I'm down to only three obligated reads for this month. I'm thrilled about that because that means I can pick up whatever I randomly decide I want to read. My in person book club is reading Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews this month which I've read twice already—most recently last year with my husband—so I'm not going to read that one again, even though I love it.
Reading with The Mystery Book Club-
One Split Second (Tracy Crosswhite #12) by Robert Dugoni
Detective Tracy Crosswhite is assigned to defend an old friend. Sheriff Jenny Almond has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting an unarmed veteran on a stormy night of confusion, paranoia, and split-second choices. Tracy is certain there’s more to the story of Anthony Alvarez’s killing—and her investigation draws her back to a cold case that still haunts the community.
More than forty years ago, Alvarez was the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of a teenage babysitter. The lead investigator, Jenny’s late father Buzz Almond, always believed Alvarez had been framed. Decades later, his suspicions of a conspiracy are driving Tracy to find answers. Digging deeper into both the past and the present, she discovers a complex web of sinister motives and long-buried secrets, unearthed one by one.
As a decades-old mystery casts its dark shadow on a small town, only the truth will finally set the innocent free.
Dead Law (Cass Leary #11) by Robin James
When sorting through her ailing grandmother's papers, Cass's latest client finds an unclaimed check worth millions. There's no explanation as to what the money was for or why the old woman never cashed it. But this newfound windfall may be more curse than blessing as Cass digs deeper into the source of the funds. The answer could set her client up for life or expose dangerous family secrets some might kill to keep hidden.
Pick it for me Book-
A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
Truyan Saigas didn't choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it’s up to her to support her mother and two younger sisters. A gifted art forger, Tru has the unique ability to paint the future, but even such magic is not enough to put her family back together again, or stave off the gangsters demanding payment in blood for her mother’s gambling debts.
Left with few options, Tru agrees to a marriage contract with a mysterious dragon lord. He offers a fresh start for her mother and sisters and elusive answers about her father's disappearance, but in exchange, she must join him in his desolate undersea palace. And she must assist him in a plot to infiltrate the tyrannical Dragon King's inner circle, painting a future so treasonous, it could upend both the mortal and immortal realms. . . .
