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McMaster's Guide is SOOO good!! And Neil Patrick Harris narrates the audiobook which is also delightful
your tangent about your relationship with catholicism was so funny and relatable to me 😂 “it’s a question that hangs over my head”
Lol about ‘the one with Kenneth Branagh’ because I’m pretty sure he’s adapted almost all of Shakespeare’s plays into films. Really ties into all Shakespeare blurring into one for you. I loved his Much Ado About Nothing.
Fun video! I’m interested to see what you think of the new Ruth Ware.
I’m usually okay with dual timelines but The Villa was tough. The past timeline was just so much more fun and really saved the book. I would dread whenever it flipped back to present day. It’s hard when you’re competing with moody rockstars.
Day 500 of begging Meg to read Veronica Speedwell
Omg I will pioneer this crusade! She HAS to read it
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is one of my top ten of the year!! Can’t wait for you to read it and love it!
Murder in the Family was fun and I think you'd like it bc it's commentary on true crime documentaries AND is mixed media!
I listened to the audiobook for Vera Wong and absolutely loved it! The narrator really adds to the experience
I read this book in 2 days and loved every minute! It's so funny, and the found family is lovely!!! ❤🎉
I finished in one sitting and the funny thing I was sure this is not going to be my thing. Maybe because I didnt like 'Dial A for aunties'.
@@Priyanshi-td6sm Yes, me too! I thought Dial A for Aunties was meh and I don't really enjoy many cozy mysteries but Vera Wong was too sweet to not love
Just listened to the audiobook for Vera Wong on a road trip this week and loved it, highly recommend listening!
I read The Three Dahlias because of you and didn’t know (or forgot) that it was a series, so I SCREAMED at the last page. Loved it.
I read this last weekend and loved it, it’s almost a fair play mystery than you have a chance of solving to which is rare in new books
I'm SO excited for A Fire At The Exhibition!
i read murder your employer and honestly, it was SO much fun. i felt like it really played with the mystery/thriller genre and was really different from anything else i’ve read so i definitely enjoyed it. i highly recommend the audiobook narrated by neil patrick harris! i read the golden spoon and liked it! i think if you go in ready to have a good time then you'll enjoy it
i’m a huge shakespeare girlie and i got an arc of the death i gave him that i’m hoping to read next week. i’m so excited for it, it has many of my buzzwords!. i'm super excited to read a very lively murder, i loved the three dahlias!
I had an arc for The Villa and I quite liked it! The past timeline was loads better, but the integration between the two was good, and the pacing was immaculate.
I loved The Golden Spoon. Some people who didn’t like it expected it to be a thriller, which it is not. Your expectations are much closer to to the fun time that awaits.
I am so excited for the new Richard Osman. I wish the Anthony Horowitz would write another one in the Magpie Murders series.
I had the great British bake off on when reading the golden spoon. It was a good read.
Pleaseee do a video of you reading/trying to solve Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter. It’s mixed media and the tag line is ‘One body. Six experts. Can you solve the case before they do’. 😁
This sounds so interesting, just added to my TBR! 👀 Did you read it physically or via audiobook?
I, too, was super excited for the golden spoon. Alas, it was soooo boring. I don’t know how that was achieved with such a delicious premise.
Vera Wong!! I LOVED ❤️ that book!
The dachshunds on the pages... that is SO amazing!
Always love it when i see a new video from you😊
The Janice Hallet books seem to be about a year behind in the US but I think we're getting the Christmas appeal at the same time
I loved the Villa 🥹
i did enjoy the villa, i somwtimes struggle with unlikable characters but this one worked for me!!!
I absolutely love your book recommendations as well as learning what books you’re looking forward to reading. Thank you as always for such fun videos ✨
I own many of these and others are now going on my TBR -- murder mystery -- the classics -- and some that have relation to them are among my favourites to read too. Which is why I love your channel. I am just reading Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter -- that is a 2023 one that I think you would enjoy -- it has great mixed media elements like the Janice Hallett books. Have you read Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson from 2022? I gave that one 5 stars -- if you love a murder mystery and lots of references to all the classic tropes -- it is a great one -- highly recommend it.
All I can say is thank you for making my tbr list even better and longer love it 🥰 please stay safe and healthy and prayers and blessings for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
The Guide to Homicide has a beautiful US cover.
I liked The Golden Spoon, but it's more of a character driven mystery. I wouldn't call it a cozy mystery, but it has the vibes. It's more of a character driven story with a mystery element to it if that makes sense.
Great recs!
