Kindle British & Irish Mystery Book Club discussion

Nominations are open for the April Group Read. Nominations will close on Wednesday 20th March 2024 at midnight GMT. If voting is then required a poll on the nominated books will run after nominations close until and including Friday 29th March 2024 at midnight GMT.

Rules:
1) All nominations in this thread please
2) Please when nominating a book make sure even if it is a book in a series that it can be read as a standalone and not all the series required first.
3) No books we have read in the last 12 months and our list of books read as group nominations can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
4) Where possible try to do the same with authors and not one we have read in the last 12 months.
5) No self nominations from authors please.
6) It must qualify as a British Mystery as we are a British Mystery Book Club. If you want to know more on what qualifies then please read the thread "What Is A British Mystery?" where we had a discussion on this and decided. It is at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
7) If you nominate and the book becomes a group read it would be good if you could be the discussion leader on it for that month.
8) Any problems or queries then message me.

Please note the bookshelf to check books is the old group for the moment as we only have this months on here

Right 3 days left to get some nominations in.

My Nomination is


None of This Is True by Lisa Jewel

blurb....
"Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th.

A few days later, they bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie says she thinks she would be an interesting subject for Alix's podcast. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Alix agrees to a trial interview and indeed, Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated. Alix finds her unsettling but can't quite resist the temptation to keep digging.

Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has cajoled her way into Alix's life - and into her home.

Soon Alix begins to wonder who is Josie Fair really? And what has she done?"

Link to Book on Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3PlBtoM
Current Price £2.99

I have just finished The Lost Girls of Penzance by Sally Rigby, which I enjoyed, finding the setting in Cornwall attractive.
The second book in the series is The Hidden Graves of St Ives by Sally Rigby.
I think this could be read as a standalone and would like to nominate it. These books are available on Kindle Unlimited. Also can be purchased on the Amazon UK site for £1.99 and in Australia for $4.99.

I nominate Without a Trace, by Malcolm Forsythe.

‘Eight-year-old Maisie Brown, a blonde, blue-eyed drum majorette, is kidnapped on the day of Tanniford’s annual fête. One moment she’s there, talking to her friend Vicki, the next she’s gone.

Chief Inspector Millson suspects Maisie’s stepfather. He dislikes stepfathers. His own daughter has one and he resents having to arrange with him when he can see her.

Tanniford lies on the bend of a river. The only road out is over the railway bridge. And the local police had closed that road to traffic during the fête. So no vehicle could have left between two and six.

Therefore — whether or not it was Maisie’s stepfather — Millson is convinced that she was abducted by someone in the village. And that she’s still there — dead or alive.’

OK then the three books above are the vote to whittle it down to the two for the April reads.
Poll is at https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Last day to vote, so if you haven't yet get, it in now.