The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Last Devil to Die

Susan McCormick ❤️ loved this book because...

I love this gang of elderly sleuths, and I hope this was not their last caper. I adore books with older characters, and these are fully drawn with real-life tragedies. This book was hilarious and heartbreaking. A line regarding the title: Waiting for the last devil to die? What a joke. New devils will always spring up, like daffodils in springtime.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐕 Steady

By Richard Osman,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked The Last Devil to Die as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman

You'd think you be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club.

On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is smuggled across the English coast. When it goes missing, chaos is unleashed. The body count starts to rise – including someone close to the Thursday Murder Club--as our gang face an impossible search, and their most deadly opponents yet.

With the clock ticking down and a killer heading to Cooper’s Chase, has their…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Last Word

Susan McCormick ❤️ loved this book because...

Another book with elderly sleuths, this one Edwin, half of a private detective agency with a case involving the deaths of too many writers. A fun story, enough twists and turns to confuse, but really just a joy to read about these characters. There are several in this series, but each can be read as a standalone.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐕 Steady

By Elly Griffiths,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Last Word as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Words turn deadly with an unlikely detective duo on the case of a murdered obituary writer in this literary mystery from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and the Thursday Murder Club.

Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he’s the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, Ukrainian-born and more than fifty years his junior, is a math whizz, who takes any cases concerning fraud or deception.…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Husband's Secret

Susan McCormick ❤️ loved this book because...

I love everything Liane Moriarty writes. This one was wonderful. A wife's marriage is destroyed by her best friend, a woman's family is destroyed by a husband's secret, a mother's life is destroyed by her daughter's death. Ethical questions abound, and you feel yourself trapped in decisions you might have made yourself. Fully fleshed, believable characters, each dealing with angst and moral dilemmas. I couldn't fathom how the book would end, and the ending was perfect. An epilogue gives an even more satisfying conclusion. Great book.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 Fast

By Liane Moriarty,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES AND APPLES NEVER FALL

One of the Best Books of the Year—Entertainment Weekly
One of the Top Ten Books of the Year—People

At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read…

My darling Cecilia,
If you’re reading this, then I’ve died…
 
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not only the life you…


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The Fog Ladies

By Susan McCormick,

Book cover of The Fog Ladies

What is my book about?

Book 1 in this award-winning, endearing cozy murder mystery series.
Young, overworked medical intern Sarah James has no time for sleuthing. Her elderly neighbors, the spunky Fog Ladies, have nothing but time. When old ladies start to die in their elegant apartment building in San Francisco, Sarah assumes it is the natural consequence of growing old. The Fog Ladies assume murder.

Mrs. Bridge falls off a stool cleaning bugs out of her kitchen light. Mrs. Talwin slips on bubbles in the bath and drowns. The Pacific Heights building is turning over tenants faster than the fog rolls in on a cool San Francisco evening.

Sarah resists the Fog Ladies’ perseverations. But when one of them falls down the stairs and tells Sarah she was pushed, even Sarah believes evil lurks in their building. Can they find the killer before the killer finds them?