Thanks for the recommendation! I actually have his With a Bare Bodkin in my stack to try and have been looking forward to it. You have probably moved it up my virtual stack! I had planned to use it for H but a book I had checked out of the library “won” that week.😉 We had a hard time picking our authors for this month because there are so many great Golden Age authors. Our hope is people will explore the categories a bit and find something that they enjoy. That said, I love recommendations. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43155323-with-a-bare-bodkin?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Yv5q51Z0ZL&rank=1 I just finished listening to The Last Divide by JS Dewes which is a @Robin M recommendation. It’s good, as in 5* good. I would describe it as a cross between the Expanse and The Linesman. Planning to listen to the next one soon! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205794-the-last-watch Speaking of The Linesman, my purchase request from at least two years ago was answered for Stars Divided which is by the same author. That was unexpected and sort of forced me to do a reread of the first in the Stars Uncharted series because I remembered nothing! They were both enjoyable but I doubt I will be reading that series again. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43878803-stars-beyond

I finished my first ever book yesterday by Miles Burton aka John Rhodes who was a super prolific Golden Age author. http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/rhodebiog.htm I have to say The Secret of High Eldersham was a great read and moved through plot points at an incredibly rapid rate so it was impossible to get bored as long as you are following along…….I read the first 20 pages while falling asleep and ended up starting over because I missed too much about the murdered publican. I will definitely be reading more by this author! FYI, This book is also on the list of 100 best Classic Crime books found in this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34136879-the-story-of-classic-crime-in-100-books From Goodreads……Samuel Whitehead, the new landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard are called to the scene, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted. Detective-Inspector Young forms a theory about the case so utterly impossible that merely entertaining the suspicion makes him doubt his own sanity. Surrounded by sinister forces beyond his understanding, and feeling the need of rational assistance, he calls on a brilliant amateur and ‘living encyclopedia’, Desmond Merrion. Soon Merrion falls for the charms of a young woman in the village, Mavis Owerton. But does Mavis know more about the secrets of the village than she is willing to admit.

Glad you enjoyed reading The Dry. It’s a book I have looked at but never checked out and had actually already put it on “the list” for later this year. I read her book The Survivers recently and it was excellent. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53305127-the-survivors?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Hb9RiD2PIf&rank=3

So The Gilded Wolves was not a great read in terms of recommending it to all as a great read. It was entertaining enough to listen to while sewing and at this point I will continue through the series because my library has them on audio and I need them for my book chain. I think the series it reminds me of the most is Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine if that helps at all. A group of friends with a mission to restore one of their group to his rightful place as heir to one of the great houses in a post Napoleon magical country. I enjoyed the world that was created quite a bit. There were mild s*x scenes m/f and some romances m/m.

I hope you have a great holiday! @Lady Florida. I have started listening to a YA fantasy series that I think someone here may have read, perhaps @melmichigan?. The Gilded Wolves https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863498-the-gilded-wolves is the first book and I need the second for my book chain. So far I am enjoying it. It’s not unique, more of a mash up of several fantasy series I have read but it’s entertaining. It also has a pretty cover. 😂

Thank you Robin! I sort of immersed in romantic suspence this week. I reread This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (awesome dolphin ) and found the first book in one of Terri Blackstock’s trilogies, Truth Stained Lies, to be engaging enough to read on. I sort of returned to my roots for a couple of days with both a Harliquin RS book and a Love Inspired featuring dogs. Add Lynette Eason to the rec’s for good Christian RS authors if anyone is looking for a book. I started one of my Phyllis Whitney purchases. Feather on the Moon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8120522-feather-on-the-moon so for rates as a pleasant read overall …….. if the story line can be considered pleasant, the main character’s 3 yo daughter disappeared from a grocery store shopping cart 7 years ago and she has just received a phone from someplace near Vancouver that a child is staying on an estate there could be her daughter. I am not far but the pages turn easily. I am close to halfway in JD Robb’s Abandoned in Death. It’s good but I am stuck reading in my browser which really slows things down for me because I need WiFi to do it. A year ago I wondered how publishers and libraries would get around their limits on new releases via the ebook world to library customers. Reading in your browser appears to be my answer. On audio I have continued my Peter Grainger DS Smith love……I used him for my G. I have the next one on hold and am currently listening to Alafair Burke’s Find Me. It’s entertaining currently but something tells me I am going to hate the ending. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53175311-find-me

We pass through Mims occasionally. I never knew any of the history so thank you.

