It’s WWWWednesday!

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you’ll read next?
Why not join in too? Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

What are you currently reading?
Dare I say I’m not currently reading anything? Writing and sending Christmas cards, presents and generally getting prepared for Christmas seems to have taken over the household! We’re off to see friends before Christmas soon and will be having family overnight next week. So, sadly, reading has been put aside just now.

What did you recently finish?

Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson was published on 23 November. I read this for an Orenda Books and Random Things Tour my spot was on 8th December 23.
Book blurb: An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly captivating gothic thriller, based on a true story. FIRST in a new series.
Yule Island is the Winner of the Cultura Ligue de l’Imaginaire Award 2023.

What do you think you will read next?
I have a few books on my radar.

The Night Before Christmas (DI James Walker #4) by Alex Pine. These annual books have become a tradition for me in December.
Book blurb: This Christmas, the hunters become the hunted…
When four trail hunters go missing in the fells of Cumbria on Christmas Eve, the race is on to find them before nightfall – when the temperature plummets.
After hours of searching, the first body is found… Not frozen in the snow, but brutally murdered and bearing a warning: the real hunt has begun.
As a snowstorm descends, three lives hang in the balance. But can the killer be caught before the trail goes cold?

Like to join an online book club?

We meet every 4 weeks on a Monday at 8pm (U.K. time). Like to join? Go to Rebecca Bradley’s blog. Rebecca is a crime fiction author and host of The Virtual Crime Book Club.

The book for our next meeting on Monday, 8th January 2024 is Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. We’re reading ‘cosy’ for this month’s book club choice.
Book blurb: Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing…
Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).
But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.
Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.

BlogTour
What a doozy of a BlogTour this is going to be! I’m thrilled to be a part of this Random Things Tours in January 2024.

The long-awaited Kate Daniels thriller The Longest Goodbye publishes on Thursday, January 18, 2024.
It’s launch, in Corbridge, is on Wednesday, January 17, 2024. Organised by Forum Books – award winning independent bookshop.
Book blurb

LIES COST LIVES
THE BRAND NEW KATE DANIELS THRILLER
Three years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice.
Now the prime suspects have been shot dead within hours of their return to the UK.
Has someone finally taken the law into their own hands?
Seeking out the truth will force Kate Daniels to confront her own past mistakes, and put her career, and her team’s lives, on the line.
The gripping new Kate Daniels thriller about what happens when someone takes the law into their own hands from awardwinning crime writer Mari Hannah.

This meme is a great way to keep my reading organised and share a regular weekly post with you. I hope that you enjoy it too. Do share your thoughts on this post and the books featured above by leaving a comment below. It’s always good to read what you think.





