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When I got caught up on the Maeve Kerrigan series, someone told me to give the Lacey Flint books a chance while I wait for Jane Casey to write more. It was a good comp for Maeve. I think this was darker than the Maeve books, and actually scared me a little if I read too late. The final twist is a great one. I definitely want to read more to see where it goes.

My reads for May were much lower #s than usual, but I found a bunch of new to me authors. 5⭐ are the tagged book and I Take My Coffee Black. 4⭐ are Take My Hand, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, Vacationland, The Last Child, and No Time for Goodbye. The rest were 3⭐.

1. I‘m from Michigan, so of course I use my hands (Two hands! Two peninsulas! Do it right!) to show where I live, thus I‘m a mitten girl. Peach is a nickname I acquired in my early 30s. My BFF is Bunnie, I‘m Peach. EVERYONE calls her Bun or Bunnie. That really stuck.

2. In the bedroom. It‘s soothing, comfortable, and in the summer, air conditioned.

3. Tagged! I reviewed this morning. Inhaled it.

4. 2 people, 1 🐶, 1 🐱.

@Eggs

This is a dark book, but I was entranced by it. I‘ve got the second on hold at the library already. Lacey Flint is a terrific character, and the plot: holy hell. No, I didn‘t guess the final twist. At ALL. The book was published ten years ago, but I wasn‘t reading many mysteries then. And definitely not like this. But reading tastes evolve, and if you like strong heroines and literary, serpentine plots, this is for you!

A lovely morning!

FINALLY reading this. I‘ve had it checked out since last June. Started this afternoon and I AM SUCKED IN.

Love Lacey Flint! #20Series20Days #Top20Series

I know there are a couple of novellas but are there additional novels @eanderson ?

Day 8 #Top20series #20series20days Better not day much because I can‘t write as well, intriguingly or addictively like Sharon Bolton. This series simply blew my mind 👍🏽‼️❤️🥳

I absolutely LOVE the Lacey Flint series. She is mysterious but very serious about her job. Lacey isn‘t for everyone but I highly suggest her for fans of strong female detectives! I have posted about this series a lot! 😍
#Top20Series #20series20days

#JoysofJune it is! My goal is four books, all published in June or July of any year. This fits in neatly with #readyoursign. I‘ve got multiple readathons going on now and I‘m . . . not reading much. But my FIL leaves on Monday, so I‘ll have more time after that. It‘s not time as much as it is focus and stress level. I *could* read, but I‘m surfing twitter instead. Ah, well. Happy Friday, Littens!
@Andrew65

Couldn't sleep so I spent the past hour and a half with this book ... if it weren't 1:30 am I wouldn't want to stop until I got to the end

Bk10 of my #Scareathlon is finished. So far I‘ve managed 2.5 audiobooks, 1ebook & 7 full length novels, all of which were over 350pg long. And I still have two more weeks. This was the 1st in the Lacey Flint series, it was terrifying, it was graphic, it was really good. And the ending was a shocker. Highly recommend. #TeamSlaughter #ScaryScavengerHunt #ThatScaresYou 4points #PointsTotal-685

Next in my #libraryhaul is another Sharon Bolton thriller. Bk1 in her Lacey Flint series. After interviewing a witness at an apartment complex, DC Lacey Flint finds a woman who‘d just been brutally stabbed moments before. Within 24hrs, a reporter receives a letter that links the murder to the Ripper murders over a century before, a letter that calls out Lacey by name. #Scareathlon #TeamSlaughter 1point #PointsTotal-282

1) This was my first five star for 2019
2) Puffy White Cheddar Cheetos
3) Sunrise
4) New dining table, couch, and oven
5) I can't really remember full grades. I loved my English and History classes though 🙂

#friyayintro @howjessreads

I‘m shopping early ... both of these 99p deals on kindle today ...a no brainer 👍🏻♥️

My first 5 star of the year. DC Lacey Flint finds herself smack in the middle of a Ripper copycat case. This has a grittier feel to it which I enjoyed. A few red herrings and quite the twist at the end, I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this. Fulfills my first title in my #Booked2019 challenge prompt of "Female Detective" for the Winter season.

@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

#Booked2019Winter #FemaleDetective

1) Teleport - think of all the places I could see without the pain of air travel!
2) Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
3) Nope, can't break a promise I didn't make.
4) No Offence
5) 👍

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Wow. 3.5 the ending was a surprise which is very rare for me. It bogs down a bit in the middle but still a very solid first in a series!

This book was a great start to the series. I liked the Jack the Ripper connection and found it very interesting. I liked the characters and the plot. There were a lot of twists and turns that keep the pages flying. I found the ending a little confusing but all in all it was a pretty good book. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series and would recommend this book to those who like mystery/thrillers.

#nowyouseeme #sharonbolton

How do I review this book without leaving spoilers! 🤔 Here goes! This was an enjoyable book but wasn‘t as great as I thought it was going to be after the first part of the book. I totally loved this first part, but as the book progressed it changed direction & turned out not to be the book I expected from this first section & that was the book I wanted to read. So really a bit disappointed it didn‘t turn out to be that great book.

