It seemed impossible to select just one book as my favorite read for last month. I read 7 books and all of them were fantastic. 4 of these books were part of a series and the authors did their best writing to date.
Leslie Meier's The Easter Bonnet Murder is the 35th installment of her Lucy Stone mystery series. In the past I found her books to be merely OK, mainly because I am not a huge fan of a traditional cozy. I read her latest book for a reading challenge as I couldn't find other books that fit the challenge requirements. I am so glad that I did. The Easter Bonnet Murder was a complex whodunnit and her best book to date. Alison Stuart's Evil in Emerald is the third book in her Harriet Gordon mystery series and I think it might be better even than the first, Singapore Sapphire. Ellen Crosby's Bitter Roots is her 11th wine country series entrant and, again, her best writing to date. Olympia is a sequel to graphic novel The Grand Odalisque. As with the others, it was fabulous. Peter Swanson's Nine Lives and Peng Sheperd's The Cartographers were written by new to me authors and these books were highly entertaining for me.
One author, Melissa Fu, wrote her debut novel about a Chinese family saga. Not many of the book blogs that I read like Asian fiction as much as I do. The fact that Peach Blossom Spring is a favorite of all the bloggers I read is a testament to the superb writing that Fu has executed. For this reason, Peach Blossom Spring is my best book for April 2022.
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