All the Books on my TBR shelf which are under the table whilst the Christmas decorations are up.

Can you believe that we are in the twelth month already!  Another year of Book Club Books almost done and a new year of reading to do, although my TBR is groaning at the moment and I really do need to find more time to read.  I love reading and getting into a really good book but days and weeks fly by and I find I have not read a thing which I am really hoping I am going to change in the New Year.  I am also going to spend some time over the Christmas holidays reading.

Just how bad it is at the moment I am still reading November’s pick for Book Club Friday but I do have quite a few which I am going to show you for the last Book Club of 2024.  At this time of year I do love to read books about Christmas so I have picked a few that are on the floor ready to read from now until the New Year, although I will probably be reading the Christmas books in June next year!!!

You know I love a good murder mystery and this book apparently delivers an amazing twist.  Ashley Smith is a lonely American student studying in London and is asked to spend the Christmas holidays with her classmate and family at their Cotswold mansion,  It is slightly run down but elegant but what mystery is awaiting Ashley and why is the Chapman family very mysterious.  What horrors await her? 

This book is a Victorian Murder Mystery where the poor Gwendolen Kilmuir was supposed to get engaged to Bertie Roythe at the Christmas party when a cruel remark is made about her and she flees the room only to be found dead in the Lake on the estate the next morning.  Her friends vow to make the guilty party confess in the process of taking a letter to Gwendolen’s mother, in the North of Scotland, which she wrote before her death.  I think I am going to love this book.

I am late to the party with this book as it has appeared on several peoples’ Instabook posts and they all love it.  Kira North is not a fan of Christmas yet she has bought a Christmas Tree Farm in a town which in her words “is too cute for it’s own good”!  Bennett Ellis is in the too cute town trying to take a break and his incessant need to fix things.  Bennett gets stuck at Kira’s farm by a snowdrift but can the fairy lights and hot chocolate give them a Christmas to remember?  This is bound to become a Hallmark movie at some point!!!!

You know how we were discussing whether you ever choose a book because of its cover the other week?  Well I do choose books because of their covers and not many times have I gone wrong with it.  So I choose the first book because it is a murder on a train which you know I love.  Then I saw an advert for the second book and I thought that sounds like a good one the Jigsaw murders (I love jigsaws) and finally the third book I just had to have, The Christmas Murders.  It was only when I was sorting them out that I realised they have all been written by one Author; Alexandra Benedict!!!  How silly am I?!!!! 

Anywho they are all murder mysteries which I love so I am sure I am going to like them and these are the three books I am going to read over the Christmas holidays.  I will let you know how I get on!

I hope you have enjoyed the 2024 Susie’s Friday Book Club and will join me in 2025 for more books and as always I will leave the page up with the books for you to look back on.  I am determined that 2025 is going to be a big year for reading!!! 

I hope you find time to do some reading. 

Reading Hugs & a mug of hot chocolate Love, Susie & Coco of course. xxxx