Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Foreign Intrigue Book Club 2018

Foreign Intrigue Book Club
face-to-face (details)
Books, Inc. Laurel Village

Do you like to travel? Experience a country through the eyes of a local? Try the food of another country?

I tried this back in October and got hooked as it includes some much needed arm-chair traveling.

2017

October pick:

Murder Under the Bridge:
A Palestine Mystery

by Kate Jessica Raphael
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

2018

January pick:

Whitefly
by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
translated by Jonathan Smolin
-Mystery, Africa, Morocco
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

February pick:

The Dry
by Jane Harper
-Mystery, Australia
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5

March pick:

The Neruda Case
by Roberto Ampuero
-Mystery, Historical, Chile
Amazon | Goodreads | my review: DNF

April pick:

Death Going Down
by María Angélica Bosco
translated by Lucy Greaves
-Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

May pick:

Needle In A Haystack
by Ernesto Mallo
-Mystery, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

June pick:

Hotel Brasil
by Frei Betto, Jethro Soutar
-Mystery, Argentina, Brazil
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

July pick:

Another Sun
by Timothy Williams
-Mystery, Caribbean, Guadalupe
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

August pick:

Havana Lunar
by Robert Arellano
-Mystery, Cuba, Havana
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

September pick:

Death On Demand
by Paul Thomas
-Mystery, New Zealand
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5

October pick:

Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness
by David Casarett
-Mystery, Cozy, Thailand
Goodreads | my review: tba

November pick:

Ghost Month
(A Taipei Night Market #1)
by Ed Lin
-Mystery, China | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4

December & January pick:

Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
-Mystery, Thriller, Japan
Amazon | Goodreads
my review | my rating: 4
 
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