July was another wonderful but busy month for me, including a trip that’s been a goal for years! This month I read 29 books including all of my TBR. You can check out my thoughts on many of these in my Recent Reads recaps: #121 and #122

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Reviews:

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• Difficult Girls, A Crime Through Time & A Deadly Night at the Theatre
• Let The Bad Times Roll, The Hideaway & The Serial Killer’s Party 
• The Babysitter Lives, The Library at Hellebore & Silvercloak
•  Venus Fly Trap, A Grave Inheritance & Immortal Consequences
• Circle of Liars
• One Yellow Eye
• The Goldens

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Haul:

Thank you to Penguin Children’s and Nina Douglas for sending me ARCs of A Beautiful Evil by Bea Fitzgerald and When We Were Monsters by Jennifer Niven. Also, thank you to Simon YA and Nina again for my wonderful proof package for The Rebel and the Rose by Catherine Doyle.

Olivia-Savannah at Tor UK kindly sent me an ARC of Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake, while Hachette Children’s surprised me with a finished copy of How The Other Half Die by P. C. Roscoe. My pre-order for Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson arrived too.

I went to Old Peculiar Theakston Crime Writing Festival for the first time and came home with a suitcase full of books! It was such a fantastic event and I will definitely be returning next year. There I picked up, with thanks to Viking Books, HarperCollins, Bantam Books, Viper Books and Pan Macmillan:

• Murder in Harrogate
• The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott
• Five by Ilona Bannister
• In The Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan
• A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford
• The Killer Question by Janice Hallett
• The Drowning Place by Sarah Hilary
• Vivian Dies Again by C. E. Hulse
• She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena
• To Love a Liar by L. V. Matthews
• Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray
• A Sociopath’s Guide To A Successful Marriage by M. K. Oliver
• The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
• How To Get Away With Murder by Rebecca Philipson
• Holmes & Mortiarty by Gareth Rubin
• A Case of Life and Limb by Sally Smith
• Esther Is Now Following You by Tanya Sweeney

I also won a proof of Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan which arrived with a wonderful plushie of Bastard the Bulldog.

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Netgalley:

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• Bury Your Friends by Benjamin Dean
• The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah
• Empty Heaven by Freddie Kölsch
• Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper
• Queen of Faces by Petra Lord
• I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
• The Vanishing Act by Jo Jakeman
• The Forsaken and the Fated by Camilla Raines
• An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole
• The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
• Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington
• We Three Witches by Rosie Talbot