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Escapist reading for me. I like the main character Joe . I‘ve read a few about him now. This was an ok book but I didn‘t like the ending at all.

A darkly funny crime story set in Glasgow. Trigger warning for violence. DI Alison McOist (Ally McOist in Glasgow is a constant joke) is suspected by colleagues of being dodgy but is pulled into various crimes in which a local car wash seems central. When a local gangster who Ally wants to nail is interested in the car wash, the plot thickens. Really great characters + a dark plot meant this was a cracking read altho very dark and violent.

He really believed it was a madcap game. A joke. A dare, played out between old friends.

#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl

A well-off older woman is found dead with a scold‘s bridle (a punishment device) on her head. Initially thought to be suicide, her death is then thought to be murder once her will is revealed. I haven‘t read Walters in a long time and was a little concerned I would no longer like her, but needn‘t have been. This is a well-crafted mystery with good development of characters and subplots.

June
#BookSpin - Past Lying (Val McDermid)
#DoubleSpin - Master of Revels (Nicole Galland)

@TheAromaofBooks

#TopReads2025 for May goes to 2 favorite books that I couldn‘t decide which one I loved more, so they both are picked! “Big Bad Wool” by Leonie Swann and “Dungeon Crawler Carl” by Matt Dinniman are quite possibly as opposite as you can get but were both fun! One has talking sheep who solve a murder, the other has a talking cat surviving a Hunger Games-esque quest with her boxer wearing bodyguard. I‘d highly recommend both!! 🐑🔎🐈👑

I‘m not sure what all happened this month that I only finished four books, but in any case the tagged book was my favorite. #wrapup

repost for @AsYouWish:

Congrats everyone who finished all the words in May or any words because you got books off your TBRs! Remember this is all year long, so words can be completed at any time!

2025 Theme: my favorite movies!

Now who is ready to figure out June‘s #WickedWords Movie?
- Musical
- Italy
- Roof Top
- Beach
- Love

Feel free to guess, I will reveal at the end of the month!

Catching up in the Karen Pirie series, which I really enjoy. This one finds Karen and her team trying to investigate a case during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. It has a book with a book element too. You can‘t ever tell how everything is going to come together in the end, which works for me in a crime novel.