A Small Indiscretion by Denise Rudberg - billed as a mystery but that really plays a very small part. 486 pages full of the smallest detail about everything and some graphic sex. The actual mystery part is suddenly solved near the end and then we get even more details about the main characters.This is the beginning of a series, but the only book by the author translated from Swedish.
2 stars
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The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah - Kate Daniels gets her chance to be Senior Investigating Officer on a home invasion murder. But she knows something about the murder victim she doesn't reveal and that comes back to haunt her. Too much moaning by her to make this book enjoyable for me. I might not have been in the right mood. First in a series I won't be continuing.
2 stars
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Light in a Dark House by Jan Costin Wagner - another Nordic noir, this time set in Finland. An unidentified woman in a coma is murdered by someone who wept over her body. Kimmo Joentaa, already morose, has trouble with the case since the woman died in the hospital where his wife passed away. Also, his sometime girlfriend(?) has disappeared. The plot moves slowly but I like this author's writing. This is 4th in a series.
3 stars
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The Winter of the Lions by Jan Costin Wagner - how are the murders of a forensic pathologist and a puppet maker connected? There is absolutely nothing to go on until Kimmo Joentaa gets one of his strange ideas. The third in the series and another dark Nordic tale.
3.5 stars
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The Old Blue Line by J.A. Jance - this is billed as a Sheriff Joanna Brady mystery but she gets just a brief mention the end. This is the story of how Butch Dixon was a suspect in a murder case before the two of them married. And how a group of retired law enforcement men come to his rescue.
3 stars
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Code Blues by Melissa Yi - the beginning of a series about Dr. Hope Sze. She's just beginning her residency in a Montreal hospital when one of the teaching doctors is found dead. And she's attracted to bad boy Alex. I wasn't finding this especially well written and then it suddenly turned into Fifty Shades of Grey. I had to scroll past many pages, seeing things I didn't want to see. I regretted that much more than Hope. By then I was hooked on the mystery part and that was resolved soon. Won't be reading anymore of this series. Part of a bundle I bought for my Kindle.
1 stars
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