The Cold Light of Mourning

 By Elizabeth J. Duncan. 2009. Winner of the Malice Domestic best first traditional mystery novel competition.

introducing Penny Brannigan of Happy Hands Nail Care shop in Llanelen, Wales.

Death on the Nile

 A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie. 1937.

Grounds for Murder

 Coffee & Cream Cafe Mysteries by Lena Gregory. 2023.

The Pelican Brief

 By John Grisham. 1992. One of John Grisham's best, written a year after the bestselling novel, The Firm. I think it was brilliantly portrayed in the film version with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington in 1993.

Crow Mary

 By Kathleen Grissom. 2023

Death in Vineyard Waters

 By Philip R. Craig. #2 Martha's Vineyard Mysteries. 1991. Originally published as "The Woman Who Walked into the Sea."

The Final Days

 The Classic, Behind-the-Scenes Account of Richard Nixon's Dramatic Last Days in the White House. By Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. 1976

A fascinating read, though I knew the end, it was quite engrossing to read the details, day by day. All that Nixon went through, it was a surprise to me that he went on to live another twenty years after he resigned the office of President of the United States.

The Cat of the Baskervilles

 By Vicki Delany. A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery. 2018.

Ms. Demeanor

 By Elinor Lipman. 2023. Narrated by Piper Goodeve per Libby.

A finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Toni Onley's British Columbia: a Tribute

 By Toni Onley. Text and watercolor painting by Toni Onley. 1999. I read today that Toni Onley died doing what he loved, flying. He was 75 years old when  he crashed his plane into the Fraser River in 2004. He wrote in this book that he would not die in his studio of paint fumes. Most of his paintings were done on glaciers and beaches in remote areas of Canada that he was able to access by way of small aircrafts that he piloted. Excellent book that describes how he found his locations and experienced nature.

None of This is True

 By Lisa Jewell. 2023. A domestic thriller. I thought this was a very disturbing book to read, not certain if I would continue to read, but I finished the book. I don't think I would search out another domestic thriller.

Death in Castle Dark

 By Veronica Bond. A Dinner and a Murder Mystery. Book 1. 2021

Death in Vineyard Sand

 A Martha's Vineyard Mystery by Philip R. Craig (1933-2007)

Published 2006. No. 17 in the series. I was introduced to J.R.(Jeff) Jackson and Zee in the Hallmark movie, A Beautiful Place to Die, about the first book in the series.

Steeped in Death

 By Gretchen Rue. Witch's Brew Mystery. book one.2022. Audio book on Libby. Narrated by Kristin Price.

Gore in the Garden

 A Washington Whodunit by Colleen J. Shogan. Book 5. 2019

On Deadly Tides

A Penny Brannigan Mystery. By Elizabeth J. Duncan. 2020. I found a recommendation on Fantasticfiction.com from Carolyn Hart so I put this on my radar.  Lots of interesting facts were included in the story. Likeable characters made the mystery fun. Book eleven in the series.

The first in the series, 'The Cold Light of Mourning' was the winner of the Malice Domestic best first traditional mystery novel competition. "Lyrical and lovely, 'The Cold Light of Mourning' launches an enchanting series that mystery readers will cherish. A warm welcome to Elizabeth J. Duncan, who writes with Grace and charm. Sheer delight. " -Carolyn Hart, author of 'Ghost at Work'

The Perfect Couple

 By Elin Hilderbrand. 2018

The Wedding Guest

 By Jonathan Kellerman. 2019

The Conviction of Richard Nixon

 The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews by James Reston, Jr. 2007

Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life

 By Nava Atlas. 2011. Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2023

Finding Dorothy

 By Elizabeth Letts. 2019

Personal History

 By Katherine Graham. 1997. I read parts of this for a book discussion years ago. I wanted to read this again after watching the film The Post with Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katherine Graham about publishing the Pentagon Papers. I was also interested in reading about Watergate in her own words. I was impressed by her life story, a fascinating woman.

Frost/Nixon

 2008 movie directed by Ron Howard.

Heartburn

 A novel by Nora Ephron. 1983.

K Street Killing

 A Washington Whodunit by Colleen J. Shogan. 2018.

All the President's Men

 The greatest reporting story of all time. By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. With an afterword on the legacies of Watergate and Richard Nixon. 40th anniversary edition. 1974. 2012. The Afterword was originally published in The Washington Post on June 8, 2012. By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Simon and Schuster trade paperback published 2014.

A rereading by me, the first probably read in 1975, after Nixon's resignation. 

Dead Days of Summer

 A Death on Demand Mystery by Carolyn Hart. 2006

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

 By Hazel Gaynor. 2018.

Naked in Da Nang

 A Forward Air Controller in Vietnam. By Michael Jackson and Tara Dixon-Engel. 2004

Murder a la Mode

 A Coffee & Cream Cafe Mystery. Book one. By Lena Gregory. 2023

With a Spirit of Vengeance

 By Lena Gregory. A Bay Island Psychic Mystery. 2022.

Butchers Hill

 By Laura Lippman. 1998.

