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Denzil Meyrick: Murder at Holly House

Books read in 2024

Jacqueline Harpman: I Who Have Never Known Men
BOOK CLUB READ. ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Anthony Hororowitz: Close To Death
(****)
Jo Nesbo: Blood Ties
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Bea Setton: Berlin
(****)
Whitehead, Colson: Harlem Shuffle
(****)
Harvey, Samantha: Orbital: Winner of the Booker Prize 2024
ALL THE STARS! ONE OF MY FAVOURITE EVER READS. (*****)
Eekhout, Anne: Mary: or, The Birth of Frankenstein
(***)
Bjork, Samuel: The Wolf
(****)
Hoover, Colleen: It Ends With Us
Book club read. Absolute trash. (*)
Backman, Fredrik: Anxious People
(****)
Walsh, Colin: Kala'
ALLTHE STARS! (*****)
Makkai, Rebecca: I Have Some Questions For You
(****)
Craig, Amanda: The Three Graces
DNF (*)
Nugent, Liz: Strange Sally Diamond
(****)
McFadden, Freida: The Housemaid
(*)
Jones, Sadie: Amy and Lan
(****)
Sansom, C. J.: Dark Fire
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Miller, Kirsten: The Change
BOOK CLUB READ (***)
O'Farrell, Maggie: Hamnet: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
(****)
Michaelides, Alex: The Fury
(****)
Callaghan, Jo: Leave No Trace
(****)
Yuzuki, Asako: Butter
DNF (*)
O'Farrell, Maggie: The Marriage Portrait
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Douglas, Claire: The Wrong Sister
(**)
The Bell Jar (50th Anniversary Edition) by Plath, Sylvia
(****)
Gilmartin, Sarah: Service
ALL THE STARS! BOOK CLUB READ (*****)
Moss, Sarah: Summerwater
(****)
Mellors, Coco: Cleopatra and Frankenstein
(****)
Hay, Alex: The Housekeepers
(***)
Davies, Carys: Clear: Carys Davies
ALL THE STARS! BOOK CLUB READ (*****)

Books read in 2023

Hannah, Sophie: Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night
(***)
Swanson, Peter: The Christmas Guest
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
King, Stephen: Holly
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Griffiths, Elly: Bleeding Heart Yard
(***)
Zevin, Gabrielle: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(****)
Selman, Victoria: Truly, Darkly, Deeply
(***)
Clark, Eliza: Penance
(***)
Diaz, Hernan: Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(****)
Swanson, Peter: All the Beautiful Lies
(***)
Matsumoto, Seicho: Tokyo Express (Penguin Modern Classics)
(****)
Percival Everett: The Trees: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
(****)
Moore, Philippa: The Latte Years
(****)
Sancton, Julian: Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Kuang, Rebecca F: Yellowface
(****)
Kingsolver, Barbara: Unsheltered
(****)
Durrant, Sabine: Sun Damage
(****)
Sager, Riley: Lock Every Door
(****)
Macmillan, Gilly: The Long Weekend
(***)
Durrant, Sabine: Under Your Skin
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Hart, Emilia: Weyward:
(****)
Feito, Virginia: Mrs March
(***)
Day, Elizabeth: Magpie
(***)
Kepler, Lars: The Mirror Man
(****)
Slaughter, Karin: Girl, Forgotten
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Jónasson, Ragnar: Outside
(***)
Cornwell, Patricia: Livid
(***)
Hannah, Sophie: The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
(****)
Dean, Will: First Born
ALL THE STARS***** (*****)

Books read in 2022

Mason, Simon: A Killing in November
(****)
Nesbo, Jo: The Jealousy Man
ALL THE STARS ! (*****)
Cavanagh, Steve: Twisted
(****)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Accomplice
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Harris, Joanne: A Narrow Door
(****)
Howard, Catherine Ryan: 56 Days
(****)
Caro Ramsay: Dark Water
(****)
French, Tana: The Searcher
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Grenville, Kate: The Secret River
(****)
Powers, Richard: The Overstory
DNF as book accidentally ended up in the washing machine.
Cox, Sara: Thrown
(****)
Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Jenkins Reid, Taylor: Daisy Jones and The Six
(***)
Bolton, Sharon: The Pact
(****)
Alex Michaelides: The Silent Patient
(***)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Liar
(****)
Kukafka, Danya: Notes on an Execution
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Williams, Lara: Supper Club
(****)
Cornwell, Patricia: Autopsy
(**)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Plea
(****)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Devil's Advocate
(****)
Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Camilla Lackberg: The Stonecutter
(***)
Heidi Amsinck: My Name is Jensen
(****)
Durrant, Sabine: Finders, Keepers
(****)

