I have to say, I enjoyed this book and its quirky characters. Perhaps a little kooky and it is a bit easy to predict the final outcome, but thoroughly enjoyable along the way. Good summer read.

Reading this for my Georgette Heyer Book club - actually a re-read of this which I first ready many years ago. We started chronologically with the Black Moth but immediately went sideways into the books which reworked and referenced plot and character from the Black Moth. Still love Heyer's meticulous research and writing, but at least of her tropes in this and the prequel, These Old Shades, are disturbing, even based as they are on the use of the historically accurate assumptions and mores of the times.

Cozy mystery where female sleuth is a female reporter with a group of friends on a student trip to england a murder takes place reminiscent of an agatha christie plot

While I really like Cannell’s books, I did not love this one. This is, however, a perfect example of a false narrator, and the ending is what make the story OK. A married man spies a beautiful woman, also married, across a pool and falls madly in love with her. How far will he go to win her over?

So here is a perfect example of why I try really hard not to give up on a book once I start it. The beginning is filled with a description of so many odd named people and one line of their back story that I almost put this down for good. But I hung in there and was rewarded. It’s really a touching tale of life in a community in Brooklyn in 1969 and all the trouble and beauty that went with it. It was a time when everyone knew everyone and taking care of one another was everything. There are a couple of just very silly parts, but overall the writing is beautiful and inspired. Hang in there; it’s worth it!

Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of biographies for the simple reason that not everything in a person’s life will be interesting,,,or so I thought until I read this book. Just about every minute of this book kept me engaged and wondering what would happen next. And to say that it is about an immigrant from Yemen who is working as a doorman and want to start a business importing coffee from Yemen doesn’t do it justice. It is the amazing story of a young man committed to improving the life of coffee farmers in his home country and of someone who will literally do anything to accomplish that. Excellent read!

Read out of order of series, but still enjoyable

Another winner from BW!

Very well written though sometimes uncomfortable to read . Almost a coming of age story of a young black woman , finding her ground , career and adult life - short and sweet with a bit sour mixed in .

I loved this booked! I was always so intimidated to start it but once I started I couldn’t put it down. What a love story!