The Iggy Chronicles, Volume One by Spencer Quinn - a short e-book in the Chet and Bernie mysteries. Chet's best friend Iggy, who I always pictured as a pug but I guess is a poodle, disappears at the same time one of his owners returns to the hospital.
3 stars
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Claws of the Cat: A Shinobi Mystery by Susan Spann - this is set in Japan in 1564. A samurai and the priest he protects help a hostess in a tea house who has been accused of murder. Not quite enough clarity as to why the samurai and priest are together.
3 stars
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman - I was really looking forward to this book and was quite disappointed. The author told so much more than I wanted to know about.every.single.thing. Everything from who built Grand Central Station and how they made their fortune to the state of Jules Verne's marriage. I only wanted to know about the trips. Almost gave it one star but the minutiae settled down some in the second half of the book.
2 stars
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Bad Blood by Arne Dahl - first published in 1998, just translated this year. The second in the series called the A-Unit. A serial killer has made his way to Sweden and the team tries to find him. A police procedural type of mystery, I found it very interesting all the avenues they take to get just one clue.Although the subject matter was dark I didn't find this book to be a much of a downer as the previous in the series. Totally unexpected ending. There are 11 books so far in this series - I wish they would be translated faster. A couple of gratuitous sex paragraphs.
4.5 stars
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