Top 5 Saturday is a weekly meme created by Mandy @Devouring Books and it’s where we list top five books (they can be books from your TBR, favorite books, books you loved/hated based on the week’s topic.
I’ve missed last Saturday’s topic, so I am going to catch up today instead! Top 5 detective books on my shelves.
Let’s start!
Top 1: The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I think there’s no need to introduce this book. It’s the world’s famous genius fictional detective. For an unreal person he’s for sure got too many retellings and tv-adaptations, let alone computer games. Why do I love Sherlock so much? Have no idea! Maybe because he doesn’t give a fig for whatever anyone thinks of him, and he is crazy brave in the face of danger. What else does a girl need to fell in love?!
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Top 2: These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly.
Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver. One of New York City’s wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far too smart to clean a loaded gun.
The more Jo uncovers about her father’s death, the more her suspicions grow. There are too many secrets. And they all seem to be buried in plain sight. Then she meets Eddie—a young, brash, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father’s newspaper—and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be too late to stop.
The past never stays buried forever. Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and the truth is the dirtiest part of all.
Another one of my all-time favorite detectives! To be honest, it is not a pure detective story, but a mix of historical fiction, detective and romance. Apart from the mystery I absolute adore how Jennifer Donnelly nailed the topic of feminism in this one. Just ab-so-lu-te-ly fantastic!
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Top 3: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?
This one is on my TBR list, and I am very excited to read it. I have a thing for girls obsessed with murder (looks at Truly Devious). Let’s see how it goes!
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Top 4: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.
August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods, never to be heard from again; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.
Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country’s most respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer’s block as his publisher’s deadline looms. But Marcus’s plans are violently upended when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case murder of Nola Kellergan – with whom, he admits, he had an affair.
As the national media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his own investigation, following a trail of clues through his mentor’s books, the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, and the hidden history of Somerset’s citizens and the man they hold most dear. To save Harry, his own writing career, and eventually even himself, Marcus must answer three questions, all of which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened one misty morning in Somerset in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a book to save someone’s life?
A chart-topping worldwide phenomenon, with sales approaching a million copies in France alone and rights sold in more than thirty countries, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.
This book is a recommendation from my dear friend. She read it and loved it. And what a friend would I be if I wouldn’t give this book a try?! Plus, the premise sounds fantastic.
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Top 5: A Curious Beginning
by Deanna Raybourn
London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron who has ties to her mysterious past. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
Veronica Speedwell has been on my TBR list for ages. It’s a series of historical fiction/mystery books. I’ve heard it has unconventional feminist heroine and hot guys. Well, I definitely have to read it sooner!
This were my top 5 most anticipated YA books on my TBR. And what is your list of 5 favorites? Please, share it down below!
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