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#12Booksof2023 #September

I think I missed a day. Oops.

In September, I started to get my reading mojo back and my top pick was the fifth book in the Fiona Griffiths series. I highly recommend starting at the beginning.

Out of the eight Railway Detective books that I have read by Edward Marston, this was by far the best. It was enjoyable from start to finish. While I had an idea part way through that the evidence was not all that it seemed, the way the story progressed made me dismiss my theory. This book is all that one can expect from an excellent historical police procedural murder mystery and with a great ending I would class it as a cosy read.

This is more of a series review. The Deepest Grave is the last book published and I loved it like I did the others. Bingham has said there will be another but I‘m not holding my breath so I will call this complete, at least for now.
Fiona is a police officer in South Wales, but as a teenager she was hospitalized and diagnosed with Cotard‘s Syndrome. Fiona is different from your average copper and I love her. I also love the ⬇️

This book has been on my shelves for ages but I am glad I finally read it, it is a well told story.

In a Maltese immigrant neighborhood in Wales, Dolores grows up with her five sisters. It‘s a hard life with a gambling, abusing father and a mother who is loving but not able to take good care of all six.
Years later the sisters reunite for a funeral and Dolores discovers that her truth is not the only one.

#booker #ukroadtrip #cardiff

#WeeklyForecast 19/23

I am trying to read an #InternationalBooker shortlisted book a week and am now in the middle of Time Shelter. Afterwards I‘ll read some oldies off my TBR before I dive into my new books for #CampToB23.
The tagged one was shortlisted for the #BookerPrize years ago, a #Persephone just because and The Mandibles because I love Shriver!

#TalkingToTheDead #HarryBingham #BookSpinBingo

First off Fiona Griffiths finds a young woman undone by drugs and prostitution, her six-year-old daughter dead alongside her. Then she finds the platinum credit card of a very wealthy--and long dead--steel tycoon. What is a heroin-addicted hooker doing with the credit card of a well-known and powerful man who died months ago?

#lovestory #FearlessFebruary

We arrive around nine thirty. A civilian vehicle, an Astra enters the car park with us. The woman who gets out of the Astra wears a red-and-white bobble hat and says she's an Export Manager. She doesn't look like a dealer in illegal arms, but maybe she didn't know that's what she was. Or maybe arms dealers like to wear Christmassy bobble hats.

Day 5 #20series20days @Andrew65

According to LibraryThing I have 2 books to catch up on!

Neither of these two short stories are in the database so I‘m tagging them under the first book. I received both of these when I signed up for the author‘s new letter, I think.

The Night Beat is about Fiona Griffiths‘ first night on patrol. There isn‘t a lot of development so it‘s best read after book one, IMO. I enjoyed it.

Lev in Glasgow should be read after book two. It‘s his POV on something he does for Fiona in the second book.