These are the books I've read on my Nook
or listened to as Audiobooks in 2025:
“Becoming Sherlock: The Magician”
[Book 3 in Series]
Anthony Horowitz & Sarah J. Naughton
This final installment in the trilogy blew me away. I loved the revelations that unfurled one-by-one about Sherlock and his connection to Moriarty, Mycroft, and – my favorite surprise of all – a character named, of all things, Doyle! I highly recommend this wonderfully re-imagined Holmes series, and I definitely recommend enjoying them in the correct order.“Becoming Sherlock: The Irregulars”
[Book 2 in Series]
Anthony Horowitz & Sarah J. Naughton
Excellent follow-up to the first in the series “The Red Circle,” this second installment titled “The Irregulars” provides a great origin story for this motley crew who were regularly featured in Doyle’s original tales of Sherlock Holmes. I loved this one!- "Becoming Sherlock: The Red Circle,"
[Book 1 in Series]
Anthony Horowitz & Sarah J. Naughton
The first book in a new trilogy, set in a dystopian 2065 London where a mysterious, amnesiac man with brilliant deductive skills is discovered by a returning war veteran, John Watson. The story follows this man (Holmes, of course) as he tries to solve the mystery of his own identity and a complex case known as "The Red Circle". The series offers a fresh, futuristic take on the classic Sherlock Holmes characters and setting. I found it to be entertaining – especially the thought-provoking revelations about what has happened to our world's major landmarks and other parts of life in the (not too distant) future. - "The Case of the Gilded Fly,"
Edmund Crispin.
A locked-room mystery written while Crispin was an undergraduate at Oxford and first published in the UK in 1944. The book contains the first appearance of eccentric amateur detective Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, who went on to appear in all nine of Crispin's novels as well as most of the short stories. The book abounds in literary allusions ranging from classical antiquity to the mid-20th century. - "Death of a Bookseller,"
Bernard J. Farmer.
The 100th installment in the British Library's Crime Classics series is a fantastically fun bookish romp of a mystery! - "Close to Death,"
Anthony Horowitz.
Horowitz has never disappointed me, and his catty humor when describing this story's colorful characters has never been more delightful! Get ready to learn even more secrets about Detective Hawthorne in this edition of the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, and prepare as well for one surprise after another in this book's concluding pages. - "The Twist of a Knife,"
Anthony Horowitz.
After his new play receives a scathing review from a critic who is then found murdered with Horowitz's fingerprints on the weapon, Horowitz must rely on his estranged former partner, Detective Hawthorne, to prove his innocence. - "A Line to Kill,"
Anthony Horowitz.
Oh, how we Cozy Mystery lovers relish a locked-room whodunnit. Anthony gives us a good one. Featuring the fictionalized author Anthony Horowitz as the narrator and sidekick to the ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne, this story follows the duo to a literary festival on the island of Alderney, where a murder occurs, trapping the guests and forcing Hawthorne to investigate the killer among them.
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard.
The English Classicist Mary Beard tells history like no other contemporary historian. So I was thrilled when a hardcover birthday gift arrived from my friend Joe. Joe knows better than anyone my love of Greco-Roman history. The year before, he gave me Beard's "Emperor of Rome" and, like it, "SPQR" enthralled me from beginning to end because Beard's history writing is not dry details but a captivating narrative. - "The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge:
a Rachel Savernake Mystery" [Book 3]
Martin Edwards.
I love Martin Edwards - as the host and sometimes narrator of the British Library Crime Classics. As an author himself, particularly the Savernake mysteries, I remain unimpressed. - "Two-Way Murder,"
E.C.R. Lorac.
All the hallmarks of the Golden Age mystery are here in this previously unpublished novel by E.C.R. Lorac, boasting the author's characteristically detailed sense of setting and gripping police work. - "Murder by Matchlight,"
E.C.R. Lorac.
London, 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. This wonderful selection in the Lorac collection provides a great description of what that historic period was like for Londoners. Our ever-brilliant C.I.D. man, MacDonald, must set to work once again to unravel this near-impossible mystery. - "Murder in Vienna,"
E.C.R. Lorac.
Set against the enchanting background of post war Vienna, with its beautiful palaces and gardens, its disenchanted residents and scars of war, E.C.R. Lorac constructs a characteristic detective story featuring Inspector MacDonald. This exceedingly rare mystery, first published in 1956, makes its triumphant return for the first time since its original appearance. - "Death of an Author,"
E.C.R. Lorac.
Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a potentially fictional victim, as E. C. R. Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humour and red herrings, poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a man (since a woman could apparently not have written mysteries the way that she did). - "Smallbone Deceased,"
E.C.R. Lorac.
Written with style, pace and wit, this is a masterpiece by one of the finest writers of traditional British crime novels since the Second World War. - "Marble Hall Murders,"
Anthony Horowitz.
Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series. Once again, the real and the fictional worlds have become dangerously entangled. And if Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pünd’s Last Case, she could well be its next victim. - "The Man Who Didn't Fly,"
Margot Bennett.
Who was the man who didn’t fly? What did he have to gain? And would he commit such an explosive murder to get it? First published in 1955, Margot Bennett’s ingenious mystery remains an innovative and thoroughly entertaining inversion of the classic whodunit. - "The Widow of Bath,"
Margot Bennett.
First published in 1952, The Widow of Bath offers intricate puzzles, international intrigue and a richly evoked portrait of post-war Britain, all delivered with Bennett's signature brand of witty and elegant prose. - "Crook o' Lune"
E.C.R. Lorac.
Lorac spins a tale portraying the natural beauty, cosy quiet and more brutal elements of country living in this classic rural mystery first published in 1953. Holidaying with his friends the Hoggetts in High Gimmerdale while on a trip to find some farmland for his retirement, Robert Macdonald agrees to help in investigating the identity of sheep-stealers, before being dragged into a case requiring his full experience as Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. - "Murder in the Mill-Race"
E.C.R. Lorac.
Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children's home, is a saint - but is she? When her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger. - "Death Under a Little Sky"
Stig Abell.
When Jake Jackson inherits his reclusive uncle’s property in the country, the detective seizes the opportunity for a new life away from the hustle of London. But when a young woman’s bones are discovered, Jake finds himself pulled back into the role of detective, and on the trail of a dangerous killer hiding within this most unlikely of settings.
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Body:
Avoid the 3 PsBsSs
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Processed Foods, Phthalates, Plastics;
Beef, Butter, Breads;
Sedentary activities, Sugars, Salt.
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