Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! The girls at The Broke and the Bookish have had me going in circles this week as I tried to work out how I would approach this topic. For starters, I have an insatiable appetite for reading. If you say the word book, I’m interested! For me, it’s not a matter of looking for something to read so much as deciding which of the thousands of books on my TBR continent I’ll pick up next.
~ About the Book ~ At the urgent request of an old school friend, Drew and Madeline Farthering come to Bloodworth Park Lodge in the midst of the Yorkshire moors, a place as moody and mysterious as a Brontë hero. There have been several worrisome incidents out on the moor–property destroyed, fires started, sheep and cattle scattered–and worst of all, the vicar has been found dead on the steps of the church.
Brought to you thanks to the girls at The Broke and The Bookish This week on Top Ten Tuesday it’s a ‘Choose-Your-Own-Top-Ten’—that is, there’s no set topic. I may very well have spent the entire week trying to decide between the many glorious Top Ten lists I could come up with, but after recently reading Another Day, Another Dali from the Serena Jones Mystery series by Sandra Orchard (you can read my review here), I got to thinking about my lifelong love of mysteries and thought, “Why not blog about my love affair with bookish crime solvers?”
Want to hear a funny story? I’ve been planning on mixing up my blog posts a bit this year, now that I’m settling into the book blogging community and discovering all the fun things that go on. One of the things I thought I would do this year is Top Ten Tuesday, masterminded by the gals at The Broke and the Bookish. Good plan, huh? Well, I’m good at plans. But here is a classic example of what happens when plans land in my hands:
If you’ve read my Best of 2016 post, you’ll know I promised a post where I highlighted books according to various memorable features. Well, this has turned out to be Part 1 of that list. Which actually makes it Part 2 of my ‘Best of’ series. Confused? Don’t worry! It’s not really that important. Just read the post anyway. 🙂 It is worth mentioning that this list is compiled from books that I read in 2016, not necessarily just books that were published in 2016. Clicking on the cover will take you that book’s Amazon page, and there is also
“I should have known something was wrong. I mean, I did know. Or thought I knew, but I didn’t figure out what it was. What good is it to be meant to help people when you do nothing but stand by and let them die anyway?” “Come on,” she said, and she helped him out of his tailcoat and the satin waistcoat beneath. “Now sit down.” She guided him a few steps backward until he felt the bed against his legs and sat down. Then she knelt at his feet and began tugging at his shoe. “Here now, I