December 2021 Reads

So, I only got through seven books in December, but in my defense, I have four great excuses for my lack of production:  Coming in at well over nine hundred pages, Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone counts for at least two books;  I had a wicked stomach bug for a week;  Grammies have gifts to buy;  Jesus is the reason for the season.   Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon The ninth book in Gabaldon’s Outlander series finds the Fraser family reunited during the American Revolution. It’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie Fraser have found each other across time and space and […]

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The Heron’s Cry – Book Review

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder—Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter’s broken vases. Then another body is found—killed in a similar way. Matthew must tread carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community. Ann Cleeves’ 30+ books have been translated into twenty languages. She is wildly popular in the UK and two of her book series have been made into multi-season […]

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