What Have You Been Reading Lately?

What’s been on your nightstand or Kindle lately? I’ve been wrapping up the first few drafts of the sixth Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery, so I’ve been in writer mode for the first part of this year. I have some really good mysteries that I’d like to share.

My year started off with Jenn McKinlay’s Fondant Fumble, the perfect book for pre-Super Bowl reading. I love her cupcake shop mysteries. She’s got a great quirky cast of characters.

I was also fortunate to read an early copy of Janna Rollins’s Goats Just Wanna Have Fun: A Zen Goat Mystery. This is such a fun series, and this one takes place at the county fair.

I read some true crime in Framed John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. It’s a good collection of essays about the wrongly convicted.

I read a short story collection, Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon, edited by Josh Pachter. I enjoyed the collection with its variety of crime fiction stories.

I read Lisa Q. Matthews’s The Jig is Up in time for St. Patrick’s Day. What a fun series set in a town called Shamrock.

And Darci Hannah is a new to me author. I like her Beacon Bakeshop mysteries. She has a fun setting, including a haunted lighthouse, and a quirky cast of characters. I love her Newfoundland sidekick. I also enjoyed her Food and Spirits Mysteries. I enjoyed it, and I don’t usually read a lot of stories with paranormal elements. A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor was well done with lots of twists. It kept me guessing until the end.

I just finished Lee and Andrew Child’s In Too Deep. This was was action packed with lots of twists.