A few Good Books to read

 

This is my current reading, courtesy of my friend Gay, and I am enjoying it.  More to come by him Gay tells me!  I have a big pile of books to get through but gosh, never enough hours in the day!

My blogging friend Sharon is responsible for this purchase! (She recommended this series).  Period detective story set in 1929.

Recently read: the Ann Cleeves is one I treated myself to recently and can recommend. "The darkest nights can hide the deadliest secrets . . . Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly.  But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way, eventually stumbling on another car abandoned on the road.  With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat."  Murder most foul of course!

The other two are from my friend Gay and were both really good reading (couldn't put Castles in the Air down.  It deals with doing up an historic castle - Gwydir Castle in North Wales, and all the couple's trials and tribulations, including the resident ghost!)  Forging on is the story of an apprentice Farrier in Yorkshire, and made me LOL in places.  A nice relaxing read.

Some more reading fodder from my friend Gay, who has the same taste in books as me.  The Anna-Marie Morgan books are detective novels set in Wales.  The Edward Marston one of a Medieval series.

Finally, freebies - I just couldn't resist, but will read and pass on, apart from the Hovel in the Hills - I shall keep that copy (with photos) to replace my original elderly one.  Someone in town is clearing his late mother's bungalow and had a sign up outside his garage door asking people to take what was on offer to safe it from Landfill.  We also had an old Lloyd Loom chair from there, to go in the Summerhouse, but it needs a new cushion.