Monty's Book Reviews

  Special Edition of Daffodils and Deadly Deeds Do you enjoy clean heartwarming mysteries with gentle humour and a lighter tone - nothing too graphic, gory or profound? Are you intrigued by small town charm and historic English settings? Do you relish teaming up with a savvy female amateur sleuth to solve a puzzling whodunit? Then you'll love Daffodils and Deadly Deeds. Cosy crime whodunit, Daffodils and Deadly Deeds, is the latest installment in the Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery series featuring thirty-three-year-old aspiring antique expert, Dotty Sayers, and her British Blue cat, Earl Grey. (If you’d like to find out how Dotty was drawn into her first case - read the free series prequel  here .) Readers have been rooting for Dotty in the previous eight books in the series as she grows from a downtrodden, timid, military widow, to an independent young woman. Through hard work and her ability to connect the dots, she's blossoming into a confident i...

With 2024 now nearly a week old, I thought I'd compile a list of my top ten books of 2023. Unfortunately I've not been able to whittle it down to just ten so I tried to make it my favourite ten authors. Once again I failed as there are so many great books I didn't want to leave out. Even so I've had to be harsh and leave out many that would've made last years list (what do you mean I didn't publish a list last year? Yeah, I know, I was too busy reading and writing reviews and I completely forgot) My list is composed of 15 authors and contains 42 books from a variety of genres (it could easily have been 60 books from the 400 I read last year (ok, some of those were quite short and I've not got much else to do) Lets get on with it I hear you yell, so without further ado and in no particular order, these were my favourite reads of 2023 Scratch that. I'm going to list them in alphabetical order by author surname so no further favouritism can be gleaned from ...