A- #AudioBookReview: Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King My Review: “There’s nothing more disarming than a Jack Russell terrier,” according to Mary Russell’s long-absent rogue of an uncle, Jake Russell. Jake was so much the epitome of the black sheep of the family that he managed to fade completely into the shadows for fourteen long, and often dark, years. But now he’s arrived on his niece’s doorstep in Sussex, hoping that he can work his ‘disarming’ charm on her, just as he used to.

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Grade A #BookReview: Dead in the Frame by Stephen Spotswood My Review: This fifth entry in the Pentecost and Parker series begins with celebrated, hated, envied, feared, private investigator Lillian Pentecost on her way to the Women’s House of Detention at 6th Avenue near West 9th Street in New York City, under arrest for a murder that she surely did not commit. Not that either the NYPD or the criminal justice system can see their way to that conclusion - at least not yet.

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#BookReview: Rebellious Grace by Jeri Westerson My Review: Will Somers, the King’s Fool of this series, finds himself hoist on his own petard in this particular case. After his success at investigating murders on his own in the two previous books in this series, Courting Dragons and The Twilight Queen, this time around his king has ordered him to look into the death of one of Will’s fellow royal servants.

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