“What’s the one where there’s a film with Kenneth Branagh?”
All of them. Practically all of the Shakespeare plays have that. 😂 But it was probably, most likely, either Othello (which has one of the only Black characters in Shakespeare), Hamlet (takes place mostly in a big mansion/castle), or maybe Henry V (lots of war). Those are more taught in schools.
So true, we do not get enough Agatha Christie style mysteries anymore, unfortunately. The McMasters Guide to Homicide is worth giving a try for the title alone though. The Golden Spoon is on my TBR. On a side note I highly recommend the show Crime Scene Kitchen-CSI and a bake off show had a beautiful baby. 😉 A Death in the Parish sounds right up my alley. (Anything like a Marple or Midsommer Murder and I'm in) I got it. I loved One by One. It was definitely my favorite from Ware; otherwise,she's really a mixed bag for me. So excited for The Last Devil to Die. I've already got plans for the day it comes out.
The end of September cannot come soon enough, I'm so excited for the next Thursday Murder Club. I read it on your recommendation and it's one of my favorite series ever. I just love the characters so much 💗 and you can't beat a good mystery!
You need to make a 2 part vlog - finally finishing series so I can start new ones, followed by finally starting my most anticipated series
We need an unhaul 🎉🎉🎉😂😂 please???❤❤❤
For this next wrapped up you should have Tom and your family choose the books and wrap them so you have no idea what is in there
i would love a video of you organizing your tbr!
I don’t know if you’ve read Dial A For Aunties by Jessie Sutanto, but it was marketed as a murder mystery and read more like a contemporary fiction with madcap humor. I actually loved it, but it was a more Weekend at Bernie’s than murder mystery. I haven’t read her newest book, but I think it’s important to go into it with the understanding that marketing doesn’t always do her books correctly to avoid disappointment.
Also, I read the McMaster’s Guide to Homocide and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was better than I even expected. 😊
I read the McMasters Guide a couple weeks ago and loved it! 😍
I too love murder mystery more than anything else but everyone around me kept saying 'Thrillers' are cooler AND, then I found you. Now, I dont care and kept reading Murder mysteries.
I just got all vera wongs books 📚
This Book Kills was really good! I was a bit surprised at how it turned out, having guessed some but not all of the motives and perpetrator(s). I'd consider it a quick, slightly thrillerly cozyish mystery.
I did read The Golden Spoon in one day - its a cozy murder mystery - not too deep, but enjoyable!
I read The Three Dahlias after you recommended it (I heard no one else talk about it) - and I can't wait for the sequel!!
Thanks for the new recommendations! I love mysteries and thrillers, and you always give great recommendations!
What’s the one, the film with Kenneth Branagh. . .before you even finished your question my response, “Much Ado About Nothing”! Only to realize he starred in several.
I’ve purchased three new books in the last two days because of your videos. My TBR thanks you but my wallet does not. 😂 Also, you should definitely start Veronica Speedwell this year!
I got to Ruth Ware a few months ago, as a online escape room was organised to publicise her new book, it was so cool, and of course I fan girled at her 😂
i got an arc of this book kills at yalc in 2022 and it ended up on my favourites of last year! i hope you love it too
You should try the Amory Ames series by Ashley Weaver, there are 7 books and I adore the main character so much.
Also the Saffron Everleigh series by Kate Khavari, which starts with a botanists guide to poison and parties is incredible, the main character is a female botanist in University College in London in the 1920s so she’s logical and observant and her love interest is everything
I second Amory Ames!!
Did you take down your video about "You are not supposed to die tonight?" Because the link on Goodreads isn't working anymore
I never understood why Meg hated dual timelines... until I read "Sign Here." Awful. I still like dual timelines as long as it's well-done but if Meg was reading books with "Sign Here" levels of dual timelines... girl, I understand, now
i gave golden spoon and zero days 2 stars. 😅
I miss the days of One By One and The Death of Mrs. Westaway. I was so bored with Zero Days and thought The It Girl was dreadful.
I enjoyed #murdertrending, but haven't read the sequel. I'm staying away from YA at the moment. I think I'm getting old and judging the characters more than enjoying the stories.
Interesting! I just Found by chance on amazon kindle this book, nice surprise; Murder on Deck 9 by Lorenzo Pagani:
This is a classic murder mystery in the old school "Agatha Christie" sense. The author does a great job of pulling you in, keeping the pages turning even as your mind is simultaneously processing the new information and trying to figure out "whodunnit?" The Swiss detective remembered me a lot Poirot!🥸🚢