Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

Favorites are bolded:

Mysteries/Thrillers:
* Cassie P Caribbean PI by Cecil Browne -3. Author from and book set in St. Vincent.
* The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson -5. Delightful! Love all of this author's work. A murder mystery based on the actual couple who developed the game Cluedo (Clue in the US).
* The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman -5. Book 5 of the Thursday Murder Club and I think my favorite so far.
* A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant -3.5, to commemorate Black History month in the UK. Author's Jamaican grandparents moved to England in the 1950s as part of the Windrush generation. I liked this well enough to continue the series if she writes it.
* Murder in the Valleys by Pippa McCathie -4.5. First book in a series set in Wales by an author born in Mauritius. Was quite impressed with this debut.
* Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon -4.5. Book 3 of the Cash Blackbear series. To commemorate US Indigenous Peoples' Day (Oct 13) (and because I love this series.)
* Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius -5. To commemorate International Day of the Girl Child (Oct 11th), but honestly have been wanting to read this for months. Translated from Swedish, this is a coming-of-age historical fiction written as a thriller about the reindeer herders in the Northern Sami Sapmi region of Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Russia. I lived this long and omg didn't know reindeer were real. 🤦🏻‍♀️. A 9 year old girl sees the man who murders her special reindeer, to 10 years later getting her revenge. Learned so much about the culture and the ways in which non-Sami and the countries governments treated them. Great read (just a bit dark, but not as much as I expected)

Other:
* At the Foot of Blue Mountains edited by Shavkat Niyazi -3.5. Anthology of short stories by male writers from Tajikstan, translated from the Russian. (Out of print-had to read via Internet Archive website, which was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.) Some were really good.
* Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes -4
* Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom, collection of short stories written by a Chinese Canadian trans author.
* Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun -5. Collection of short stories, written by an author who is a resident of the writer-in-exile program in Pittsburgh PA. Second book I have read of hers and loved this one more.
* We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures by Amnesty International -4.5, to commemorate United Nations Day (Oct 24th). The UN developed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to ensure that the travesties of WW2 did not happen again...

What a nice variety Gail, I also loved this latest Thursday Murder Club book, The Impossible Fortune is a favorite of this series for me as well. The evolution of our favorite characters is a big plus. The Christmas Clue looks fun.

I am interested in Murder in the Valleys! Will probably add it to my list. Great month of reading!