It's been so long since I've had an eligible title from https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/ for #MurderEveryMonday I had to really fish for it. BUT, I've visited trout farms, so this one counts. Plus a Kiwi cliché from my theatrical compatriot #Mystery #Bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
mystery
3 weeks. . . but available for pre-order now. If you love to read #mystery, it'll be a nice way to relax after Thanksgiving.
3/5 for "Murder Isn't Cricket" by the Radfords. Sadly book 1 of my 2025 #DeanStreetDecember did not bowl me over. One down nine to go. This is now the fourth year for this fun SUMMER tradition 😁
#Bookstodon #Mystery #Reading
@bookstodon
https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html
All done with #DeanStreetDecember for 2025. Thanks again to Dean Street Press for the reads. If DS(P)D returns next year, so will this bad penny!
#bookstodon #Mystery #middlebrow #biography #reading
https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html
Five stars:
At Death's Dough by Mindy Quigley (2025) is the fifth book in the Deep Dish mystery series. It's the first one not to have an audiobook version and I'll admit to missing Holly Adams's performance.
It's February in Geneva Bay. The snow is thick. The lake is frozen. Delilah O’Leary finds a body while ice fishing. That discovery leads to a story of hidden loot lost during the Prohibition years.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_12/at_deaths_dough.html
3.75/5 for "Let Him Lie" by Ianthe Jerrold, my penultimate read for #DeanStreetDecember 2025. A beautifully written Clayton's detective story.
#Reading #Bookstodon #Mystery
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/547711e9-a370-4629-8697-8ee1a9be78c0
After a disappointing start, Book 2 of my #DeanStreetDecember , "The Trail of The Three Lean Men" was a lot of fun. Two down, eight to go
#Reading #bookstodon #Mystery
@bookstodon
https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html
Really pleased my wife didn't know this rule 32 years ago, and that she didn't decide to wait for when I grow up - whenever that might be. #AmReading #bookstodon #Mystery @bookstodon
After #DeanStreetDecember 2025, an update on the state of my https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/ library. It's in 3 tags: dsp-read, dsptbr, and dsp-dnf. On the left, dsp-read. On the right, dsptbr (atm) I did not screenshot dsp-dnf, because there are only five. 😁
#Reading #Mystery #middlebrow #Bookstodon #nonfiction
@bookstodon
A Review of Sunset: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-sunset/
Five stars:
Death by Java by Alex Erickson and Melissa Moran (Narrator) is the 14th book in the Bookstore Cafe mystery series. Krissy and Paul are visiting her father and stepmother over the summer. Krissy gets caught up in helping a former high school bully get her coffeeshop up to snuff.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/death_by_java.html
All the books. . .
Here's my list of all the #fiction I read in 2025. It's mostly #mystery, of course, but there are some other genres represented as well.
I hope you find something on this list that YOU would love to read!
As a rule I couldn't give a fetid dingo kidney for celebrity endorsements of books I'm #Reading
BUT in the https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/ edition of "Mystery of Mr Jessop" the intro by Curtis Evans proved an exception. Learning that PGW liked it enough to have Bertie Wooster quote from it from it left me very gruntled 😍
The introductions that DSP gets for most of their books really add a lot of interest and value to the releases. Very well worth it
This week so far I haven't gotten nearly as much done with my revisions as I had planned.
Why? Because this. . .
Frustrated much? You bet!
Guess what? CHORDS OF DECEPTION, book 2 in the Lily Gallagher Mysteries series, is ready for beta readers.
shttps://open.substack.com/pub/susannasullivanauthor/p/whats-coming-next-for-my-lily-gallagher?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
#AmWriting #mystery #edgycozymystery #AmReading
Five stars:
Pleading the Fish by Bree Baker and Thérèse Plummer (Narrator) (2022) is the satisfying conclusion to the Seaside Café mystery series. Everly Swan and Grady Hayes are engaged and actively seeking to disprove the Swan family curse. Unfortunately for both there's also a murder to solve: the killing of the woman who was helping them research the curse.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/pleading_the_fish.html
Five stars:
Tell-Tale Treats by Jennifer J Chow and Catherine Ho (Narrator) (2026) is the third book in the Magical Fortune Cookie mystery series. The Pixie Inn is hosting a small reunion for a once tight knit clique of women who met in high school. Their leader and self professed queen bee is a demanding woman and clearly the group isn't as close as it once was. When she is found dead in a bathtub, Felicity fears her almond cookies might have been the cause.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/tell_tale_treats.html
This week I reviewed six of my favorite #mystery books that also feature the amateur sleuth's growing #romance. You can see all six at https://open.substack.com/pub/susannasullivanauthor/p/romance-is-murder?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
After all, it's Valentine's Day.
