November Library Book Photo

 Brought home from the mobile library this week were these 11, they are all books I'd reserved on line.

10 crime and just one other.

Three of the upright hardbacks are the new books by favourite authors but I'm not sure about The Venetian Candidate which is by an author I've tried and failed with in the past. The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is the only one that isn't crime and was recommended by someone in blogland, then there are paperbacks of some older crime fiction and the most recent  British Library Crime Classic.

My books from 4 weeks ago were these below. I read most but didn't feel like getting into the 3 non-fiction on the right of the photo or the huge Rosamund Pilcher on the left. 

These are the details of those I read copied from the Books Read 2026 page

• Sally Spencer - Daughters of Darkness. Crime Fiction (Published 2020) Private Investigator Jennie Redhead is called in by a daughter who wants to know why her mother was killed and her head removed by an unknown person, probably someone caught on CCTV at the railway station and then never seen again. There are links to tribal customs of Papua New Guinea and back to wartime London in the blitz. 
• Tim Sullivan - The Patient. Crime Fiction (Published 2022) 3rd in the Sergeant George Cross series set in Bristol. When a young woman with a history of drug abuse is found dead it's quickly ruled a suicide. However the woman's mother is convinced her daughter had stopped taking drugs and would she have relapsed with her young daughter in the next room? She is sure it should be a murder enquiry. George Cross believes the mother but then has to convince his colleagues to reopen the case and find the murderer.
• Kate Mosse - Autumn; The Story of a Season. Non Fiction (Published 2026) In the series of 4 books of the seasons by different authors. This little book is a love story to her home and landscape and surroundings in Sussex.
• Christina Koning - Murder at Mildenhall. Crime Fiction (Published 2026) This is the 10th in the blind detective series. It is 1943 and Fred Rowlands is called by his daughter for help where she is stationed in the WRAF at Mildenhall in Suffolk. Her Polish boyfriend has been accused of murder but has escaped and is in hiding. He is in the country as a member of the Polish Special Operations Executive, stationed in Essex and flying in and out of Germany on secret missions. Both Rowlands and Anne are in danger when there is a traitor on the airbase.
• Heather Peck - The Temenos Remains. Crime Fiction. (Published 2023) The 4th in the DCI Greg Geldard series set in Norfolk. A skeleton with a silver coin in it's mouth is found on a archaeological site, but this is much more recent. Then another body is found and then another. Three seemingly ritual burials. The team need everyone to work to find the killer.
• Edited by Martin Edwards- Eat, Drink and be Murdered. Crime Fiction .Short stories (Published originally 1930- 1969. BLCC Published 2026). A collection of short crime stories, many from long lost authors, with some better known authors.
• Kate Webb - Vital Signs. Crime Fiction (Published 2026) The 4th in a series featuring DI Matt Lockyer. In 2010 The Tobins spend an afternoon with their friends for a party but by morning most of the family are dead or in a coma, including the father who it's assumed tried to commit  suicide after slaughtering his family. In 2021 Chloe Tobin, who was the only survivor and only 6 years old at the time never believed her father was guilty and now she starts to remember more. The cold case unit are brought in to find out if what she remembers is relevant to the mystery.
• Clifford Witting - Murder in Blue . Crime Fiction ( Originally Published 1937). A debut story by this author. John Rutherford is a bookseller and out for a walk in his village one dark evening when he comes across the body of a policeman and his bicycle. When Inspector Charlton is called in to find the killer he discovers the murderer will go to extreme lengths to cover his crime.