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Spotless
Spotless by Camilla Monk is $2.99 at Amazon! This one has been mentioned in the comments of at least two Rec Leagues: More Action Adventure Romance and He’s Always Loved Her. It’s also had a cover redesign. I like the art style, but also feel like it makes the characters look pretty young.
Island Chaptal — nerdy IT engineer by day, romance novel junkie by night — just walked into her messy New York apartment to find Mr. Right waiting for her. No, wait… Mr. Clean.
A gentleman professional killer with a bad case of OCD and zero tolerance for unsorted laundry, March isn’t there to kill her… yet. He wants the diamond her late mother stole for a sinister criminal organization. Island agrees to help him find it, facing the kind of adversaries who dismember first and ask questions later. Good thing she’s got March to show her the ropes. And the guns. And the knives.
The buttoned-up Island is soon having a blast racing from Paris to Tokyo following the clues in her mother’s will, and for the first time, she’s ready to get close to someone. But falling for a hit man may be the very definition of loving dangerously.…
Spotless marks the beginning of Island and March’s ongoing adventures.
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The Alice Network
RECOMMENDED: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is $2.99! RHG gave this one a B+:
This book has a lot of my catnip: lady spies, a dual chronology, and a host of people trying to put their lives back together after a war.
If you read and loved Code Name Verity this is a book for you.
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.
1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she’s recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she’s trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the “Queen of Spies”, who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy’s nose.
Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn’t heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth…no matter where it leads.
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The Reading List
The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams is $1.99! I just mentioned this one on yesterday’s Get Rec’d. If you like books about books and people bonding over reading, check this one out!
An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.
Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.
When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.
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Hunted
Hunted by Elizabeth Heiter is $1.99! Elyse says, “The first book in The Profiler series introduces us to Evelyn Baine, an FBI agent who hunts serial killers while trying to solve a mystery from her past. The suspense is creepy (think Criminal Minds), but Heiter adds a romantic subplot to balance it out. I love that Evelyn totally misses all the signals her hot Hostage Rescue Team member is giving her about how much he’s crushing on her.”
Terror stalks a small Virginia town.
FBI rising star, criminal profiler Evelyn Baine, knows how to think like a serial killer. But she’s never chased anyone like the Bakersville Burier, who hunts young women and displays them, half-buried, deep in the woods. As the body count climbs, Evelyn’s relentless pursuit of the killer puts her career – and her life – at risk. And the evil lurking in the Burier’s mind may be more than even she can unravel.
Terror is closer than she thinks.
The Bakersville Burier knows he’s got an FBI profiler on his trail. He knows who she is and where to find her. And he’s biding his time, because he’s planned a special punishment for Evelyn. She may have tracked other killers, but he vows to make this her last chase. This time it’s her turn to be hunted!
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– Phoebe: A Wickedly Witty Age-Gap Regency Romance (The Bellamy Sisters Book 1) by Minerva Spencer, S.M. LaViolette
– Melissa and the Vicar (Seducers 1) by SM LaViolette
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I did enjoy Spotless but FYI: this is the first of a series, and the h & H aren’t together at the end of this book. It can be read as a standalone, but if you want to find out if they manage to make it past relationship difficulties and and being hunted by sinister international criminals, you do need to keep reading. I didn’t find this a hardship as the stories are fast-paced and funny (and somewhat bananas by the end).
Does the hero of SPOTLESS genuinely have OCD, or is he just particular?
Becky Chambers’s A Psalm for the Wild-Built is $2.99.
@Star – March in SPOTLESS genuinely has OCD. I’m not an expert in the disorder, so I can’t speak to the accuracy of the portrayal. It mostly manifests itself in his need for cleanliness and order (as in, the literal way objects in his environment are organized). From the heroine’s POV, it can be seen as quirky/an amusing oddity, but it is also depicted as debilitating and heartwrenching.
SBAmanda, do you think you were the catalyst of The Reading List going on sale today?
Oh I loved the SPOTLESS series, it might be time for a reread. And I agree, it is totally bananas by the end!
@LML: I sadly do not wield that kind of power lol
My mom loaned me The Reading List and I didn’t think it would be my thing but I really enjoyed it. Two characters are healing through grief and books are used as the framework. It was a very kind, soft, and comforting book. Also made me grateful for US libraries as it appears libraries in the UK function very differently.