Miraz Jordan

I was initially uncertain about The Girls in the Snow (Nikki Hunt Book 1) by Stacy Green, but the book grew on me and in the end I quite enjoyed it. 📚

Nikki Hunt's current case takes her back to where she grew up, and where her parents were murdered. That complicates things for her …

Another good read by Anne Shillolo: Goodbye Quinn's Landing (A Port Alma Murder Mystery Book 9). 📚

DC Holly Towns sees a bigger picture than the rest of the team have realised, but the pieces gradually come to light and fit together. Port Alma ends up a safer place to live.

Havoc (Eva "Lightning Dance" Duran Book 2) by Deborah J Ledford. 📚

Guns and kids are never a good mix. Add in bullying and a bank robbery, and a bit of well-meaning naivety, and Lightning Dance has quite a tangle to unravel.

More excellent insights into a native american culture in New Mexico.

I'd already read books 6 and 7 as standalones, but enjoyed the other 3 books in this set. Some of the situations became quite bizarre, but the series keeps evolving in an interesting way. The Bea Abbot Agency Mysteries Book 6–10 by Veronica Heley. 📚

The author has some nice turns of phrase.

I finally decided half way through to abandon Murder in Time by Veronica Heley. 📚

The author writes a different series I enjoy but this story has a rape as a central issue and the author's handling of it is weird. It could as well have been a burglary or a mugging. Just not at ease with this book.

Another in a series I enjoy, but not the strongest entrant. Murder at the Hotel (Rina Martin Murder Mystery Book 10) by Jane Adams. 📚

All the usual characters had their parts to play but there was less ferreting out of information and more view into the minds of the suspects.

The final book in a series I've very much enjoyed — Honour Thy Father (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 3) by Alison Joseph. 📚

Agnes is working in a London prison now, but her mother in France is dying, and taking family secrets with her. Agnes has a lot to think about …

I find I'm quite taken with Sister Agnes, having just finished Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 2) by Alison Joseph. 📚

Sister Agnes is less than pleased with her latest assignment. Teaching French in a remote little convent school, out on the windswept Yorkshire moors. Homesick for London, she struggles to fit in from the moment she arrives.

Another in a series I enjoy — Road to Harm (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 6) by Judith Cutler. 📚

Now Fran and Mark are retired they lack the authority and resources of being Police officers. That doesn't stop them investigating successfully though, in spite of attempts to thwart them.

I enjoyed No Harm, No Foul (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 5) by Judith Cutler. 📚

Fran and the team find themselves overloaded with work as they carry out two separate investigations.

One missing child. Twenty skeletons, walled up in a derelict building.

I enjoyed Thou Shalt Not Kill (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 1) by Alison Joseph. 📚

It strikes me that this series would probably work well on Acorn TV.

Sister Agnes Bourdillon … belongs to an open Order in gritty Central London. … [but she] feels torn between her instincts and her faith. Obedience to her Order is what she signed up for. But it doesn’t come easy. Especially when there’s a twisty mystery to be solved.

This was free with a newsletter signup — The Opposite of Dark (Casey Holland Mysteries Book 1) by Debra Purdy Kong. 📚

The more I read the more complicated and convoluted the story became, until eventually it just seemed like a soap opera.

I didn't love it.

Why has it taken me so many years to realise I can add useful notes to a Kindle book. Like this one:

Now I don't need to continue reading when I see weeks later this book is unfinished … 📚

This mystery Bea has to solve pretty much on her own, her usual helpers being otherwise occupied. She still comes up trumps though. A False Alarm (The Bea Abbot Agency Mysteries Book 7) by Veronica Heley 📚:

Someone set a tripwire across the top of the staircase in Sir Lucas’s apartment block causing him to fall head-long and break his arm. A malicious prank … or something much worse?

A slightly odd one in the series, but still enjoyable. Furtive Prey (The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries) by D. L. Keur 📚:

a crisis of national security proportions pits Sheriff Landon Reid against the Department of Homeland Security … after a very advanced organoid intelligence … is stolen from the DARPA lab out of Idaho Falls, Idaho

I started Murder at the Opera House (A Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe Mystery Book 1) by Dawn Brookes ages ago then stopped for long enough I'd forgotten how it started. 📚

Finished now, and it was OK but I probably won't bother with more in the series.

Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman works on against a backdrop of a frustrating system. Meanwhile doggedness and persistence eventually winkle out a couple of clues in an apparently intractable case. In Harm’s Way (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 3) by Judith Cutler. 📚

Sigh, somehow I skipped Book 3, so a few elements in here were a little surprising … It was another good read in a series I like. No Harm Done (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 4) by Judith Cutler 📚:

Fran’s no stranger to murder on her patch. But not like this…

There was a lot for Jorja to unravel in this book. I enjoyed the read. Knight Vision (A Jorja Knight Private Investigator Mystery Book 4) by Alice Bienia. 📚 :

as Jorja begins her hunt for the predicted killer, her client’s lookalike is found dead.

This was a quick read, thanks to my enjoying this series so much. I find the main characters very appealing. A False Report by Veronica Heley 📚:

Bea’s investigation leads to the discovery of a circle of crooks with links to high society.

This book introduced me to a nasty practice called The Badger Game.

One of the book series I really enjoy — Detective Nikki Galena Mysteries (15 book series) by Joy Ellis is available at low cost for a few days. 📚

This is your chance to buy the books if you want to read the series.

Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens, she pursues the most vicious criminals.

I wasn't really expecting to enjoy The Bea Abbot Agency Mysteries Books 1–5 box set by Veronica Heley but I was quite wrong. 📚

The characters are interesting and evolve over time. Mrs Abbott has delightful quirks, such as perhaps wanting to wring an annoying neck, but talking herself out of it.

I somewhat liked this, but not enough to read more — The Sigma Surrogate: An Electrifying Cyberpunk Thriller by JT Lawrence 📚 :

As Keke races to solve the mystery—dodging religious terrorists and doomsday cults—she stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the very future of the country and everyone she loves.

I very much enjoyed The Fells (Detectives Donovan & Young Book 1) by Cath Staincliffe. 📚

I found intriguing that it's written in the present tense, by an all-seeing author, which gave the effect of a TV show or movie where the camera shows us the scene with immediacy.

I'll definitely read more.

Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman works on a frustrating case of stalking in Do No Harm (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 2) by Judith Cutler while another team looks into an unpleasant serial flasher. 📚

I found this very readable and am looking forward to the next in series.