#cloakdaggerchal

Since thrillers are my go-to genre, I’ve decided to join the Cloak and Dagger reading challenge being hosted by Carols Notebook. Click on the link for full details and to sign up. I have never done this challenge, but this one caught my eye since thrillers are my thing. Challenge Rules: You can read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime/true crime genres. Any sub-genres are…

Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

Wild Sign is Book #5 for Cloak & Dagger 2021 Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs was like water after a reading drought! I was half afraid that the series would have lost its charm, but I needn’t have worried. Happy to report that this was an awesome read. Continue reading

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

It’s been a while since I read any contemporary YA, think the last one may have been Thirteen Reasons Why and Some Boys Do. So, I took up Karen M. McManu’s One of Us is Lying with some trepidation. It came highly recommended in last week’s Top 10 Tuesday posts. And it was actually quite good. Simon’s been running a gossip app in high school, and has made a lot of enemies because most of that…

Behold, Here’s Poison by Georgette Heyer

Behold, Here’s Poison is a good example of how difficult it must have been to investigate back in the 1920s. There were no CCTVs, camera phones, voice recognition, or DNA analysis. Even fingerprinting really just started in 1901. All the police had: post-mortem (never as sophisticated as forensics today), witnesses (mostly unreliable), and criminal psychology (quite dodgy). There’s also a certain…