Ghost Orchid, The

 By Jonathan Kellerman. An Alex Delaware Novel. 2024 . My first by this author. I especially liked the characters, Alex Delaware, a psychologist and Milo Sturgis, a homicide detective. Basically a police procedural which I like. Good mystery with good detection.

Funny Story

 Emily Henry. 2024

The Secret Man

 The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. By Bob Woodward. 2005. With a Reporter's Assessment by Carl Bernstein.

Brave Men

 By Ernie Pyle. Introduction by David Chrisinger. 1944. Penguin Books 2023.

Death Comes Silently

 A Death on Demand mystery by Carolyn Hart. 2012.

Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell

 By M.C. Beaton. book 11, 2001. Audio book by Penelope Keith. 2013. accessed by Libby.

A Spirit Seeks Asylum

 By Lena Gregory. 2021. A Bay Island Psychic Mystery, book 6.

Earth's the Right Place for Love

 By Elizabeth Berg. 2023. A prequel to the series of books called Mason which stated with The Story of Arthur Truluv. This story tells about the early manhood of Arthur Moses in the small town of Mason, Missouri. "In the end, it is nature that helps him to understand how to go beyond loss and create a life of forgiveness and empathy." From the book jacket of the large print edition of the Random House book.

The Confession Club

 By Elizabeth Berg. Number 3 in the Mason trilogy. 2019

The Story of Arthur Truluv, no. 1

Night of Miracles, no. 2

This book is so gorgeoous. Makes me want to write a thank you card to Elizabeth Berg. Oh, I've read her before but not for awhile. And I think , why not?. I just love her books. I just felt like I've been sitting with a good friend.

Battered and Buried

 All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery series, book 7 by Lena Gregory. 2024

Peril

 By Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. 2021.

"Could Trump work his will again? Were there any limits to what he and his supporters might do to put him back in power?

Peril remains. "

Last line in the book.

Death on Demand

 By Carolyn G. Hart. Narrated by Kate Reading. Books on Tape audio. 2012. Book published 1987. #1 in the Death on Demand series. An introduction to Annie Laurence and Max Darling and the Death on Demand bookstore found on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina. Interesting characters, all under suspicion for the murder of a colleague on a Sunday night meeting of mystery writers at Annie's bookstore. Annie and Max start investigating to clear Annie's name. A cozy mystery with plenty of atmosphere.

Grave Consequences

 A Bay Island Psychic Mystery book 5 by Lena Gregory. 2020

Charm City

A Tess Monaghan novel by Laura Lippman. 1997

Spirited Away

 A Bay Island Psychic Mystery, book 4 by Lena Gregory. 2019

West With Giraffes

 By Lynda Rutledge. 2021

What started as a book that I didn't think I'd like turned into one of my favorites of the year. An ode to animals, this story tells the tale of an orphan farm boy from the Texas panhandle. He makes his way from the hurricane of 1938 in New York to the San Diego Zoo with two giraffes. As usual, our pick for book discussion group is historical fiction. As usual, it surprised me by how good it was.

to read nonfiction  or fiction accounts try these:

My Life in a Man-Made Jungle. By Belle Benchley. 1940

The San Diego Zoo: the First Century 1916-2016

The Worst Hard Times by Timothy Egan. 2006

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. 1939

The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor Hugo Green. 1936

The Women

 By Kristin Hannah. 2024

Read this book quite fast. So much I didn't know. The chaos of jungle warfare must have been overwhelming. I know most Vietnam vets don't want to talk about their service to people who weren't there. So sad that the VA wouldn't help the Army Nurse Corps once they were home. Tragic. I recommend this book to everyone. Makes me want to read the true accounts of the nurse's experiences.

To Read more:

Healing Wounds by Captain Diane Carlson Evans with Bob Welch. 2020

American Daughter Goes to War by Winnie Smith. 1992

Home Before Morning by Lynda VanDevanter. 2001

Women in Vietnam: the Oral History by Ron Steinman

A Piece of My Heart by Keith Walker

After the Hero's Welcome by Dorothy H. McDaniel. 2014

The League of Wives by Heath Yardage Lee. 2019

In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale. 1990

The Turning Point: a History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Andres Hunt. 1999

Night of Miracles

 By Elizabeth Berg. 2018

The Spy Coast

 By Tess Gerritsen. 2023

Real Murders

 Aurora Teagarden mystery, book one by Charlaine Harris. 1990

Clairvoyant and Present Danger

 A Bay Island Psychic Mystery. Book 3 by Lena Gregory. 2018

Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam

 By M C Beaton. 2000 

Occult and Battery

 A Bay Island Psychic Mystery book 2 by Lena Gregory. 2017

Baltimore Blues

 By Laura Lippman. 1997.

Death at First Sight

 A Bay Island Psychic Mystery, book one by Lena Gregory. 2016

The Book of Lost Names

 By Kristin Harmel. 2020 A story of a French Jew who forged  documents for Jews escaping the Nazis during World War II.

