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This temptations is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.

I missed posting the last couple of Friday updates due to other unplanned commitments, and given we had a long weekend somewhere in there as well, there's been quite a bit of movement in this list.

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Like, Follow, Die by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

This temptations is upcoming releases, one young adult, one that's a science fiction / mystery crossover.

I've heard from a few people now that some loser is out there sending partnership offers or some other garbage purporting to be from me, Karen Chisholm at a Gmail address.

It's not me needless to say, report the email address as a spammer / faker if you can otherwise delete and block. 

This crud has been mentioned on Bluesky for a while now. 

So many horrible people, so little joy in the world these days. 

For a change, this time a random selection of favourite series reads - most local, one from Scandinavia.

Darian Richards series by Tony Cavanaugh

Billy Glasheen series by Peter Doyle

This time the temptations are made up of soon to be, recently released and a few in the way off category.

There's not going to be a lot of posting here over the next few days. Vale Lady Penelope and fingers crossed for the other elderly's experiencing all sorts of health problems.

This time the temptations are made up of soon to be, recently released and a few in the way off category.

This update hasn't been happening recently - I've been dealing with a tsunami of elderly animal health challenges which have just chewed up every available waking hour, to say nothing of creating a severe dose of frazzled brain syndrome. 

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Honey by Imani Thompson

This time the temptations are made up of soon to be released, quite a way off release, and things I recently lucked upon.

There are SO MANY tempting books around at the moment it's panic inducing in a happy, but equally challenging way - it would be so nice to be able to read / comment on everything but here we are.

Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. Not the worst problem, I've got, but apologies, as always to the authors and publishers wondering why I'm always so far behind!

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I think I'm reading too many books at once - so nothing in the just finished pile in the last week but quite a few in the currently reading which are nearly there.

Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. What a "dreadful" problem to have.

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The Bookshop Detectives: Tea & Cake & Death by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward (2026 Ngaio's)

The days are definitely shortening now which means the Spring Classics bike racing is in full swing, which means no sleep and a freaked out dog from all the ooing and jumping every time a rider gets into some risky trouble.

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Lucky Thing by Tom Baragwanath (2026 Ngaio's)

This update is bought to you in the aftermath of an Easter break where not enough reading got done. To be honest, not a lot of anything much got done, I started wading through a recently deceased relative's boxes of photos and disappeared down some very nostalgic byways.

This update is bought to you a day early because of the Easter Break which, this year, I hope will be focused on reading, in the spirit of the Norway Easter Crime Tradition. Fingers crossed the weather co-operates and nobody sets fire to anything for a change.  

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Three Reasons for Revenge by Dervla McTiernan 

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What You Don't Know by Sandi Wallace 

The Strength of Old Shale by Kirsty Powell  (2026 Ngaio's)

Still managing to not read enough books. The silver lining of the current fuel price / shortage problems is for us that may mean less callouts to illegal / improperly extinguished fires and a bit of downtime over Easter for ourselves for a change.

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Black Velvet and Vengeance by Deborah Challinor 

Part life story, part inspirational memoir, BLOOM is life from Mary Fowler's point of view. And it's been quite the ride for such a young, talented woman....

I've reviewed this decidedly not crime fiction book over on my Hardcover account.

I hope that, because it's Friday the 13th, my current streak of looking vaguely like I'm catching up doesn't end in a screaming heap.

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Bang! by Taliyah Stone