Book Club - Reading Recommendations

A List of Recommended Books for Summer Anytime Reading

Ruth Rutledge: Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Kimmerer Cosmos - Carl Sagan Violet Smythe: Burial Rites - Hannah Kent The Paris Seamstress - Natasha Lester The Violets of March - Sarah Jio The Way of the Gardener, Lost in the Weeds along the Camino De Santiago - Lyndon Penner

Debbie Craig: A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles Mary Nelson: The Jane Austin Society - Natalie Jenner The Evening and the Morning - Ken Follet. This is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Jeanette Rawek: Rules of Civility - Amor Towles Cathie Harrower: The Island of the Sea Women - Lisa See The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish Julia Lowood: Diana - Ingrid Seward Betty Locke: American Dirt - Jeanne Cummins Marion Craig: Book I, Nothing Ventured - Jeffery Archer Book II, Hidden in Plain Sight - Jeffery Archer Book III, Turn a Blind Eye will be published next year This is a new series of books about Detective Constable William Warwick who works at Scotland Yard. He tracks down thieves that steal paintings from galleries and partakes in capturing a leading drug dealer in London. Tricia Field: Jean-Luc Bannalec (pseudonym for a German author, Jorg Bong who divides his time between Rhineland and Brittany!) who had begun a mystery series about a detective superintendent, Georges Dupin, formerly of the Surete, but demoted to the Brittany outpost. It's a delightful series! I've just finished #5, The Killing Tide, and will soon be looking for Book #6. The author weaves travelogue and mystery masterfully with wonderful characters. Excellent! The second series is by a Vancouver author, Iona Whishaw, formerly a social worker and award-winning school administrator. Both her parents were spies in WW II, and she writes mysteries often with elements of espionage. I'm now on Book #8, "A Lethal Lesson", featuring Lane Winslow, an English spy who was dropped behind enemy lines in France. Lane has come to Canada in 1946, and bought a home in Balfour, near Nelson, in the Kootenays. And mystery and mayhem are always attracted to her, as is the local Detective Inspector! It's well-written and also an outstanding series.