What Fiction are you reading this week, June 28, 2026?

[hermetic]

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I'm reading Preston & Childs' Dead Mountain. A group of young skiers doesn't return from a crosscountry ski trip in New Mexico's Manzano mountains. Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI agent Corrie Swanson try to uncover what happened to them on a cold and isolating mountain but begin to fear it may be their hardest case to crack yet. As usual, this duo of authors grabs your attention and won't let you put the book down.

Listening to Twisted Prey by John Sandford. Lots of political intrigue and typically clueless Repubs.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Just finished "Don't You Cry' by Mary Kubica. Thinking of starting 'The Lying Game' by Ruth Ware.

[hermetic]

5. Gotta read that one...

"Mary Kubica takes readers on a taut and twisted thrill ride that builds to a stunning conclusion and shows that no matter how fast and far we run, the past always catches up with us."

I also enjoy Ware's books. Haven't read that one yet.

[cbabe]

2. The Tree of Light and Flowers/Thomas Perry

A Jane Whitefield thriller. Probable the last as Perry has died.

Starts strong but sags in the middle. Not the usual amazing Perry writing makes me wonder if this was a draft rushed into publishing due to his death.

I recommend anyway.

Jane Whitefield is used to protecting vulnerable people, but after she gives birth, the fugitives she must rescue are her own family.

Blood Money/Thomas Perry

An earlier Jane novel. So good. Stealing billions from the mafia. You know they want it back.

[The Roux Comes First]

3. Wow - Those Are Both Going on My "To Be Read" List! I'm Finally Starting "Emperor of Gladness"

[txwhitedove]

4. Happy summer, temps climbing now. Three of my library holds arrived

simultaneously, but all 3 are non-fiction so oops...

Now reading The Ride of Her Life, author Elizabeth Letts. A fun, funny, fast read that is a wonderful look back at a 1950's post war America that I remember, changing from rural to suburbia. "In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness."

[hermetic]

6. That sounds nice

[Polly Hennessey]

7. I'm reading a new bedtime cozy by Laura Childs, Murder

in the Tea Leaves. Lots of fun, tea ☕️ pastries 🥐 and murder. “When Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie Dark Fortunes, things go from spooky to worse. Lights are dimmed, the camera rolls, and red-hot sparks fly as the film’s director is murdered in a tricky electrical accident”

Am listening to The Plague by Albert Camus.

[mentalsolstice]

8. I'm reading "So Far Gone" by Jess Walter

Hermetic, you recommended this one several weeks ago. Thank you!!!

Have a great week everyone!

[cbabe]

9. This looks good. I put on library hold. Thanks.

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[Bayard]

10. "Telegraph Days, by Larry McMurty

"Follows the adventures of an intelligent and headstrong woman, Nellie Courtright, in the American Old West. McMurtry satirizes Nellie's encounters with several notable figures, including Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, and Billy the Kid. The book is a comedy and a parody of these figures."

Serious rain and flooding here in southern KY makes for serious reading.

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13. I'll have to check that out

Serious rain around here, too. Most welcome in my area but some towns got major flooding.

[LogDog75]

11. Don't Let Go by Harlan Corben

Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas hasn’t been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks—and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother’s death. And now, it looks as though he may finally find what he’s been looking for.

When Maura’s fingerprints turn up in the rental car of a suspected murderer, Nap embarks on a quest for answers that only leads to more questions—about the woman he loved, about the childhood friends he thought he knew, about the abandoned military base near where he grew up, and mostly about Leo and Diana—whose deaths are darker and far more sinister than Nap ever dared imagine.
https://jennblogsbooks.com/2017/09/26/book-review-dont-let-go-by-harlan-coben/

[hermetic]

12. That sounds really good

Thanks!

[Unwind Your Mind]

16. I think I've read that one twice

So good. Harlan Coben is a favorite

[Jeebo]

14. Re-reading "Way Station" by Clifford Simak

Lately I've been re-reading a lot of my favorite novels, and this is certainly one. If there are any Hollywood screen writers out there reading this, "Way Station" would make a terrific science fiction movie or TV series.

-- Ron

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15. Cool story

From 1963.

[MIButterfly]

17. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

It was one of my Book of the Month Club selections from a couple of years ago that I finally got around to.

I was looking at the end to see how pages it is when I accidentally read some of the ending. I hate when that happens.

[txwhitedove]

18. Wow, hugely popular. Just downloaded to read. Thanks.