DCI Roberta Steel - Logan MacRae series by Stuart MacBride

DI Tom Thorne - Tom Thorne series by Mark Billingham

DI Johnny Clocks - Ray Paterson series by Steve Parker

DI Kim Stone - Kim Stone series by Angela Marsons

Are you seeing a pattern here? I could go on ad infinitum.

I never looked at it that way. Interesting point.

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The Malory Towers and St Clare’s books by Enid Blyton were always popular. My absolute favourite book though was and still is The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. At primary school a lot was always made of the fact that CS Lewis came from Belfast and there were always copies of the various Narnia books available to borrow.

Bless The Child by Cathy Cash Spellman, it absolutely terrified me. I was sleeping with the light on for weeks. The film had nothing in common with the book apart from the title. I passed it on to a relative and he binned it halfway through because he didn’t even want it in the house. The weird thing is that the author used to write family saga type romances.

My goodreads challenge this year is 150 books including 120 from Netgalley. I am on target at the minute.

For anyone who doesn’t know what Netgalley is, it is a website where you can request free pre-release books in exchange for reviewing them on sites such as Amazon or on a blog/vlog. I have been a member since 2019 and have reviewed almost 600 books.

I almost always read a book in one sitting and try to read a new series back to back.

I’m a book a day reader and am often asked when people are setting up a new book club if I’d like to be a member. I always decline because as my friend says I don’t read the type of books read by book clubs. The only talking I want to do about a book I’ve just finished is when did you figure out who the killer was? Most book clubs seem to read the books they think they should be read rather than those they want to.