Tuesday Tomorrow
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Published by: Minotaur Books
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021
Format: Hardcover, 448 Pages
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The official patter:
"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel.
You’re a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.
He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.
While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.
They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart.
Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.
Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone.
When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.
And the madness of crowds."
My main question on looking at the cover is how the hell does that tie into the storyline?
Unholy Murder by Lynda La Plante
Published by: Zaffre
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021
Format: Paperback, 416 Pages
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The official patter:
"Detective Jane Tennison must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career to date - in the brand new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.
A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic convent - inside is the body of a young nun.
In a city as old as London, the discovery is hardly surprising. But w hen scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison believes she has unearthed a mystery far darker than any she's investigated before. However, not everyone agrees. Tennison's superiors dismiss it as an historic cold case, and the Church seems desperate to conceal the facts from the investigation. It's clear that someone is hiding the truth, and perhaps even the killer. Tennison must pray she can find both - before they are buried forever...
In Unholy Murder, Tennison must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career to date..."
My mom always loved a good Lynda La Plante mystery.
The Back to Front Murder by Tim Major
Published by: Titan Books (UK)
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021
Format: Paperback, 304 Pages
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The official patter:
"Sherlock Holmes assists a popular mystery writer whose plots seem to be coming to life.
May 1898: Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder stolen from a writer's research.
Abigail Moone presents an unusual problem at Baker Street. She is a writer of mystery stories under a male pseudonym, and gets her ideas following real people and imagining how she might kill them and get away with it. It's made her very successful, until her latest "victim" dies, apparently of the poison method she meticulously planned in her notebook. Abigail insists she is not responsible, and that someone is trying to frame her for his death. With the evidence stacking up against her, she begs Holmes to prove her innocence..."
I've found this series very enjoyable with it's vast array of authors and plots, my friend George Mann even wrote one!
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
Published by: Viking Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021
Format: Hardcover, 384 Pages
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The official patter:
"A modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical.
It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left.
According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family's legacy as local "witches."
When her mother's teenage journal tumbles into her life, her family's mystical inheritance becomes once and for all too hard to ignore. It takes Edie on a scavenger hunt to find objects that once belonged to her mother, each one imbued with a different memory. Every time she touches one of these talismans, it whisks her to another entry inside the journal - where she watches her teenage mom mourn, love, and hope just as Edie herself is now doing.
But as Edie discovers, there's a dark secret behind her family's practice that she's unwittingly released. She'll have to embrace - and master - the magic she's always rejected...before it consumes her.
Tinged with a sweet romance with the spellbinding Rhia, who works at the local occult shop, Edie in Between delivers all the cozy magic a budding young witch finding her way in the world needs."
I was sold by the Practical Magic comparison, the fun cover is just icing on the cake!
Bombshell by Sarah MacLean
Published by: Avon
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021
Format: Hardcover, 320 Pages
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The official patter:
"New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell’s Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel - or seduce one - in a single night.
After years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom...and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem.
No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. If you ask him, he’s been a saint about it, considering the way she looks at him...and the way she talks to him...and the way she’d felt in his arms during their one ill-advised kiss.
Except someone has to keep Sesily from tumbling into trouble during her dangerous late-night escapades, and maybe close proximity is exactly what Caleb needs to get this infuriating, outrageous woman out of his system. But now Caleb is the one in trouble, because he’s fast realizing that Sesily isn’t for forgetting...she’s forever. And forever isn’t something he can risk."
I've been so excited for this new series ever since Sarah MacLean talked about it on the inaugural Pink Carnation Read-Along! Though I'm still pissed at Avon for declining my ARC request.
The Last Debutantes by Georgie Blalock
Published by: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021
Format: Paperback, 384 Pages
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The official patter:
"Fans of The Kennedy Debutante and Last Year in Havana will love Georgie Blalock’s new novel of a world on the cusp of change...set on the eve of World War II in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons.
They danced the night away, knowing their world was about to change forever. They were the debutantes of 1939, laughing on the outside, but knowing tragedy - and a war - was just around the corner.
When Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England, she knows she’s part of a world about to end. The daughter of a debt-ridden father and a neglectful mother, Valerie sees firsthand that war is imminent.
Nevertheless, Valerie reinvents herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman, befriending other debutantes from England’s aristocracy as well as the vivacious Eunice Kennedy, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador. Despite her social success, the world’s troubles and Valerie’s fear of loss and loneliness prove impossible to ignore.
How will she navigate her new life when everything in her past has taught her that happiness and stability are as fragile as peace in our time? For the moment she will forget her cares in too much champagne and waltzes. Because very soon, Valerie knows that she must find the inner strength to stand strong and carry on through the challenges of life and love and war."
Being an English debutante is kind of weird with all the pomp and circumstance, hence I'm kind of obsessed.
Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale
My Little Occult Book Club by Steven Rhodes
Ink and Sigil by Kevin Hearne
Chili Cauldron Curse by Lynn Cahoon
Killer Kung Pao by Vivien Chien
Blunt Force by Lynda La Plante
Murder at Kingscote by Alyssa Maxwell
