚

When tragedy strikes in the dark of night, Ellie and her friends investigate. The trail of deception leads to a shocking revelation…

// @cheri

Knockout (A Holly Hands Mystery—Book 1) by Mia Gold had a very strong start. 📚 A new and original character and compelling premise. I found it strained credulity overall though and sometimes just annoyed me. Not sure I’ll read the next one.

This was a pretty good read: Old Sins, Long Memories by Angela Arney. 📚

Meet Dr Lizzie Browne. After her divorce she moves to a small coastal town for a quieter life. Now her patients are turning up dead.

This started well, became a bit suss and then by 66% through was annoying: Last Call (The Janet Black Mystery Series Book 1) by Libby Kirsch 📚

I read to the end just to see the explanations really.

Hmm, I read The Uniform (Detective Helen Carter Book 1) by Jodie Lawrance. 📚

Set in Edinburgh in the 1970s the relentless grimness makes this a bit hard going: every single page contains dirt, grime, overt sexism, smoking, excessive drinking, poverty, tenements, slums, winter…