#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.goodreads.com/book/24693894-tarnished-gold/get_a_copy
Bluesky: @annaptaker.bsky.social
IG: @ann_aptaker
Website: http://www.annaptaker.com/
#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #mystery #historical #noir #murder #criminal #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
I've finished: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
First of all, this is a wonderful mystery, lead by an amateur detective. Her flaws and awkward pursuit of the truth are what kept me glued to this novel.
While this is a novel about an alien embassy to earth, it is more a study of human culture than alien culture.
A climate change destabilized humanity deals badly with the soft power of an alien embassy's cultural attache.
Robson contrasts the aliens that are disinterested in digital media and humanity that is consumed by it. The telepathic aliens that find it hard to lie and obfuscate and the humans that can't stop.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/62f8f66e-e912-4afc-bd8e-efc4b38eecaa
@bookstodon @audiobooks
#ScienceFiction #mystery #AudioBooks #books
Tomorrow is TUESDAY which means #TVMysteries, preceded by #CouplingUK
And everyone is welcome 👋🏼
JUNE 3, 2025 has #Britcom and #BritishCops
6:00pm ET - s2e9 - THE END OF THE LINE
6:30pm ET - s3e1 - SPLIT
(Peacock, Prime/Freevee, Hoopla, Roku)
#TVMysteries VERA 💀🇬🇧🚔
Season 8, Ep. 4 - DARKWATER
https://youtu.be/ZeHYHUgkKl0?si=4STokvrRksaViq1p Sorry about the Spanish subtitles, but it's the only upload available 🤷🏻♀️ (also on Britbox, sans Spanish)
TWO-fer-TUESDAYS are BACK!
And everyone is welcome 👋🏼
MAY 27, 2025 has both #Britcom and #BritishCops
#CouplingUK 🎭
6:00pm ET - s2e7 - DRESSED
6:30pm ET - s2e8 - NAKED
(Peacock, Prime/Freevee, Hoopla, Roku)
#TVMysteries VERA 💀🇬🇧🚔
Season 8, Ep. 3 - HOME
https://youtu.be/cZZnw8eEu8w?si=A_-e_aEgAqgx3W7Z
(also on Britbox, for those who have it)
#WatchPartyAlert #Comedy #GinaBellman #JackDavenport #BrendaBlethyn #WatchParty #BritishDetectives #Mystery
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Chapters 27 and 28 of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats
#solarpunk #hopepunk #clifi #book #bookstodon #novel #fiction #scifi #climate #adaptation #migration #mystery #thriller #booksky #amwriting #authorsky #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers #PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #climatefiction
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#TVMysteries is back Tuesday, 7/15/25 at 8pm ET with more VERA 💀
Join us as we start Season 10, ep. 1 with BLOOD WILL TELL
https://youtu.be/I3TuxJZEloI?si=VTmMeYIQ8thZktWQ (also on Britbox)
#VeraStanhope #Mystery #BritishDetectives
(PS - no #CouplingUK because it's #LaEsoterica week with @analgesicsleep)
#WatchPartyAlert
Two for Tuesday is back!
6/24/25 #Britcom + #Britcops
#CouplingUK 🎭 #Comedy
6:00p ET - s3e3 - REMEMBER THIS
6:30p ET - s3e4 - THE FRECKLE, THE KEY, AND THE COUPLE WHO WEREN'T
📺 (Prime/Freevee, Peacock, Hoopla, Roku)
#TVMysteries 💀
8:00p ET - VERA & her crew are back at it in Northumberland
#Mystery 🪦 #VeraStanhope
s9e3 - COLD RIVER
https://youtu.be/eU20RB5N8Wo?si=aZZZ4Zhvlsb63dv0 (or Britbox)
ALL WELCOME for either or both events 📅 Mirth, murder, and misdirection = Tuesdays at Chez Squirrel