My Tuesday post where I’ll ‘tease‘ you with the cover, blurb, and first paragraph of one of the advanced reader’s copies from my own TBR.
This book is a title I downloaded from NetGalley.
Today, Tuesday December 7, 2021 I want to introduce one of the ARCs on my TBR.
This novel will be published on January 24, 2022
the sequel to “Bring Her Home” which I reviewed here on the blog.
Publisher: Bookouture
ISBN: 9781803140605 – ASIN: B09JL1218S – 356 pages
1) This is the 2nd book in a crime series and I enjoyed the 1st title.
2) I’m eager to read more about the unlikely partners, Jessie Boyle and Seamus Keneally.
3) The West Ireland setting.
4) The first book in the series referenced ancient Irish legends and it sounds like this one does too.
“A small boy stood in the clearing amid the oak and hazel trees and stared at the macabre object his dog had just excavated from the soil of the forest floor, gripping the animal’s collar to restrain it from tearing the severed human hand apart.”
Is this a title that you would consider adding to your TBR pile?
Why, or why not?
Have you read anything else by this author?
Let me know in the comments.
Ulysses Temper – ex-soldier, ex-husband, from the East End of London. An unexpected inheritance in 1953 sees him owning a large house in Florence, Italy. He and his older friend, Cressy, along with the parrot and the little girl, drive to Florence in an old van which they affectionately call Betsy. Together they turn the home into a pensione (a small hotel).
“Still Life” is a novel that is best to read slowly, to savour every poetic word. The scenes in Tuscany make the reader experience the languid pace of a hot Tuscan summer.
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In the past month I’ve read 
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And this month I received two crushing blows. Both NetGalley and Edelweiss 
Do any of these titles sound good to you?
This year I”m going through the entire alphabet, one letter per month. For November 2021, the eleventh month, I’m listing all of my favourite novels that begin with the letter ‘K‘. I am choosing these titles from the books I’ve read since I began blogging seriously – almost six years ago (when I retired). There are 2 books recommended here (for some reason K is not a popular letter when it comes to book titles.)
The novel moved along at a fast pace, and the plot developed in such a way that kept me glued to the pages.
S.A. Dunphy (born 1973) is a child protection expert, author, journalist, musician, broadcaster and teacher. He is married, has two children, and is also a proud grandad. He worked as a child and social care worker throughout Ireland for fifteen years, and still practices on a consultancy basis. He is currently Head of the Social Care Department at Waterford College of Further Education. Dunphy is a multi-instrumentalist, performing live regularly. Shane writes both narrative non-fiction and crime fiction.
Callie Taggart is a registered nurse. Due to the fact that she also cares for her mentally unstable brother, Noah, she is yearning for some peace, some rest. The pandemic lockdown was grueling. All the more so because of her profession. When she sees an advertisement for a job as a residential carer, she thinks her prayers have been answered. The job is located at a rural country cottage. Here, with a partner, she will care for the damaged Frey. Largely non-verbal, Frey is in his twenties. He does not look anyone in the eye and displays many of the traits of a person with severe autism and or obsessive compulsive disorder. He is very brilliant in some ways, he is artistic, he has to have everything he comes into contact with to be excessively clean. He hates any disruption to his routine, and most of all, he is terrified of being abandoned.
This is the fourth novel I’ve read by this author. I loved them all. This time around the author explores care-giving, and how those in need of care were affected by the pandemic. Also, she explores a dysfunctional family, and how the withholding of maternal love for one child impacted the entire family. How having a ‘favorite’ child, affects the family dynamic.
Cassandra Parkin has a Masters degree in English Literature from York University, and has been writing fiction all her life – mostly as Christmas and birthday presents for friends and family. She grew up in Hull, is married with two children, and lives in a small but perfectly-formed village in East Yorkshire. Her first book “New World Fairy Tales” won the 2011 Scott Prize for Short Stories. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her recent novels were published by Legend Press.
THREE ARTICLES on the debate regarding listening to vs. reading a book. I am particularly interested in this topic because I tried audiobooks, but found they weren’t for me. I wonder, was it the book? the narrator? or just the medium itself?
A neuroscientist compares the brain benefits of reading vs. listening to books.
Yorkshire born, Judi Daykin has lived, worked and made theatre in Norfolk for the last forty years. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and her debut novel was shortlisted for the Little, Brown UEA writer’s prize in 2019.
Fictionophile 
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