The Sunday Salon In Addition To Dial One Thousand For Murder... Or Iii Whodunnit's Of A Dissimilar Sort Worth Burning A Candle On Both Ends...

Welcome to The Sun Post (which is hosted past times Kim at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer)! I've got hence many corking books inwards my TBR pile too on my library reserve listing that I can't read them fast enough! I only finished The Lying Game past times Ruth Ware too actually enjoyed it! Look for my review this week, but only to allow yous know I would definitely give it iv stars, almost iv 1/2. The in conclusion 50 pages or hence I was belongings my breath too feverishly turning the pages! After reading The Lying Game, which is a suspense thriller with a murder mystery at its' heart,  I was looking for to a greater extent than "murder mysteries" too constitute these 3 books. The start is a classic "Agatha Christie" type story, but the other ii withdraw hold elements of a whodunnit, but seem to withdraw hold the whodunnit instant to the even out (and characters) surrounding the murders... Up for a adept whodunnit with a twist? Read on...

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz... Here's the Kirkus Review, A preternaturally brainy novel within a novel that’s both a pastiche too a deconstruction of golden-age whodunits.

Magpie Murders, bestselling writer Alan Conway’s 9th novel virtually Greek/German detective Atticus Pünd, kicks off with the funeral of Mary Elizabeth Blakiston, devoted housekeeper to Sir Magnus Pye, who’s been constitute at the bottom of a steep staircase she’d been vacuuming inwards Pye Hall, whose every external door was locked from the inside. Her demise has all the signs of an accident until Sir Magnus himself follows her inwards death, beheaded with a sword customarily displayed with a total adjust of armor inwards Pye Hall. Conway's editor, Susan Ryeland, does her methodical best to figure out which of many guilty secrets Conway has provided the suspects inwards Saxby-on-Avon—Rev. Robin Osborne too his wife, Henrietta; Mary’s son, Robert, too his fiancee, Joy Sanderling; Joy’s boss, surgeon Emilia Redwing, too her elderly father; antiques dealers Johnny too Gemma Whitehead; Magnus’ twin sister, Clarissa; too Lady Frances Pye too her inevitable lover, investor Jack Dartford—is most probable to conceal a killer, but she’s soundless undecided when she comes to the terminate of the manuscript too realizes the in conclusion chapter is missing. Since Conway inwards inconveniently unavailable, Susan, inwards the instant one-half of the book, attempts to solve the instance herself, questioning Conway’s ain associates—his sister, Claire; his ex-wife, Melissa; his ex-lover, James Taylor; his neighbor, hedge fund director John White—and slow comes to the realization that Conway has cast virtually all of them every bit fictional avatars inwards Magpie Murders too that the novel, too indeed Conway’s entire fictional oeuvre, is filled with a mind-boggling diverseness of games whose solutions cast novel low-cal on murders fictional too nonfictional.

Fans who soundless mourn the passing of Agatha Christie, the model who’s evoked hither inwards dozens of telltale details, volition welcome this wildly inventive homage/update/commentary every bit the most fiendishly clever puzzle—make that ii puzzles—of the year. Stuffed with smarts too storytelling sorcery, this is a piece of occupation of astonishing breadth too brilliance.

I run to honey reading Agatha Christie when I was young! This sounds similar it has all the elements of an Agatha Christie yarn too it is inwards my TBR pile now. Published past times Harper Collins and available now!

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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore past times Matthew Sullivan... Here's the Kirkus Review, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 adult woman must revisit a 20-year-old tragedy afterward a immature human being commits suicide inwards the bookstore where she works.