Robin, Thank you for the thread and the great links! I need to find a good she did what to read this week and pick out a G book as I have many. I am having a lot of fun reading the appropriate letter each week. Negin, Love the meme! I am finally reading The Shivering Sands. Really enjoying it but it’s taking me down so many rabbit holes. My family has vacationed in that area many times and I am feeling like the most un observant person ever as I have never seen the remains a shipwreck off that coast! I keep wondering if we simply never did a beach walk at low tide which seems unlikely…….I think this means we need to visit there again. I finished my reread/relisten of Nemisis Games yesterday. It’s one of my favorite books in The Expanse series as Holden and the crew all go off and do their own thing and return having made something new……and Clarissa. I like her quite a bit and probably shouldn’t.

Glad to hear Abandoned in Death is a good one. I appear to be next on the hold’s list so I need to do some reading as I have quite a bit checked out right now. I listened to a witchy contemporary romance today that has been on all sorts of lists including one of Kareni’s recent links. The Ex Hex https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56554626-the-ex-hex. Fun and light, just what I needed so I gave it a 5* lol.

I am currently reading a mystery by a Golden Age mystery by J. Jefferson Farjean called The Z Murders. This book will take care of two of Robin’s challenges……..my F for A to Z and back and a Z for Bookology. It’s sort of a mad cap race around the England following a murderer who leaves little Z’s by his corpses. Most of the time it’s pretty good and the main character is just plain old likable even if I still have no clue why he is racing against the police to solve the crimes as his part in this was finding the first body. Perhaps the mysterious girl……she is by is side one minute and has gone poof the next! A great deal of money is being spent on taxi fare…….https://swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/the-z-murders-j-jefferson-farjeon-19

Thank you Robin! Ohhhh Jayne Ann Krentz! I have one of those to read in my stack already.The third book in the Fog Lake trilogy just found its way into my stack. Fog Lake is a very XFile type place and I have really enjoyed this series……https://www.goodreads.com/series/261361-fogg-lake I finished listening to an entertaining bbc audio of The Moonstone last night with Clive Richards leading the cast. So Victoria Holt and The Shivering Sands is now topping my stack. I grabbed a book with Castle in the title out of the Prime library to move my Bookchain on after deciding that I don’t love Anna Castle’s Francis Bacon series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843064-death-by-disputation enough to read two in a row! The Secret of Dunhaven Castle has been an enjoyable book in terms of the pages flip easily as long as I ignore some things that just don’t work that way irl. An American woman mysteriously inherits a castle in Scotland that comes with a mysterious timepiece. I am almost done and doubt I will continue with this light Kindle Unlimited series any time soon because while enjoyable I am not invested. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54590312-the-secret-of-dunhaven-castle

Airs Above Ground is a great one! I haven’t been talking about it because I read it relatively recently. My sentimental fave is The Moonspinners because it was my first. Lots of people love This Rough Magic best. I finished reading Armadale earlier today. Overall I liked it quite a bit and I am glad I persevered though all 700 pages! It was serialized over 13 months......13 months to reach the end. What patience! I sort of understand the wordy repetitiveness with that in mind. After finishing I sort of sat there and thought how much it had in common with Woman in White in terms of the feeling at the end. I am going to go and read some other authors and my E book. I will return to Wilkie soon, Actually really soon as I need to listen to The Moonstone in the next week or so.

Sounds like a great addition to the list! I have only read her Saga’s like the C of E series......unfortunately she doesn’t seem to have her Gothic’s in a Kindle version or I would happily try one for $2.99 or less. 😉. I set a price limit on my purchases for the crime spree.......that way my decision making is somewhat easy. I recently bought This Rough Magic which I remember enjoying too. The Moon Spinners has always been my favorite. I just checked Pride of the Peacock out on Overdrive. I had it marked and your recommendation moved it to the top of my list! @Robin M You are off to a great start this year! @melmichiganI finished listening to The Sanitorium https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56935099-the-sanatorium earlier today. I enjoyed it overall but there were a few medical? type things that were rather horrifying that may stay with me longer than I would like. The audiobook was well done. The Who was a surprise which is always good in terms of what I call stranded together Murder mysteries. I guess my rec is if it’s Overdrive via your library try it as you probably enjoy it it but if you are spending audible credits I would hesitate.

