Megan's Library: July Edition

Okay babes, it’s time to reopen the library! I’ve rounded up my favorites from my July reading list just for you - take a peek!

How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin

If you’re looking for a cute mystery series with quirky characters that keep you coming back for more, this book is for you! Nora Blackbird is juggling a falling apart family farm (complete with mansion), all types of family drama and her first job ever: society reporter, plus a sexy mobster and his car lot moving in next door... and that’s before she stumbles over a dead body! She has to use all her smarts and her society connections to try to solve the murder, all while dressed in her grandmother’s vintage couture. It’s the first in the series, and one that I come back to time and time again!

It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I was in a very cute beach read mood for most of the month, and this book fits right in! Another first of a series, this one centres on a fictional football team that gets unexpectedly inherited by the black sheep bimbo daughter of the owner, or at least that’s how people see Phoebe when the book starts! She gets handed a football team and guardianship of her teenage sister, and it’s a toss-up which is more of a handful for her. And that’s not even counting the sparks that fly with the head coach... This book is entertaining and heartwarming and you can’t help but root for her as she does her best to navigate the challenges in her path! It’s a perfect read for when you need something to make you smile, and the rest of the Chicago Stars series does the same!

Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin

I have a confession to make: I got 100 pages into the third book of the series that this is the first in... But when I realized it was even more exciting, because I had more of the characters to experience! Plus it was helpful in terms of understanding the background of the events that had started to unfold in the third one. Kitty Peck works as a seamstress in clubs in the London Underworld controlled by Lady Ginger, when some of the dancing girls start going missing, and Lady Ginger selects her to gather information to find the culprit - she gets thrown in the deep end, but rises to the occasion (literally)! This was one of those judging a book series by its cover that really paid off: I immediately read the first three books back to back, and am waiting very impatiently for the fourth and final book to be released! If you’re looking for a mystery with some edge and historical flair, and characters that really come to life, you’ll love this series!

Star Nomad by Lindsay Buroker

Okay babes, where are my Firefly/Serenity fans at? Because if you’re like Rachel and I and you miss Firefly desperately, this may help to fill the void! Now that the war is over and the Empire has fallen to the Alliance, former Alliance pilot Alisa Marchenko is now trying to make it back home to her daughter - all that stands in her way is stealing back her family ship from a junkyard from a Empire cyborg soldier... and making it back across the galaxy of course. She quickly picks up a motley crew all with their own secrets, and they get drawn into a series of quests to save themselves, her daughter, the prince, and the galaxy: no sweat right? Seriously if the space cowboy/sci-fi genre is your thing, definitely check this one out!

The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg

I’m a huge Sherlock Holmes fan - I’ve even gone to visit 221B Baker St when I was in London a few years ago, so when I stumbled on this book, I was intrigued but skeptical. There are so many interpretations of the Sherlock Holmes story, but very few that involve Sherlock Holmes having a child, and I have to say this book did a great job of it! It captured the feeling of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and had the same kind of detail-oriented mystery, so I was a happy girl! If you’re a fan of the classic Sherlock mysteries, and don’t mind stepping outside of the classic canon, or if you’re a fan of historical mysteries, you’ll enjoy this one!

Happy reading babes!

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