ShortBookandScribes February 2025 Reads, Book Post and Stats
Happy March! Spring really seems to have sprung over the last few days making everything look dusty and shabby. I suppose that’s where spring cleaning comes from.
Did you watch anything good on the box last month? My watch of the month has to be Virdee, based on a book by A A Dhand. It’s a hard-hitting series about DCI Harry Virdee, turf and drug wars, culture battles and some crimes that seem very personal to Harry. I was totally hooked.
I read seven books in February which makes sense given that it’s a shorter month and I usually manage eight. Here they are:
The Breakfast Gig by Gerard Nugent
This book returns to Hope Street from Nugent’s first book, Let in the Light and is a heart-warming story of community, family and friendship.
The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Book two of the Morland Dynasty books that I am loving. This one is set around the time of Henry VIII and his many wives.
Making a Killing by Cara Hunter
I always love the DCI Adam Fawley books and this is book seven in the series. It picks up the story from book one of missing child, Daisy Mason.
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
The cold cases that Ali investigates are not just cold, they’re frozen. She goes back to Victorian times to find out if an MP’s ancestor was really a murderer.
Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton
The titular painting by Vermeer hangs in a museum. The story is told from the point of view of the subject, both at the time of the painting and now, and also a man who goes everyday to the museum to gaze at it.
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
An achingly exquisite story of first love, second chances and grief. Nobody writes a tragic love story like this author.
The Paris Dancer by Nicola Rayner
A dual timeline story in which Mim in 2012 travels to New York to go through her late aunt’s papers. In 1938 Esther meets Annie, the dancer of the title, at a very dangerous time to be Jewish.
Book post received this month with thanks to the named publishers and authors:
- The Lost Passenger by Frances Quinn (pre-order from Fox Lane Books)
- The Eights by Joanna Miller (sent for review by Penguin Figtree)
- A Mother’s Hope by Maggie Mason (sent for review by Sphere)
- Baby Teeth by Celia Silvani (sent for review by Orion)
- Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull (giveaway prize along with a copy for a reading buddy)
- Six Poppies by Lisa Carter (sent for review by the author)
- Bea’s Book Wagon by Julie Hawarth, Best Summer Ever by Heidi Swain and One in a Million by Beverley Kendall (sent by Sara-Jade at Books & the City/Simon & Schuster)
- The Grapevine by Kate Kemp (sent for review by Phoenix Books)
- Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread by Lynn Knight (sent for review by Bantam Books)
- The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry (sent for review by Penguin Viking)
- The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex (sent for review by Picador)
- Watch Me Watch You by Lily Samson (sent for review by Century)
- Births, Deaths and Marriages by Laura Barnett (sent for review by Doubleday)
Finally, my Storygraph stats for February:
What was your favourite February book?
