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Sharkie
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Don't shoot the messenger. I haven't read the new one. I enjoyed the others and most - but not all - of her other novels.
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I've just started the new one but only read about two chapters.

I don't like her other novels, although I think I've only read two
Sharkie
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I think they're quite a mixed bag, Linds. I bought 'Museum' when it came out and couldn't engage with it at all and didn;t get the fuss around her. Read and quite liked it some years later POST a Jackson Brodie or two.
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Raffo has just read that (non fiction) book about Jack the Ripper's victims. The one that concentrates on the actual women rather than him or how they were killed. Perhaps the contrast with story book crime is too marked!
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I loved Behind The Scenes at the Museum, but her other non-Brodie novels have been either hits or complete misses for me. I haven't read this latest Brodie yet but I've mostly enjoyed the others.
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Raffo says 'slight' not what he thinks. More that tonally the book is unsatisfactory -and he doesn't think well written. He has a theory that as with JK Rowling's last Comoran Strike novel the publishers let their prize authors get away with substandard stuff. Needs stringent editing!
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That’s interesting. I started reading the latest Strike (Lethal White?) after enjoying the TV adaptations of the previous ones, and thought much the same.

I liked “Museum” and “Life After Life.” I read “Started Early, Took My Dog” and thought it was quite average, didn’t inspire me enough to read any others.
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Finished Immortalists :)
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Had a bit of a wobbly moment yesterday and realised I didn't want to read anything challenging. I had a rummage in the spare room and found a Georgette Heyer but first I'm going to reread The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. I have a tiny battered paperbook copy and the print is so small I'm having to use glasses!
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Oh that's a fab book. Good choice. I can send you books if you need them. Genuine offer.

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Welcome to Season Eight

July 2025 (Linds)
The Rest of Our Lives (Benjamin Markovits)
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We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, trans. Bela Shayevich, Clarence Brown or Gregory Zilboorg depending on edition)
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The Last Days of New Paris (China Mieville)
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The Beautiful Ones (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
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One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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Appliance (J O Morgan)
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