🏅Top Shelf Tuesday 🏅

Happy Tuesday everyone!

This week’s pick is:

No Man Left Behind (Iris Williams & Annette Toni)
R.G. Miller
Police Procedural, Thriller
Kindle
Published 7/24/2017

I received this book in 2018 as a Goodreads giveaway. The short blurb grabbed my attention immediately!

“He lurks in the abandon subway tunnel under New York City. An Ex-Marine who was left to die in the steaming jungles of Vietnam in 1975 by his commanding officer.
Homicide Detective Iris Williams had thought she seen it all until she and her partner and lover Detective Annette Toni are called in to investigate a horrific murder of an entire family. The case becomes a nightmare for the detectives as they crawl deeper and deeper into the mind of a man that the media is calling, THE PIGGYBACK KILLER.”

I found a spot for it right away in the reading challenge I was completing that year, the prompt: A book with a LGBTQ+ protagonist. This book really did have everything in it for me. I love the characters, Homicide Detectives Iris Williams and Annette Toni. Who doesn’t love a powerful, smart, beautiful lead woman?! How about two!? As a girl I wanted to become a homicide detective myself, actually full disclosure I wanted to work for the FBI in the BAU. Thanks Clarice Starling! 🤣 I was even enrolled at Saint Cloud State University with a major in Criminal Justice and a minor in Psychology; but life takes their own turns sometimes.

Anyway… so I have a proclivity towards books with strong female detectives, special agents, or private investigators. I’m sure you have seen a trend. If you like those brutal, graphic murder thrillers like The Silence of the Lambs, like I do, then you will enjoy this one too.

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🔸️🔸️Book Mail!🔸️🔸️

Oh it has been a week!  So glad it’s the weekend and I get a chance to relax a bit.  I finally got to do a little reading today, the first time all week my book has left my bedstand.
But aside from being ridiculously busy, I received some great looking books this week!  I love the variety!  😍

Facing the Dawn
Cynthia Ruchti
Christian Fiction
Publication Date: 3/2/2021

Mara is struggling with her current path in life.  Her husband is across the world, digging wells in Africa, she is home working a demanding job, trying to raise their three detention prone children and failing to keep up on the house duties.  Then a devastating loss occurs and she must lean on those around her to heal and find her faith again.

Perfect on Paper
Sophia Gonzales
Young Adult, LGBTQ+
Publication Date: 3/9/2021

Darcy, a bisexual teen, gives anonymous dating advice to her classmates for a fee.  When popular hot guy, Brougham catches on to her, he blackmails her into helping him get his ex girlfriend back.

Murder Unseen
Book 17 DI Skelgill Investigates Series
Bruce Beckham
Mystery
Publication Date: 1/9/2021

A 37 year old woman goes missing.  Young detective DS Emma Jones is leading the investigation.  With suspects including a new boyfriend, a married coworker who was having an affair with the missing woman, and an ex lover, police certainly have their work cut out for them.

A Touch of Defiance
Book 5 Nick Bracco Thriller Series
Gary Ponzo
Thriller
Publication Date: 3/3/2017

FBI Agent Nick Bracco and his team must track down a racial zealot group before a possible terrorist attack.  He turns to his mafia connected cousin to help him track them down by means not available to the FBI.

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