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Influenced by the BritBox show,I started reading inspector Allen Bank series.This # two in the series captivated me from the start.A former professor,a “dedicated man,” inherited money & moves to the Yorkshire Dales to pursue his archaeological work.Everyone seems to love him,& yet he‘s found bludgeoned to death.What secrets are people holding, past in present?I was mesmerized & carried along as Banks pursued one lot of inquiry after another.⬇️

Watching UConn Women play Arkansas State & reading this Chief Inspector Banks #2 mystery. #serieslove2025
#NCAA #Division1

I really wasn't deliberately avoiding a #BookSpinBingo, but at this point, it's too funny -- I'm trying to keep it up until any book I read would be an inevitable bingo.

Drake Hall is the second book in a series; I enjoyed the first book, but wondered how it was going to handle Edith's Jewish heritage (if at all), whether it was just using it for exoticisation purposes, etc, given that she's very Christian. This book somewhat answered that worry.

#12BooksOf2024 My book for #May had to be the last from the late great crime writer Peter Robinson, RIP. I‘ve been reading his DCI Banks series for over 20yrs and the fact there will never be another one saddens me immensely. I highly recommend the whole series but if you don‘t want to go that far back, Aftermath is a great starting point in the timeline.

Thanks for the tag @Eggs #wonderouswednesday

1. I read as often as I can… sometime I have a long stretch of time and other times not so much… it all depends on how much time I have on how many pages I can do in a sitting
2. People we meet on vacation by Emily Henry
3. Night by Elie Wisel

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Funny, good read🦩

Honest take: I think this was a seasonal pushed out read because a major loose end of the first book remains a loose end. It wasn‘t even addressed. But overall, a cozy mystery with a missing prize ram, a pensioner convinced someone is out to murder her (and they do!), and the hunt for the killer begins as the victims pile up. Chapman doesn‘t seem to stop with one death. Which has me wondering how large of a population is this village?!

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” Mason Cooley

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4⭐️ A cozy-ish (??) mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales with Detective O‘Brien returning home pending an inquiry at his police force. His reception is mixed. And murders are popping up in the Dales pointing to a common theme with an old friend‘s speed dating sessions for the town. Local farmers, a bakery owner, pensioners, pub keeps, curmudgeons, and a newly sober father who may have lost the farm all have roles to play in this lovely who dunnit.