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Book 5 (of 52) – The Guest List

The Guest List – Lucy Foley

In The Guest List, a group of people gather on an island off the coast of Ireland for the wedding of a successful blog owner and an upcoming television star.  However, secrets and ghosts from the past threaten to overtake them all.

I first became aware of Lucy Foley’s latest when it won as 2020’s Best Mystery & Thriller in the Goodreads Choice Awards.  When it went on sale for the Kindle a few weeks later, I picked it up and dug right in.  If I have any complaints, it would be about the coincidences of many of the main characters having unknown ties to each other, which leads to the “mystery” of who the killer is.  And I say “mystery” because there is probably about 10 pages between finding out who the victim is and who the killer is.  Overall, I enjoyed the effort and I’ll probably keep a look our for more work from Foley in the future.

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Book 16 (of 52) – The President’s Shadow

The President's Shadow - Brad Meltzer

The President’s Shadow – Brad Meltzer

After a 2 year hiatus, Brad Meltzer returns with the latest installment of his Culper Ring series.  In this installment, archivist Beecher White tries to find out the truth about his father’s death while working to keep the president safe from an unknown assailant.

Meltzer tweaks his formula of the little man going up against the Washington DC power structure, this time having Beecher more or less working with the government.  Similar to his last book, the one knock I have against this book is that it assumes that you have read the previous entries in the series, with little in the way of proper introduction for returning characters.  A perusal of the early reviews on Goodreads.com show that this was an issue for new readers.

I assume the next book in the series will be coming out sometime in 2017.  I’ll be waiting.