ShellieLovesBooks
Book reviews featuring history, historical fiction, and mysteries, as well as my thoughts on all things bookish.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Why I Now Love Audiobooks and Can't Live Without Them
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Can't Wait Wednesday: A Midwinter Murder by Verity Bright (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book 20)
For this week's Can't Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, I'm featuring, A Midwinter Murder, by Verity Bright. I am so behind in this series. I love it and this is already book 20. I want to continue reading them in order so even though I'd love to dive into this one now for the season, I'll wait. But I'm happy to promote it. Happy Reading this week. I hope you've found something you can't wait for!
Historical Cozy Mysteries
Instead, the season of goodwill turns frosty as she finds the Duke’s studious secretary, Mr Porritt, dead in the storeroom. Clasped in his chilly hand is a golden pendant in the shape of a rose. The Duke denies ever having seen the necklace before. But Eleanor can see the lies in his eyes… Did it belong to his mysteriously absent wife?
Hugh and Eleanor must ditch relaxing with hot cocoa in favour of interviewing the Duke’s holiday guests. Every suspect has a secret they’d kill to keep: the socialite with the false name, the Sir with a questionable inheritance and the husband hiding a crack in his marriage.
As the blizzard outside rages, Auldwyke Hall becomes cut off. Trapped by the snow, Eleanor and Hugh must skate around the increasingly secretive Duke to unwrap the identity of the killer. But does the answer to the secretary’s murder lie with a ghost of Christmas past? And when an attempt is made on the Duke’s life too, they realise the killer is closer than they think…
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Top Ten Tuesday: December Freebie- Books I Didn't Get To This Year (but wished I had)
This week's Top Ten Tuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl is a December freebie topic. I decided to list books I wished I'd read but hadn't gotten to this year. It is possible I will get to some of them before January 1st but not likely. December is crazy when you are a teacher and a mother and I already have several books ahead of these now that I want to finish. I think this is why I love blogging and reading others' blogs. We all have enormous piles of books we can't possibly finish. And that makes me feel semi-normal, lol. Happy Reading everyone...here's to new goals for 2025.
(No links....no time! But at least you can compare :) Let me know if you think one is worth adding to my current December 2024 list.
1. The Seeker by S. G. MacLean
2. What Angels Fear by C. S. Harris
3. Death Down the Aisle (Lady Eleanor Swift Mysteries) by Verity Bright
4. The Hundred Years War by Hourly History Authors
5. Philippa of Hainault by Kathryn Warner
6. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
7. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Chrisite
8. The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
9. This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber
10. Christmas in Nuala (Inspector de Silva Mysteries) by Harriet Steel
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Stacking the Shelves #42
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Third Girl by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot Book 35) Read Christie Selection November 2024
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