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Welcome to Booksie's Blog! I write reviews of what I've read, some of which were books sent by publishers or authors. If you would like for me to read and review your book, please contact me. I'd love to have the chance to review for you although I don't usually read to deadlines. My email address is skirkland@triad.rr.com I can't accept everything but I do read and review everything I accept. I average about 10-12 reviews a month. I tend to favor physical books over ebooks for review.

Friday, December 12, 2025

Lost Light by Michael Connelly

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  Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD.  He's not sure what he wants to do but then he realizes that he now has the time and attention ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Fire On The Fens by Joy Ellis

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  The Fens has a serial arsonist.  At first it is small businesses, then a body is found in the rubble of one fire.  It's considered an ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

A Guardian And A Thief by Megha Majumdar

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  Kolkata, India, is in crisis.  The neverending heat means that crops have failed.  People can barely stand to be outdoors and the markets ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Booked On A Feeling by Jayci Lee

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  Lizzy has always been an overachiever but she never feels like she lives up to her Korean mother's expectations.  Lizzy is a lawyer an...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

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  Alison is a medium but one of the few real ones.  She is the daughter of a prostitute whose only use for her was how she could make money ...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

City Of The Dead by Jonathan Kellerman

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  It's been a long day of moving furniture and the two movers are glad when they finally reach their destination.  While maneuvering the...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

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  Readers first visited County Slingo, Ireland and met the McNulty family in The Whereabouts Of Eneas McNulty where they met the three McNul...
Friday, December 5, 2025

The Truth-Teller's Lie by Sophie Hannah

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  DS Charlie Zailer is about to go on vacation with her sister when Naomi Jenkins comes in to make a missing person report.  The missing per...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 edited by Lee Child

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  The twenty stories in this anthology are by a mix of authors.  Some are well known names in the mystery genre, others are less well known....
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Bloodline by Mark Billingham

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  Raymond Garvey was a terrifying serial killer who was active and caught around the time DI Tom Thorne was starting his career.  He didn...
Friday, November 28, 2025

The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne

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  Paul's life isn't what he thought it would be here in his early forties.  His marriage dissolved and his daughter is starting her ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Empire In Black And Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  The Lowlands country has lived in peace for many years.  It welcomes all, beetles, ants, moths, praying mantises and other insects.  But n...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava

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  Sloane Caraway tells lies.  She lies about what she likes.  She lies about where she works.  She lies about her name sometimes and where s...
Monday, November 24, 2025

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

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  When the body of Jimmy Quinn is discovered in the river, shotgunned to death, the entire town set on the banks of the Alabaster River.  Qu...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Blood Child by Octavia Butler

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  This anthology by Octavia Butler contains both stories and essays about how her childhood and how she realized her childhood dreams to bec...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

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  Rachel is about to graduate university in Cork, Ireland.  She is getting a degree in English and totally unsure what that will qualify her...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Kill The Farm Boy by Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne

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  This is the story of the Chosen One and a quest.  But this Chosen One was killed and the job devolved on a talking goat.  He takes off on ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton

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  Lacey Flint never thought she would be on the police force.  She spent time on the streets, lost in a drug-induced haze.  But she cleaned ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

The Bird Skinner by Alice Greenway

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  In retirement, Jim Kennoway has retreated to the island home in Maine that has been the family vacation home.  Jim was an ornithologist wh...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Now You See Me by Karin Fossum

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  This book opens with a chilling scenario.  A six year old girl gets in a man's van when he offers to let her see and pet his bunnies. ...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Alchemised by Sinyenlu

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  When Helena comes to, she is a prisoner with few memories.  She knows she was captured during the waning days of the war and was imprisone...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger

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  Ten years ago ended Madeline Martin's innocent life.  It was the night that she went to a party against the pleas of her best friend, ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

The Heart Of Winter by Jonathan Evison

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  This is the story of a long marriage.  They shouldn't have lasted as they are so different.  Abe is grounded, practical and logical.  ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Tall Bones by Anna Bailey

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  When Abi goes missing after a teenage party in the woods one night, the secrets of Whistling Ridge start to emerge.  Who was the boy Abi w...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

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  This is the story of an Irish family and their relationships.  The narrator is a woman who has just grown up and moved out of the family h...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Bad Actors by Mick Herron

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  In this eighth novel in the Slough House series, a government employee has gone missing.  Not just an everyday employee.  This is the gove...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht

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 They are different, the superwealthy.  The ones who can charter a private plane at a moment's notice when the commercial schedules don...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Through The Window by Diane Fanning

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  Tommy Lee Sells was one of the worst serial killers the United States has seen.  Thirty-five when caught, he spent the years before travel...
Friday, November 7, 2025

In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood

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  In this interesting volume, Margaret Atwood talks about her relationship with science fiction and fantasy.  She started as a child with he...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

The Cambourne Killings by Sally Rigby

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  Detective Lauren Pengelly and her partner Matt Price are called out to a murder in their patch of Cornwall.  A woman's body lies disca...
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I'm the former CIO of a large community college, and an avid reader. I've reviewed here and for Curled Up With A Good Book, Amazon's Vine Reviews program and on Netgalley and Edelweiss. I also work with several publishers. The majority of books reviewed on this page were sent to me free of charge.
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