Lydia Smith loves her project at the Bright Ideas bookstore inwards Denver, puttering with the shelves too hovering over her gentle BookFrogs, the wanderers too dreamers who pass their days with the stacks. When 1 of her BookFrogs, Joey Molina, hangs himself inwards the store, she’s devastated too hence shocked when she learns he’s bequeathed his meager possessions to her. When she discovers that he’s left messages to her inwards the pages of his books, she’s puzzled too begins trying to slice together his in conclusion days with the assist of his friend Lyle. The reappearance of her childhood friend Raj Patel shortly puts Joey on the dorsum burner, however, every bit questions virtually her estranged begetter come upwardly to light. It all points dorsum to the Hammerman, who, spell Lydia was on a sleepover every bit a child, brutally killed her friend too her friend’s household unit of measurement with a hammer, leaving Lydia alive, hiding nether the sink. The Hammerman was never caught, too Lydia seeks answers from the now-retired detective who handled the case, but she may non desire to withdraw heed what he has to say. Turns out he ever suspected her begetter was the killer but was stopped from pursuing that path, fifty-fifty inwards the human face upwardly of around compelling evidence, too he’s never allow go of his suspicion. After all, why did the killer allow Lydia go afterward killing a 10-year-old immature adult woman too her parents, too could Joey somehow go connected? Debut writer Sullivan presents a nicely paced tale virtually a horrifying incident with a adult woman at its marrow who must set aside her ordered life to regain out what actually happened all those years ago, where the truth, inwards the end, may go stranger than fiction.


An intriguingly dark, twisty even out too eccentric characters brand this mass a standout.

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Lots of buzz virtually this book. And how tin strength out yous non similar a even out involving a bookstore?! But this looks to go to a greater extent than than a whodunnit, where the even out of Lydia is inwards the forefront too the "murders" inwards enquiry assist create a worthwhile character. Published past times Simon & Schuster too available now!

Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry... Here's the Kirkus Review, The unlikely friendship betwixt a canny widow too a scholarly vicar sets the phase for this sweeping 19th-century saga of competing belief systems.

Widow Cora Seaborne knows she should mourn the go of her husband; instead, she finally feels free. Eschewing the advice of her friends, Cora retreats from London with her lady’s maid, Martha, too strange, prescient son, Francis. The curious political party decamps to muddied Essex, where Cora dons an ugly men’s coat too goes tramping inwards the mud, looking for fossils. Soon she becomes captivated past times the local rumor of a menacing presence that haunts the Blackwater estuary, a threat that locks children inwards their houses afterward dark too puts farmers on scout every bit the tide creeps in. Cora’s fascination with the fabled Essex Serpent leads her to the Rev. William Ransome, desperate to hold his flock from descending into outright hysteria. An unlikely pair, the ii educate a fast intellectual friendship, curious to many but accepted past times all, including Ransome’s ailing wife, Stella. Perry (After Me Comes the Flood, 2015) pulls out all the stops inwards her richly detailed Victorian yarn, weaving myth too local season with 19th-century debates virtually theology too evolution, medical scientific discipline too social judge for the poor. Each of Perry’s characters receives his or her due, from the smallest Essex urchin to the devastating Stella, who suffers from tuberculosis too obsesses over the color bluish throughout her decline. There are Katherine too Charles Ambrose, a good-natured but shallow social club couple; the ambitious too radical MD Luke Garrett too his wealthier but less-talented friend George Spencer, who longs for Martha; Martha herself, who rattles off Marx with the best of them too longs to win Cora’s affection; non to cite a host of sailors, superstitious tenant farmers, too bewitched schoolgirls. The sumptuous twists too turns of Perry’s prose invite unopen reading, every bit deep too foreign too total of narrative magic every bit the Blackwater itself. Fans of Sarah Waters, A.S. Byatt, too Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things should laid to autumn nether Perry’s spell too into her rattling capable hands.

This mass has gotten glowing reviews, too a "starred" review from Kirkus Review, but a few reviewers say that it's to a greater extent than a grapheme driven victorian yarn that a murder mystery. Annalisa Quinn of NPR in her review of the mass called the writing "so painfully lovely", that I only withdraw hold to read it fifty-fifty if it's non such a "whodunnit" afterward all. She characterizes it every bit  a "historical novel". Published past times Custom House, a segmentation of Harper Collins, too available now.