Day 5 of my week long challenge to read 8 books, 2800 Pages and read for 56 hours
Update
5 Books Read : Off Track, 5 Pages away from finishing a book by midnight.
2146 Pages Read (146 ahead of Schedule)
39 Hours 58 min Minutes Read (2 Minutes behind schedule)

I‘m leading a Group Read on Librarything of the first book in Lacey Flint Series by Sharon Bolton over the next 5 days. If anyone on Litsy would like to join in let me know below and we can discuss the book on Litsy as well.
#LaceyFlintGroupRead #SharonBolton #NowYouSeeMe

1. I‘d like to match last year‘s total and read 19 books, and get to the tagged book. Wanted to read Sharon Bolton for some time.
2. Only writing I do is work related, more a reader than a writer.
3. It‘s my birthday!
4. Happy November @Melissa_J @Cathythoughts @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @MinDea @Sarah83 @jpmcwisemorgan
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn
Thanks for the tag @MommyWantsToReadHerBook @gradcat

So that's me addicted to Sharon Bolton then! Have bought half her back catalogue and asked Santa for the rest. This is the first Lacey Flint book and I really like the complexity of the character. Everytime I thought I had the plot worked out it twisted in another direction, making me exclaim out loud on more than one occasion. Can't wait to get started on the next one

May's TBR and Read planner bookshelf pages

I‘m going in! #StartASeries

This book forced a Starbucks run this morning. I didn't truly start this book until Sunday evening - and I proceeded to finish it late Sunday night (way past my bedtime). Un-put-down-able! Interesting protagonist backstory, wonderful murder mystery. I have never read #SharonBolton before, but I just found a new author to binge!

So true! Highly recommend tagged book (and series) if you‘re into the genre! 📚📚

Thank you, @DGRachel for doing this give away! I‘ve been wanting to read this series. 🤗 Here are just a couple of my favorite mystery series. I love love love the Lacy Flint series by Sharon Bolton. The series by Howard Linskey is also very good! Cannot forget the Helen Grace series as well (not in the picture). #AZKGiveaway

If you are not familiar with Sharon Bolton's work, then I definitely urge you to stay reading here books! I can't put down her novels, and I am eagerly waiting for her next one! One of my absolute favorite contemporary authors. This book is the first in a series, and yes, it's fantastic!

I‘m probably partly to blame for the slightly lower rating than expected. But there is no doubt that Now You See Me is the start of what is promising to be a very interesting crime thriller series and I will be looking forward to pick up the next book even though I haven‘t been able to warm up to Lacey yet. Sharon Bolton‘s writing style makes it very enjoyable to read her story and I can‘t wait to pick up more of her books.

3,5/5 stars

Lila is excited to be reading Now You See Me with me! My very first Bolton book and I can already see it won't be my last.

#amreading #currentlyreading #catsoflitsy

I really enjoyed this one, a well paced story with a somewhat unreliable main character, looking forward to reading more of the series. The audio was great on this one

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#asidefromreading

Reading has been tough, work really busy and my eyes want a rest from words so cast on a new knitting project and got this on audio and it's perfect

I loved this book. It was great first part of the series. The author did a fabulous job at throwing the reader for a loop. Once the entire plot was revealed, it had me swearing as the entire thing was brilliant. I highly recommend the book! Lacey Flint is the perfect badass women for these twisted, copycat Ripper murders. Mark Joesbury is the perfect match to her wit. But, will this push Lacey too far? Who is Mark Joesbury?

Hands down my favorite whodunnit #whodunnitwednesday

Just finished the book and I honestly didn't see the ending coming. I really good at guessing but whoa. I think at one point I did figure it out but the author definitely plays games with the reader, making the reader question everything. This is the first of five books in the series. I will definitely be picking up the next.

You know you are a bibliophile, and it's a good book, when you've been away from the book all day and can't stop thinking about it.

"I could see horrified blue eyes, the river gleaming like black ink and coloured lights from north bank reaching across it like ribbons."

I've officially completed my Bachelors in English Literature. Now, I'm getting ready to start this lovely. What a perfect day!

This book!!! Fast paced and gritty, with deeply damaged characters and scenes so dark & vivid they could give you nightmares. Author S.J. Bolton is almost as brutal as Mo Hayder. Add in an intricate plot, a fresh take on an old theory, and pain and anguish with the turn of every page, and this one's a winner. The best news - it's the first in a series! 5 stars!

Looks like I've found a new mystery series to read. My best friend and partner in reading first recommended I read this series. Lacey Flint is an awesome protagonist. And the murders are based on Jack the Ripper which is always interesting.

If you are a fan of the Girl on the Train and how you aren't sure if you can trust the narrator, give Now You See Me a chance. I loved how you try to figure out what is really going on and it kinda hits you with less than 1/4 of the book left! I would give it 4.5 out of 5!

I truly believe this! :)

Thought I had it all figured out....about five separate times! 😂. Definitely going to read more of Sharon Bolton!!

Oh my bleeping crap 😱 that was one solid thriller!! My jaw was on the floor for the last 50 pages - the author had me believing a million different theories and yet none of them were exactly true. Definitely picking up the next book.

I'm less than 10 pages into this and I already feel like I am covered in blood! Thanks Book Riot for the recommendation. I hope I'm not scarred for life by the time I turn the last page.

Currently devouring this!