Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Favourites of 2025

A belated welcome to the blog in 2026. As you can see from my Goodreads montage below I did not have a great reading year in 2025, in terms of quantity. As I've alluded to, circumstances at home have not been conducive to reading, and so I turned to children's books in the main to keep me going. I'm hoping this year will see a return to form!

What I have been enjoying enormously are the British Library Crime Classics. Three of my top reads were their reissues of Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand, The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson and very recently Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth (I hope we see more of hers reprinted).

Another top read (listen) was A Death in Damonds by S J Bennett read by Samantha Bond. I'm only a couple of weeks away from getting the next book on the series via the library's Borrowbox app.

It's a long way off but I'm really looking forward to the new Marple story by Lucy Foley: Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.

Also, please note, the Petrona 2026 will be opening for business shortly. 

Euro Crime's read-in-2025 

A Death in Diamonds
Cat and Mouse: A Mystery in Wales
Songlight
Murder as a Fine Art
Kristy and the Snobs: A Graphic Novel
Jessi's Secret Language: A Graphic Novel
Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery: A Graphic Novel
Death At The White Hart
Bantam Reacher The Stories Behind The Stories.
Murder on the Menu
Stacey's Mistake: A Graphic Novel
The Ten Teacups
Claudia and the New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye: A Graphic Novel
Dawn and the Impossible Three: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #5)
Kristy's Big Day: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #6)
Boy-Crazy Stacey: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #7)
Logan Likes Mary Anne!
Death in Ambush : A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The Small Edition


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