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📚 A Bibliophile’s Confession

Today is Book Lovers Day, and I can definitely get behind that one. I think it’s safe to say I qualify. Although I’m a proud bibliophile, I’m not a literary snob—I haven’t read most of the classics, and I don’t plan to. My heart belongs to fictional crime, especially long-running series that let me settle in and really get to know the characters.

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I often re-read a series when I know a new book is coming out, just to keep the story fresh in my mind. There’s something comforting about revisiting familiar characters and watching them evolve over time. Here are a few of my favorite authors and the unforgettable worlds they’ve created:

🔍 My Favorite Crime Series & Authors

J.D. Robb – Her In Death series features Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her enigmatic husband Roarke. Crime-solving with a futuristic twist? Yes, please.
Iris Johansen – She writes about Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor who helps catch the bad guys. Smart, intense, and always gripping.
Catherine Coulter – Her FBI thrillers star agents Savage and Sherlock, with a spin-off series called Brit in the FBI. I love both.
J.A. Jance – She keeps me busy with multiple series that sometimes cross over. There’s J.P. Beaumont, a Seattle homicide detective; Ali Reynolds, a former newswoman; and Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady.
Elizabeth Peters – An oldie but goodie. Her Egypt-based series blends fiction with real history, including pyramids and Howard Carter’s 1920s discoveries. It’s pure adventure.

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📦 Downsizing My Library

I used to collect all the books—shelves full of dog-eared paperbacks and hardcovers with cracked spines. But after downsizing to a small apartment, my beloved library had to be donated to a book sale. Now, everything lives on my Kindle. It’s not quite as satisfying as holding a real book, but it’s definitely easier to carry around. And let’s be honest—having an entire library in my purse is pretty magical.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin

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☕ Let’s Talk Books

So, fellow book lovers—who do you like to read? Do you have a favorite series you revisit like an old friend? Drop your recommendations in the comments—I’m always looking for my next fictional crime spree.

Anyone read any good books lately? I just finished

Knock Out…….Catherine Coulter
Delusion in Death……J.D. Robb
Queen of the Night….J.A. Jance
The Whisperer……Carla Neggers

There seems to be a trend in my choice of novels. Some folks like Romance, some like Thrillers, some like Horror(you’ll never catch me with a Stephen King Novel…way too scary), some like biographies and so on.

I think you can call my choices Mystery with maybe a touch of paranormal tossed in.

Knock Out is one of Catherine Coulters FBI “Thrillers” but this one has more than a little paranormal/psychic thread to the plot. Fiction yes, but it does get you thinking about the so called “Power of the mind”. Its plot moves fast as 2 story lines keep our FBI heroes racing between bad guys in a desperate attempt to save everyone.

Delusion in Death by J. D. Robb is part of a series featuring a female homicide detective (Eve Dallas) for the NY City Police department and her super rich husband (Rourke) set in and around 2058. Each book in the series is a murder mystery as well as moving you through Dallas’s growth as a person. So far there are 34 books in this series.( J. D. Robb is a pen name for Nora Roberts.)

Queen of the Night a novel by J.A. Jance brings back some of her earlier characters. Located in Arizona there is the underlying theme of the Indian Reservations and Spiritual Beliefs. The novel is often sad when man’s inhumanity to man spills over to the youngest and most innocent of our society. But unlike “real life” there is someone there to rise to the challenge…good over comes evil but not without hardship and loss.

The Whisperer by Carla Neggers also brings back characters and plot themes from earlier novels but each story can stand alone if necessary. What I like about Carla Neggers is so many of her stories are set in New England…the Maine Coast, New Hampshire, Southie, Jamaica Plain, Beacon St, Boston…all real places to me. Her stories, including this one always have a heavy does of Ireland and Irish Folklore along with Boston PD, FBI and spies. So I recommend her to anyone who likes a bit of fairies and leprechauns thrown in with their murder investigations.

I don’t have the chance to read as much as I used to and stealing the time for these 4 novels has been a rare treat. Since some of my stolen time was time I would normally spend writing, it seems only fitting that I share these books with you. What have you been reading?