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And I Just Have to Mention...
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter past times Theodora Goss... Based on around of literature’s horror too scientific discipline fiction classics, this is the even out of a remarkable grouping of women who come upwardly together to solve the mystery of a serial of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their ain origins.

Mary Jekyll, lone too penniless next her parents’ death, is curious virtually the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue inwards special hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s onetime friend too a murderer, may go nearby, too in that place is a vantage for information leading to his capture…a vantage that would solve all of her immediate fiscal woes.

But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral kid left to go raised past times nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes too MD Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, too shortly befriends to a greater extent than women, all of whom withdraw hold been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, too Justine Frankenstein.


When their investigations Pb them to the regain of a surreptitious social club of immoral too power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past times return. Now it is upwardly to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.

I desire to honey this mass because I honey the thought of characters from other books making a even out together. BUT, I withdraw hold read mixed reviews. Some honey it, 1 inwards special non hence much, inwards which the  reviewer thought that the writer did non educate the characters enough. But that's the foreign affair virtually reviews- nosotros similar to read what other people intend of a mass when considering to read it, but it is only the thought of a special person. So for my money, I'm giving it a run a hazard too withdraw hold it on my TBR list. I intend if nix else it volition go a fun romp!

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⭐The 1 mass yous don't desire to miss this week...

The Burning Girl past times Claire Messud... Trying to console her heartbroken daughter, Julia Robinson’s woman parent muses, “Everyone loses a best friend at around point.” Julia is the narrator of Messud’s beautiful novel virtually ii immature girls, inseparable since plant nursery schoolhouse inwards a pocket-sized Massachusetts town, who experience they’re “joined past times an invisible thread,” but who drift apart every bit they come upwardly of age. For years, Julia too Cassie Burnes withdraw hold shared adventures too dreams, but every bit they cross the pivotal threshold into 7th grade, Julia feels betrayed when Cassie is drawn to boys, alcohol, too drugs. To the reader, the separate seems inevitable. Julia is the production of a stable household, but Cassie’s blowsy, unreliable woman parent transfers her affection to a brutally controlling lover who destroys Cassie’s sense of security. Desperately unhappy, Cassie sets out to regain the begetter she has never known too begins a spiral of self-destruction that Julia, similar a shot no longer Cassie’s intimate friend, must withdraw heed virtually from the man child they both love. Messud shines a tender gaze on her protagonists too sustains an elegiac note every bit she conveys the volatile emotions of adolescent deportment too the dawning of woman mortal vulnerability (“being a immature adult woman is virtually learning to go afraid”). Julia voices the novel’s leitmotif: that everyone’s life is essentially a mysterious story, distorted past times myths. Although it reverberates with shrewd insights, inwards around ways this uncomplicated tale is less ambitious but to a greater extent than heartfelt than Messud’s previous work. The Emperor’s Children was a many-charactered, satiric written report of Ivy League–educated, entitled immature people making it inwards New York. The Woman Upstairs was a clever, audacious portrayal of an untrustworthy protagonist. Informed past times the same sophisticated tidings too elegant prose, but gaining novel poignant depths, this novel is haunting too emotionally gripping.

Lot's of buzz virtually this book! I honey these friendship stories. Published past times Norton and arriving Tuesday, Aug. 29th at your favorite mass seller. On my want list!

What am I reading this week? I'm finishing upwardly a memoir by Claire Dederer titled Love too Trouble. If yous are a immature adult woman of "a sure enough age", growing upwardly inwards the 70's or 80's, yous also mightiness relish this! It's virtually Claire's midlife crisis too reflecting upon "that girl" she'd hidden away thirty years before. Some of these reflections are only also truthful too also funny. After I set downward Claire's book, I'll go picking upwardly my library re-create of The Rise too Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson too Nicole Galland, a variety of fourth dimension traveling scifi romp with a corking woman mortal protagonist.

That's virtually it for books this week. Hope yous were able to regain something interesting here!

Happy reading... Suzanne