@MothersweetsI will be looking for Madeline Brent now. The Tregaron name is somehow familiar so I might have read it......The Moonraker cover is awesome and fits my accidental moon theme! 😉 I love all these covers......

@Lady Florida.I am looking forward to hearing what you think of Murder at the Abbey and the rest of the series. At the moment that series is paused because I keep buying myself more cheap kindle books for the Crime Spree so should be reading those. At some point I need to subscribe to Unlimited for a month or two and read some of the great series they seem to have now including this one! @KareniThose links really added to my hold’s list. So many fun paranormal mysteries to try! @tuesdayschildI was just looking at Fallen into the Pit so was sort of surprised to see it appear here. I might be trying it.....on my maybe list since I can get it from a library.😉 @Robin MI love those old covers so much. I can’t wait to dig in to the stories! I am still plugging along reading Armadale and enjoying it overall. It’s a bit wordy.....you can definately tell it was released in episodes and he was paid for length I suspect! I started Part 3 last night and hope to finish tomorrow night. I am reading it for about an hour a day. I am also reading a Francis Bacon mystery by Anna Castle which I am enjoying. Death by Disputation is the second in the series and I am finding it a much more ......captivating I guess, than the first in the series. I think I like Anna Castle which is good because I bought a box set of her Moriarty mysteries awhile ago. 😂 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843064-death-by-disputation I just started listening to a modern day new release gothic The Sanatorium which is set in an abandoned TB hospital turned luxury resort, decorated to reflect the hospital which is not my idea of luxury btw. People are disappearing at this point and the Swiss Alps setting is pretty intriguing. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56935099-the-sanatorium

From the moment Romatic Suspense in February was decided I have been collecting books for the Gothic part of romatic suspense. Gothic is a genre my mother loved and she certainally passed her love my way! When I had read everything mystery in the children’s section at our small library she handed me a Mary Stewart (Moon spinners) and I was hooked. I kept the tradition going for Dd and gave her Mary Stewart’s too. My mom also gave me Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Holt and many more. New discovery on the gothic front is Dorothy Eden who I just ran into this week and added Ravenscroft https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3347099-ravenscroft to my list. I put my gothic hoard into my currently reading on GR if anyone wants to look…https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51042385-mumtotwo I can’t wait to start reading all these awesome gothic mysteries. I have a stack by Terri Blackstock (an under explored author for me) ready to go when I want something more modern. I am giving her Moonlighters series a try first but have quite a variety on hold. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15739201-truth-stained-lies?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=NpsastdFgl&rank=1 I have Wilkie Collins The Moonstone waiting for a relisten so I can compare the original shivering sands with Victoria Holt’s version. Something I have wanted to do for a few years. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18955630-the-shivering-sands I seem to have a Moon theme going on here….maybe I need to start a 10 collection! Lol Finally, if anyone wants a great YA oldy from my days in the children’s section Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall might be the Book for you. This was my intro to Gothic way back when. Boarding school scary…..great stuff. I read it many times! .https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538757.Down_a_Dark_Hall?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=oCHIXZ9U9h&rank=2

Thank you Robin! I am so excited to have a month devoted to Romatic suspense and want to share some truly awesome gothic book covers that are on my to be read list.....

@tuesdayschildI am now starting book two. One thing in favor of continuing to read this book which I really wanted to read last November is the plot has been easy to step away from and read other things! So a chapter or two a day is the new plan. There is another book by Wilkie that I plan to fit in The Law and the Lady https://www.wilkie-collins.info/books_lawlady.htm. A relisten to the Moonstone is planned also.

