- Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
- Darkside by Belinda Bauer
- Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer
I enjoyed this trilogy of crime novels set in a small village in Exmoor, although the fact that so many serial killers could target one small village stretches credibility somewhat. I’m still getting over COVID so needed something easy but that would keep me interested and this hit the mark.
- A Christmas Cornucopia by Mark Forsyth
I picked this up after being intrigued by the opening paragraph from @LadybirdDaphne and really enjoyed it. A nice short read with lots of interesting, myth-busting, Christmas-related facts.
105. Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
106. The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer
I was planning on working my way through the rest of Belinda Bauer’s books but really didn’t enjoy this tale of a student with Asperger’s who thinks he has identified a suspicious death when dissecting a body as part of an anatomy course. I also disliked her next book, another serial killer book, where a child is way too involved in trying to catch said serial killer.
107. Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza
15 years after catching the Nine Elms serial killer, Kate Marshall has left the Met and is working as a Criminology lecturer. When a copy cat killer begins to replicate the Nine Elms crimes Kate suddenly decides that she is going to be a PI and ropes her assistant into her nonsense. Not good.
108. A Spark of Life by Jodi Picoult
Centred around a shooting at a female health centre in the US. The examination of views on abortion from both sides was a bit clumsy. I thought I had a sense of how bad the situation was in the US but I learned some horrifying facts, the worst of which for me was that Drs were legally required to make a woman seeking an abortion aware of certain medical facts, I say facts but they are flat out falsehoods that the Dr’s are forced to trot out. And this was in the days when Roe vs Wade was still in place. Horrifying.