Books read in 2021

Shaw, Jane: Susan Pulls The Strings
Childhood Christmas favourite
Banville, John: Snow
(****)
Pine, Alex: The Christmas Killer
(***)
Cummins, Jeanine: American Dirt
ALL THE STARS***** (*****)
Netley, Rebecca: The Whistling
(***)
Hannah, Mari: Without a Trace
(****)
Penny: All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache)
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Ward, Catriona: The Last House on Needless Street
(****)
Jackson, Holly: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Book 1
(****)
Parsons, Tony: Die Last
(****)
Phillips, Gin: Fierce
(****)
Horowitz, Anthony: A Line to Kill
(***)
Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Dahl, Sophie: Playing with the Grown-ups
(****)
Buchanan, Greg: Sixteen Horses
(***)
Nesbo, Jo: The Kingdom
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Horowitz, Anthony: Moonflower Murders
(****)
Fuller, Claire: Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: The Shadow of the Wind
(****)
Bailey, Anna: Tall Bones
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Slaughter, Karin: The Silent Wife (Book 10 The Will Trent Series)
(****)
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (Re-read)
(****)
Thomas, Russ: Firewatching
(****)
Hunter, Megan: The Harpy
(****)
Greene, Graham: The End of the Affair (Vintage Classics)
(***)
McDermid, Val: Still Life
(****)
Wait, Rebecca: Our Fathers
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Thomson, Rupert: Never Anyone But You
(****)
Dean, Will: The Last Thing to Burn
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Chambers, Clare: Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
(****)
Stefan Ahnhem: The Ninth Grave
(***)
Haig, Matt: The Midnight Library
(****)
Whitaker, Chris: All The Wicked Girls
(****)
Engberg, Katrine: The Tenant
(***)
Littlewood, Alison: Mistletoe
(****)
Jónasson, Ragnar: The Island
(****)
Griffiths, Elly: The Postscript Murders
(**)
Greenwood, Ross: The Snow Killer
(***)

Books read in 2020

Shaw, Jane: Susan Pulls the Strings
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
McDermid, Val: Christmas is Murder: A chilling short story collection
(****)
Slater, Nigel: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Winterson, Jeanette: Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Hillier, Jennifer: Jar of Hearts
(**)
Dan Simmons: The Terror
(****)
Vickers, Salley: Miss Garnet’s Angel
(***)
Whitaker, Chris: Tall Oaks
(****)
Joan Lindsay: Picnic At Hanging Rock
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Whitaker, Chris: We Begin at the End
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Cavanagh, Steve: Fifty-Fifty
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Kepler, Lars: Lazarus (Joona Linna, Book 7)
(****)
Sullivan, Matthew: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Louise Penny: A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Gamache Book 12)
(****)
Jónasson, Ragnar: The Darkness
(****)
Hans Fallada: Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics)
All the stars! (*****)
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa: The Silence of the Sea
(****)
Carty-Williams, Candice: Queenie
(***)
Cavanagh, Steve: Thirteen
(****)
Evaristo, Bernardine: Girl, Woman, Other
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Jackson, Shirley: The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Modern Classics)
(****)
Koomson, Dorothy: Tell Me Your Secret
(***)
Thomas, Angie: The Hate U Give
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Gowar, Imogen Hermes: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
(***)
Nesbo, Jo: Knife: (Harry Hole 12)
All the stars! (*****)
Weaver, Tim: No One Home
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Hayder, Mo: Birdman: Jack Caffery series 1
(**)
Swanson, Peter: Rules for Perfect Murders
(****)
Rubenhold, Hallie: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Hannah, Mari: The Scandal (Stone and Oliver)
(****)
Chevalier, Tracy: The Last Runaway
(***)
Sansom, C. J.: Dissolution
(****)
Horowitz, Anthony: The House of Silk
(****)
Jo Spain: Dirty Little Secrets
(***)
Anita Shreve: The Stars are Fire
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Cleeves, Ann: The Long Call
(****)
Mazzola, Anna: The Story Keeper
(***)
Karin Slaughter: Fallen (Will Trent 5)
(****)
Andrew Martin: The Winker
(****)
Chris Mooney: The Snow Girls
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Erin Kelly: He Said/She Said
(*****)
Anthony Horowitz: The Sentence is Death
(****)
Elizabeth Strout: Anything is Possible
(***)
Lisa Jewell: The Family Upstairs
(***)
Stephen King: The Outsider
(****)
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing
(****)
Stacey Halls: The Familiars
4/5 (****)
Lisa Jewell: Watching You
(***)

Books read in 2019

Books read in 2018

Books read in 2017

Books read in 2016

Books read in 2015

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2009 books

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Monday, 21 September 2009

And the winner is.....

Thanks to everyone who entered the birthday giveaway and for leaving comments. I really enjoyed reading about why you started your blogs and what keeps you blogging. Great stuff.

I asked the Husband to do the honours by drawing a name out of the hat (it was actually a dish) and so, without further ado, the winner of the giveaway is ... drum roll... Elizabeth at Gossamer Wings. Just e-mail me your details, Elizabeth, and I'll get your parcel posted.

Posted at 09:57 in Giveaway | Permalink

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