I started reading Armadale by Wilkie Collins yesterday for my official Grandfather of crime read. Somehow I didn’t twig to the fact it’s over 700 pages long. I am reading it in a huge Complete Works of Wilkie Collins on my Kindle and have actually been worrying about my lack of progress. I can’t tell how far I am beyond having marked where it should end on the bar graph thing and making little progress! It’s a slow read in many ways. I think I am roughly a quarter of the way through. Not much happening and nothing so far bears any resemblance to the book description given here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777108.Armadale

I really enjoy the Incryptid series and have read them all. Like you I am not as fond of the last couple in the series (I don’t think I feel the connection with Sarah that I do with the others) but am looking forward to the new release. The new release sounds like it will be fun and answer some questions. I have read most of the Wayward books.....I think I have skipped the last two. I am done for now. I like October Daye well enough I just started that series too late and catching up never happens. It’s much easier to series read when you just need to put the new release on hold. Sparrow Hill just didn’t click. I set that one aside early.

@Robin M I’m looking forward to hearing your opinion of the Drew Hayes series. He writes my Fred the Vampire Accountant books and my library already owns them. Life is too short to read books we don’t enjoy....😉

Thank you for the thread Robin! My official planned D book has a great title Death by Disputation by Anna Castle. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843064-death-by-disputationI haven’t actually started reading it but I enjoyed the first in the series so it should by a good read. Due to library due dates and Bookchain constraints I may end up having to finish my likely E book first or simply use Death Comes to Bath which I need to read first for my Bookchain. 😂 Such a trivial problem! I read The Kinsman Universe by Ilona Andrews https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41027235-the-kinsman-universe and didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as anticipated. It was a trio of novellas and all could have been ............much more, I guess. It All Started with a Dog was the second in Julia London’s Lucky Dog contemporary romance series. She is awesome at meet cute with some dogs thrown in type of romances but this book was a bit too cute in places. I gave it 4* because I thought it was a fun concept and did the doggie concept well but there were lots of underlying prejudices that were displayed as virtues in the book that I couldn’t help but wince at....to be fair the characters did learn but I didn’t love the characters I was supposed to. So loved the dogs but not the people. Maybe I should switch Goodreads to a 3*! Took care of that.😉. If it hadn’t been an audiobook I might not have finished it which for an easy read is rare! Lolhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56552935-it-started-with-a-dog I am slightly more than halfway through Nora Roberts latest The Becoming https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269133-the-becoming as an audiobook. Great entertainment and I spent a couple more hours than intended planning my book chains etc last night because I didn’t want to turn it off. Which explains why I am plodding along in my Baynard Kendrick mystery Blind Man’s Bluff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8483455-blind-man-s-bluff I was fortunate that my library added a Duncan MacLaine mystery into its collection last year for me to try. This old series with its blind detective, support staff, and service dogs just plain intrigues me. Set in NYC this book is set around a failed 1930 bank by someone who was actually living it. Yay for golden age authors....the setting is accurate even if the detective is a bit of a super hero! I have been checking Amazon and picking up further Kindle versions as they are discounted and have amassed 5 more in recent months. I am looking forward to reading more by this WWI vet who because his BF was blind (war injury) spent decades working with charities for the benefit of the blind.

I went back to my crime spree short stories last night and finished a couple of interesting ones. The Burglar’s Story by WS Gilbert was really well staged. Great humor in a simple plot the young burglar is caught by a rickety old man who turns the tables on him masterfully. Made him strip and left him naked in the house. He had to confess to a Bobby in order to be rescued! Gilbert is the Gilbert from Gilbert and Sullivan musicals. I hope I can find a full length mystery by him….haven’t looked yet! Not sure when this was written but before 1911. Cheating the Gallows by Isreal Zangwell is a grandfather’s of crime entry. Written in 1893 this one features two male roommates in a boarding house who are never seen together. One disappears after a robbery and is thought to have escaped with the loot. The other plods on eventually getting engaged to the woman his roommate was engaged to. Yep, same dude. It was pretty good. I tried to read a longer story by Zangwell that had been serialized and decided to give up as by the third day it was feeling convoluted. Apparently he kept changing The Who Did It to avoid who his readers thought did it via the mail he was receiving…..he made it end up being the one character not a single person guessed!

I started listening to An Accidental Death by Peter Grainger today. It’s good. Thank you for the recommendation @tuesdayschild

I really enjoyed Bullet Train!