PK the Bookeemonster: It's been a long week ... TGIF

Friday, February 10, 2023

It's been a long week ... TGIF

Yay, Friday

Tomorrow I'll be having a hair appointment and then going to the coffee shop where I'll work on my reading journal.

I'll also have a reading sprint in the afternoon with the cozy group where the scavenger hunt is "elderly sleuth". My choice was:

I finished the Crombie last night. I gave it 3 stars out of 5. I liked it, it was an okay read. There were some issues in execution of story but I liked it.

I'm back to listening to an audio and reading the ebook of TEARS OF THE PEARL by Tasha Alexander. 4th of 17 in series featuring Lady Emily Ashton, a young widow in Victorian London

Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves, diplomats of the British Empire, set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered, strangled in the courtyard of the Sultan’s lavish Topkapi Palace. Sir Richard St. Clare, an Englishman who works at the embassy in Constantinople, is present and recognizes the girl as his own daughter who was kidnapped twenty years earlier. Emily and Colin promise the heartbroken father that they’ll find her killer, but as the investigation gains speed, they find that appearance can be deceiving—especially within the confines of the seraglio. As a woman, Emily is given access to the forbidden world of the harem and quickly discovers that its mysterious, sheltered walls offer no protection from a ruthless murderer. As the number of victims grows, Emily must rely on her own sharp wits in a heart-stopping finale if she is to stop a killer bent on exacting vengeance no matter how many innocent lives he leaves in his wake.

Published 2009; 320 pages. This isn't quite a re-read. I think this is where I got stalled out when they were first coming out.

And maybe I'll choose my next big read. It may be the JD Robb, it may be one of the 23 in 23.