MandolinDan rated Blackmail and Bibingka: 3 stars
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MandolinDan rated Killers of a Certain Age: 3 stars
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in …
MandolinDan rated A World of Curiosities: 4 stars
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, #18)
MandolinDan rated The Spare Man: 3 stars
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Robinette Kowal
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for …
MandolinDan rated Second wind: 2 stars
Second wind by Dick Francis
Flying in the eye of a hurricane, a plane carrying TV reporter Perry Stuart crashes in the Caribbean. In this …
MandolinDan rated Land of shadows: 4 stars
Land of shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall (A Detective Elouise Norton novel)
A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a …
MandolinDan rated The Cybernetic Tea Shop: 4 stars
The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz
Clara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. Her childhood in a migrant worker family …
MandolinDan rated The World We Make: 4 stars
The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities, #2)
All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily …
MandolinDan rated Wife of the gods: 4 stars
Wife of the gods by Kwei J. Quartey
An original debut novel set in Ghana, is the story of Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, who is sent from the …
MandolinDan rated Rat Race: 3 stars
Rat Race by Dick Francis
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job …
MandolinDan rated The Golden Enclaves: 3 stars
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
MandolinDan rated Aurora Rising: 3 stars
MandolinDan rated The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1): 3 stars
The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1) by Robert Crais
The Monkey's Raincoat is a 1987 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the first in a series of linked …
MandolinDan rated Bloomsbury Girls: 3 stars
MandolinDan rated The distant echo: 4 stars
The distant echo by Val McDermid
From McDermid's webpage: "Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three …