Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
If you are interested in winning a book for your mailbox this week you can enter my blogiversary giveaway here.
What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross (from Simon & Shuster)
Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with it for twenty-one years.
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (from Ryan for the Bookish Secret Santa)
Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme – Young Adventurers Ltd.
Their advertisement says they are ‘willing to do anything, go anywhere’. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined…
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen (from Ryan again)
Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband’s degenerate nephew is found murdered, it’s more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery and class prejudice, is pointing towards her son as a potential suspect.
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Ryan was generous, yes?)
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step.
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I have read both Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman and The Devotion of Suspect X and really enjoyed them. I hope you will too, Stacy! You can’t go wrong with Agatha Christie. 🙂 Enjoy your new books!
Ryan was generous but I’m not surprised. All of your books look great!
What a great bunch of books! Yes, Agatha Christie is always good. And I think I have a copy of The Devotion of Suspect X on my Kindle. Plus I want to read What Was Mine. That’s the one about the lady who takes the baby from the grocery store or somewhere and then it’s over 20 years later, right? Yes, I want to read that one. Enjoy, Stacy!!
What Was Mine sounds I gotta read it!
Enjoy your books. You’ve got a two of my favorites in that stack.
I don’t think I’ve heard of that Christie book before. It sounds pretty good!
Nice mailbox. Just enough books to keep you busy!!
Death of a Dishonorable Gentlemen looks good.
ENJOY your reading week.
Elizabeth
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Enjoy the Keigo Highshino! Love his books.
What Was Mine seems to be making the rounds. Happy reading
Great mailbox! I heard a lot of good on The Devotion of Suspect X, I’ve been wanting to read it for a while.
Happy reading!