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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2591 KP) rated Irish Milkshake Murder in Books

Jan 4, 2024 (Updated Jan 4, 2024)  
Irish Milkshake Murder
Irish Milkshake Murder
Carlene O'Connor, Liz Ireland, Peggy Ehrhart | 2023 | Mystery
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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Three Tales of Unlucky Milkshakes
Get ready for murder and mayhem around St. Patrick’s Day with these three fun novellas. Up first, we get “Irish Milkshake Murder” from Carlene O’Connor, which finds Tara Meehan and Danny O’Donnell’s pre-wedding party running into a storm that traps them on an island with a killer. Next up, Peggy Ehrhart takes us to New Jersey in “Murder Most Irish.” Her series characters Pamela Paterson and Bettina Fraser are on hand when a man collapses in his lunch at a local diner. But was it murder? Finally, we travel to the north pole with Liz Ireland’s “Mrs. Claus and the Luckless Leprechaun.” Spring is iceball season at the North Pole, but late after a game one night, the injured star of the local team is attacked. Can Mrs. Claus figure out who did it and why?

Since this is a novella collection, all three of these stories are fast reads. But the authors still pack in plenty of twists. They also do a good job of introducing their characters and the worlds they inhabit, so it is easy to jump in if you aren’t familiar with them. The St. Patrick’s Day theme is strong in each story as well. This is a book you’ll be happy to pull out in March and enjoy with your favorite minty milkshake. Who knows, you might even find a new series to read.
  
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David McK (3816 KP) rated The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spiers #2) in Books

Aug 26, 2024 (Updated Aug 26, 2024)  
The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spiers #2)
The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spiers #2)
Jim Butcher | 2023
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Well, that was a long wait.

Approximately 10 years (edit: 8, to be precise) since the publication of the previous full-length entry in this series (The Aeronaut's Windlass).

So it's just as well I went back and read that recently, as well as the recently-published 'interquel' short story of Warriorborn.

I *would* advise reading that short story first, since this picks up almost immediately from the end of said story: Benedict jumps at the end of the latter, AMS Predator catches him at the start of this.

That sentence will make more sense to any who have read it.

Anyway, what we have is another full-blown Steampunk novel, with war brewing between the home Spires/nations of the world in which it is set, and with some heavy hints towards the end that it is set in 'our' world, but in the far far (and largely dystopian) future - I also got a bit of a vibe of that bit in 2005's 'King Kong' film where they are on Skull Island and surrounded by giant man-eating millipedes etc (which is why, in the story, the surface world is so feared).

Let's hope I don't have to wait so long for the next instalment

Or even for a new Harry Dresden (my favourite of Butcher's works) story

(with the author even apologising for the wait for this in his authors note at the end)