My Year In Books – Quarter Three 2020

So. Quarter three. We emerged from lockdown. I turned 45. I ate a lot of chocolate. I read some books. Not as many, but enough. I’m still impressed with my total. I think I slowed down a little here, partly because, as a nation, we regained a little freedom and I, like many of my friends, decided to make the most of it whilst it lasted, knowing that things would all change again soon enough. I was from later in the summer that my attention started to wain and my reading mojo started to dip. But I still managed to read and review some very fab books so here is my Q3 roundup.

Nine Elms – Robert Byrndza
Written In Blood – Chris Carter
The Resident – David Jackson
Lies – T.M. Logan
Invisible Girl – Lisa Jewell
One Eye Open – Paul Finch
Knife Edge – Simon Mayo
The Last To Know – Jo Furniss
The Less Dead – Denise Mina
The Chosen Seven – Gill D. Anderson
Bad Day At The Vulture Club – Vaseem Khan
A Song of Isolation – Michael J. Malone
Deadly Harvest – Michael Stanley
The Seven Doors – Agnes Ravatn
Southern Cross Crime – Craig Sisterson
Fifty Fifty – Steve Cavanagh
The Defenceless – Kati Hiekkapelto
The House Share – Kate Helm

Jihadi: A Love Story – Yusuf Toropov
Private Moscow – James patterson & Adam Hamdy
Brothers In Blood – Amer Anwar
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
Midnight at Malabar House – Vaseem Khan
Betrayal – Lilja Sigurdardottir
The Heatwave – Katerina Diamond
The Hummingbird – Kati Hiekkapelto
The Life We Almost Had – Amelia Henley
Stone Cold Trouble – Amer Anwar
The Rhino Conspiracy – Peter Hain
Stolen Children – Michael Wood
A Song For the Dark Times – Ian Rankin
Nowhere To Run – Rachel Amphlett
Survive – Tom Bale
The Stolen Sisters – Louise Jensen
Cut Short – M.W. Craven
Playdate – Alex Dahl

A Prayer For The Broken – Mark Tilbury
No Fear – Casey Kelleher
The Fox – Solveig Palsdottir
A Death in The Family – Michael Stanley
Dead Perfect – Noelle Holten
Pulpit Rock – Kate Rhodes
The Christmas Killer – Alex Pine

43 books in three months? Not bad I guess. I listened to far fewer audiobooks over this period and this really was the start of my great reading decline so I’m as curious as you are (or probably aren’t) about how that translated into quarter four reads. Come back tomorrow and we can find out.

Jen xx