PK the Bookeemonster: Tuesday ... mleh!

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Tuesday ... mleh!

Tuesday

I didn't get as much reading done last night as I was hoping. I did, however, make a big batch of dog snacks, prepped for a couple days of my meals, etc.

I'm liking the Honor Harrington book I'm reading a lot and I'm really getting into the depth of the politics and intrigues of all the worlds, but I also have a new release today I'd like to start.

THE LAST REMAINS by Elly Griffiths.15th of 15 in series featuring Dr. Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist, and Harry Nelson, a detective chief inspector, in the Saltmarsh area near Norfolk, England.

When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café, they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern—the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily’s Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was part of the group gathered the weekend before she disappeared—Ruth’s friend Cathbad. As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of relationships within the archeology group and look for a link between them and the café where Emily’s bones were found. Then, just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. The trail leads Ruth a to the Neolithic flint mines in Grimes Graves. The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend?

Published 2023; 364 pages.

Interested in another, lighter, read, WELCOME TO MOONLIGHT HARBOR by Sheila Roberts. 1st of 7 in series.

Once happily married, Jenna Jones is about to turn forty, and this year for her birthday—lucky her—she’s getting a divorce. She’s barely able to support herself and her teenage daughter, but now her deadbeat artist ex is hitting her up for spousal support…and then spending it on his “other” woman. Still, as her mother always says, every storm brings a rainbow. And when she gets a very unexpected gift from her Great-Aunt Edie, things seem to be taking a turn for the better. Aging aunt Edie is finding it difficult to keep up her business running The Driftwood Inn, so she invites Jenna to come live with her and run the place. It looks like Jenna’s financial problems are solved! Or not. The town is a little more run-down than Jenna remembers, but that’s nothing compared to the ramshackle state of The Driftwood Inn. Aunt Edie is confident they can return it to its former glory, though Jenna feels like she’s jumped from the proverbial frying pan into the beach fire. But who knows? With the help of her new friends and a couple of handsome citizens, perhaps that rainbow is on the horizon after all. Because, no matter what, life is always good at the beach.

Published 2018; 320 pages.

That's my TBR for the week, I'm thinking. A sci fi, a mystery, a romance. I'm not doing an official 1000 page challenge but I'd like to focus on something like that again each week. I feel like I'm getting reading done when I focus on it.