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This is one of those books that has been recommended to me over and over again, and I finally got around to reading it! The Chief Inspector Gamache series is often referred to as a cozy mystery, but I found it to be a bit meatier than the cozies I’m used to. That’s not a bad thing. The case that brings Gamache and his team
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This book is a sequel to McManus’s first book, One of Us Is Lying, which I enjoyed a lot. Instead of focusing on the main characters from that book, this book centers around the classmates of Bronwyn’s younger sister, Maeve. It’s hard to keep a good gossip down, and everyone wants to fill the shoes of Simon, the gossip-slinging victim of the first book. So when
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This book is what I would put in the category of “gentle reads”. Nothing particularly bad happens here, unless you count the death of Amy, Sara’s penpal. But that death happens off screen and before Sara arrives, so you have no emotional connection to her at the beginning of the story. So what you really have is the story of a small town and its
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Enough time passed between when I placed this on my TBR and read it that I had completely forgotten the “back of the book” text. And often I enjoy going into a book blind, so the first time the main character wakes up in a different body than the one he started the story in, the top of my head blew off and I was
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