Linda's Reads

I don't recall how I came upon  The Cleopatra Fox Mysteries by C.J. Archer. I believe I saw a list of good mysteries via email and as I was looking to see if Hoopla had any on audio this series came up as similar. I'm glad I found it. The audio series has several things I enjoy: a good mystery, an interesting setting, fun characters, and a narrator with an accent. In book one, Murder at the Mayfair Hotel we meet Cleo Fox, orphaned young lady whose grandmother recently died and she is now alone in the world. Alone until her estranged uncle invites her to stay in the fancy London hotel they own and manage. When a guest is found dead, the adventure begins. Cleo, young and rash, decides it's up to her to solve the case, for various reasons including the hotel's reputation and fear that Scotland Yard will overlook suspects because of nepotism. I also listened to book #2 Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse and #3 Murder in the Drawing Room. I did enjoy them all but I liked the...

 Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes https://www.mariankeyes.com/ https://www.mariankeyes.com/books/last-chance-saloon/ The book description from the author's website: " Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they’ve been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism? Sure, Tara’s got a boyfriend – but only because she’s terrified of spending five minutes alone. Katherine, on the other hand, has a neatness fetish that won’t let anyone too close to mess up her life. And Fintan? Well, he has everything. Until he learns that without your health, you’ve got nothing . . . All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they’re about to discover that if you don’t change your life, life has a way of changing you . . ." I own a paperback copy of this book, although I'm not sure where I got it - from a book sale or my daughter passed it down to me after she was do...