fiction
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the #HauntedHaiku challenge. @hook.me.a.book asked for “a haunting haiku using THREE book titles—one for each line, in the traditional 5–7–5 syllable format.” Books used: Danger Lies Within by Kim KrenikThe Only Way is Murder by Lou CollinsCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op and NetGalley for this ARC. The Ghost of Hightower Pond releases today, Oct 13, 2026. Prepare for a tale of terror. The ghost of Hightower Pond. It is eighteen hundred and something, and the plague is ravaging London. While the poor are left to the mercy of…
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“Aunt Ruby! A man has been murdered in my tearoom, and all you can think about is how good-looking the detective is?” Trinity Bishop is a devoted Jane Austen fan. After divorcing her husband at forty-two, she moves back to her hometown of Sidmouth, Devon, and opens a Jane Austen-themed tearoom, complete with Regency dresses…
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My name is Ishmael Dollah. I am sixty years old. I used to be a CEO. I am now an assassin. I kill people who deserve to die. Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Book review of Assassins Can’t Do It Alone by Shesh, book 3 in the series. Many thanks to Shehs for this ebook, releasing today, Oct 10,…
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Not panicking now, the goblin pointed a claw at Vimes’ left wrist, looked him in the face, and said, ‘Just ice?’ It was a plea. Book 39 in the Discworld series, Book 8 in the City Watch subseries. Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Watch, Duke of Ankh and keeper of the Summoning Dark, may…
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Nothing needed saying. After a while, the silence stopped feeling like a silence that needed filling. Book 1 in the Dock Meridian series. Saoirse Vanthoorn is a mechanical engineer, going from job to job on different space docks. This has been her routine for many years. But when she arrives at Dock Meridian, she finds…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this ARC of Operation Vienna by Michael Ridpath, book 2 in The Foreign Correspondent series. Set in Vienna in the early 1930s, Operation Vienna follows historian Archie Laverick, and foreign correspondent Esme Carmichael, who are investigating a supposed suicide. The rich American Howland Witherell, who was…
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We need to know the truth, Vimes. Commander Sam Vimes’ truth. It may count for more than you think. Book 34 in the Discworld series, Book 7 in the City Watch subseries. Sam Vimes is no stranger to darkness, be it literal or metaphorical. But in Thud!, he is battling a darkness unlike any he…
