As I want to read The Janus Stone as my January 2026 book I needed to read her first book first. Glad I did and look forward to reading more.
Categorical Reading Lists
I enjoyed this book. It was quite dark and no spoilers but the ending took my by surprise. I will read more from this author.
Once Around the Categories: December, BlackOut
Marlow Mystery Club #2
I am enjoying this cozy mystery series and can't wait to read the next.
Yearly Reading List
2025
- A Dinner To Die For by Jack Gatland
- A Fatal Grace by Louse Penny
- A Night In Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
- A Ritual For the Dying by Jack Gatland
- A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
- A Witch In Time by Constance Sayers
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
- Black December by Scott Hunter
- Bloody January by Alan Parks
- Bluffing Mr. Churchill by John Lawton
- Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
- Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
- Cast A Cold Eye by Rich Curtin
- Come November by Scott Lord
- Coyote's Regret by Rich Curtin
- Death Comes To Marlow by Robert Thorogood
- Death of a Cave Dweller by Sally Spencer
- Death Of Dreams by Rich Curtin
- Death Saint by Rich Curtin
- Devil's Knot (The True Story of the West Memphis Three) by Mara Leverett
- Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
- Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
- February's Son by Alan Parks
- Final Arrangements by Rich Curtin
- Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
- I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
- If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
- Indepencence Day's Search by A. E. Howe
- IQ by Joe Ide
- Joe Country by Mick Herron
- Killing The Music by Jack Gatland
- Last Patient Of The Night by Gary Gerlacher
- Made From Scratch by Jenna Woginrich
- May God Forgive by Alan Parks
- Memorial Day's Escape by A. E. Howe
- Men Of Bone by David Penny
- Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
- Murder At Swann's Lake by Sally Spencer
- Once Around The Categories (2025)
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Return to Death by A. E. Howe
- Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
- Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles
- Saturday The Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman
- Simon Grave and the Curious Incident of the Cat in the Daytime by Len Boswell
- St. Patrick's Cross by A. E. Howe
- Standing By The Wall by Mick Herron
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman
- Tales From The Cafe (Before The Coffee Gets Cold) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The 4th of July by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
- The April Dead by Alan Parks
- The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
- The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
- The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
- The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher
- The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
- The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Alder-Olsen
- The Near Witch by V. E. Schwab
- The Old Neighborhood by Avery Corman
- The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
- The September Girls by Maureen Lee
- The Shaman's Secret by Rich Curtin
- The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison
- The Traveling Cat Chroncicles by Hiro Arikawa
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
- To Die In June by Alan Parks
- Valentine's Warning by A. E. Howe
- Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante
- Walk The Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
- Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
