The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Godmother's Secret

J.P. Reedman ❤️ loved this book because...

A new twist of the possible fate of the 'Princes in the Tower', made even more notable because the protagonist was a real person who could indeed have played a part in the mystery, but is virtually unknown until Elizabeth St John gave her a voice.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Elizabeth St John,

Why should I read it?

5 authors picked The Godmother's Secret as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

If you knew the fate of the Princes in the Tower would you tell? Or forever keep the secret?May 1483: The Tower of London. When King Edward IV dies and Lady Elysabeth Scrope delivers her young godson, Edward V, into the Tower of London to prepare for his coronation, she is engulfed in political turmoil. Within months, the prince and his brother have disappeared, Richard III is declared king, and Elysabeth’s sister Margaret Beaufort conspires with her son Henry Tudor to invade England and claim the throne.

Desperate to protect her godson, Elysabeth battles the intrigue, betrayal and power of…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The House of Small Shadows

J.P. Reedman ❤️ loved this book because...

I've been on a horror jag foe the past years or two and Adam is the British Steven King IMO. All of his horror books are recommended. Supernatural horror, not so much gory (most of the time) as creepy and eerie. You'll never feel the same about dolls and puppets after you've read this one.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Adam Nevill,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The House of Small Shadows as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 16, and 17.

What is this book about?

House of Small Shadows is the disturbing novel about a modern phobia - the fear of dolls and puppets - from award-winning horror author Adam Nevill.

The Red House: home to the damaged genius of the late M. H. Mason, master taxidermist and puppeteer, where he lived and created some of his most disturbing works. The building and its treasure trove of antiques is long forgotten, but the time has come for his creations to rise from the darkness.

Catherine Howard can't believe her luck when she's invited to value the contents of the house. When she first sees the…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Mists of Middleham

J.P. Reedman ❤️ loved this book because...

Brian writes amazing medieval works. His most famous character is Alianor Audley. This one had some fantasy elements, and the trademark humour that runs through his Alianor stories. The fantastic thing is that the humour is never the kind that pulls you out of the historical story, and his actual knowledge of the period and its main players is awe-inspiring

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Brian Wainwright,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Mists of Middleham as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Alianore and her husband receive a new commission from King Edward IV. He has heard that the Holy Grail is to be found somewhere within his dominions - and he wants them to find it!

At the same time, Jasper Tudor is suspected of trying to organise a new rebellion in Wales. Can he be stopped? Can the Grail be found? Will Alianore ever achieve her ambition of being allowed to retire to her home to grow gilly flowers?


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Princess in the Police Station

By J.P. Reedman,

Book cover of Princess in the Police Station

What is my book about?

1964, Workmen digging on a bombsite in London uncover a hidden vault containing a lead coffin. The coffin is almost reburied in a mass grave in a local churchyard, but an old retired policeman, examining the sarcophagus in the police station where the find has been taken, notices a plaque attached to the leaden lid. What he reads, stuns him--this is not a an unknown medieval nun or noblewoman.
The coffin's occupant is a child--a Princess, Anne Mowbray, wife of Richard of Shrewsbury, one of the infamous Princes in the Tower, who disappeared in 1483...

Dual timeline story set in the 1960's and the years 1472-1502, following the finding of Anne Mowbray's coffin, through the story of her brief life, burial and first reburial as witnessed by her mother, Elizabeth Talbot, to her final reinterment in Westminster Abbey.

Book cover of The Godmother's Secret
Book cover of The House of Small Shadows
Book cover of The Mists of Middleham

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