To Read more:

Adolfo Kominsky: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky

a Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II by Peter Grose.

the Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Andres Tyrell

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead

Jews in France During World War II by Renee Poznanski

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Hulbert

the Journal of Helene Berr

The Sittaford Mystery

By Agatha Christie. 1931. This title was previously published as The Murder at Hazelmoor per The Center Point Large Print edition in 2013.

Devil's Breath

 By G.M. Malliet. 2017

The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse

 By Alexander McCall Smith. 2018

From the last line of the book, " You can go on loving people a long time after they have left you; you can love them every bit as much as you loved them when they were still here. Love lasts. Love grows stronger. Love lasts a lifetime, and beyond. "

A heartwarming book of love and friendship. A treasure to read.

A Bean to Die For

 A Coffee Lover's Mystery, book four by Tara Lush. 2024

Banyan Moon

 By Thao Thai. 2023

Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden

 By M. C. Beaton. 1999.

The Last Devil to Die

 A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman. 2023

Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham

 By M. C. Beaton. Narrated by Penelope Keith. 1999.

Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

 By M. C. Beaton. Narrated by Penelope Keith. 1998

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist

 By M. C. Beaton. 1997. Watched Ashley Jensen in the Acorn series about Agatha Raisin and was curious what went on in Cyprus that was alluded to in the tv series. Since they wanted all the series shot in the Cotswolds they skipped over the terrible tourist adventure. I liked the adventures that Sir Charles and Agatha got up to. A good listen with Penelope Keith as the narrator.

Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage

 By M. C. Beaton. 1996. Loved the audio version by Penelope Keith. Also watch Ashley Jensen in the Acorn series.

Yellow Wife

 By Sadeqa Johnson. 2021. A hard read.

Bright Young Women

 By Jessica Knoll. 2023. A fictionalized retelling of the Florida murders by Ted Bundy in 1978 from the viewpoint of the President of the sorority house. I read it in three days. Quite compelling. I lived on campus from 1970 to 1975 in Ohio, so I could relate to the time. The book highlights two different viewpoints, one from the sorority and one from Washington state, this time the viewpoint of a murder victim. I am glad I read it but it is very disturbing. 

Her Royal Spyness

 By Rhys Bowen. 2007

It's a Dog's Life, Snoopy

 By Charles M. Schulz. 2001

Happiness Falls

 A novel by Angie Kim. 2023 Part thriller, part mystery the novel takes place in about 3 days time beginning with the disappearance of the father. The only witness is a fourteen year old son who cannot speak. He suffers from Angelman syndrome, a genetic condition. A Good Morning America book  club pick.

Death at High Tide: an Island Sisters Mystery

 By Hannah Dennison. 2020

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: a Memoir

 By Matthew Perry. 2022

Born 1969 Died 2023

Go as a River

 By Shelley Read. 2023

Mistletoe Cake Murder

 Book 5 All-Day Breakfast Cafe by Lena Gregory. 2021

Lessons in Chemistry

 By Bonnie Garmus. 2022

Dirty Thirty

 A Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich. 2023

Christmas by the Book

 By Anne Marie Ryan. 2020. Read for book discussion at Vandalia Branch of the Dayton Metro Library. Heart-warming struggle of an independent book store operating in the Cotswolds of England. 

A Treacherous Tale

 The Cambridge Bookshop series, book 2. By Elizabeth Penney. 2022.

Slay it with Flowers: a Flower Shop Mystery

 By Kate Collins. 2005.

Chapter and Curse

The Cambridge Bookshop series, book one by Elizabeth Penney. 2021. The start of an interesting series with Molly Kimball and her mother, Nina moving to Cambridge, England to help run an old bookstore that had been in the family for over four hundred years. A cozy mystery series that will engage all book lovers and Anglophiles.

The Fatal Folio

 The Cambridge Bookshop series, book 3 by Elizabeth Penney. 2023

Her Last Flight

 By Beatriz Williams. 2020.

The Matchmaker's Gift

 A novel by Lynda Cohen Loigman. 2022

Pink Lemonade Cake Murder

 A Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke. 2023

Symphony of Secrets

 By Brendan Slocum. 2023

Looking for Rachel Wallace

 A Spencer novel by Robert B. Parker. 1980.

People We Meet on Vacation

 By Emily Henry. 2022. A film is in the works. Can't wait.

Autopsy of a Boring Wife

 By Marie-Renee Lavoie. Translated by Arielle Aaronson. 2019

Whole Latte Murder

 An All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery by Lena Gregory. 2021

Pineapple Street: a novel

 By Jenny Jackson. 2023

Book Lovers

 By Emily Henry. 2022. Love, love, love this book. Romance novels for the book lover in you. Almost a Hallmark movie.

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

 A novel by Marianne Cronin. 2021

A Waffle Lot of Murder

 An All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery by Lena Gregory. Book 4. 2020

A Cold Brew Killing

 An All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery by Lena Gregory. 2018

Murder Made to Order

 Book 2 of an All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery by Lena Gregory. 2018

Postscript Murders

 By Elly Griffiths. 2020 Book 2 of the Harbinder Kaur mysteries.

I give it 5 stars out of 5.