A truly bumper month of acquisitions. But the good news – if such there can be – is that I have read all the Elly Griffiths at this point, along with the Edmund Crispin so they’re not actually on the to-read pile any more, they’re now in search of a place on the actual shelves. And of course given that I own all of the series except the first one in paperback there is a non zero chance that my mania for sets (preferably matching) will lead me to acquire The Crossing Places in paperback too so I have the set. I will try and resist. The Julia Buckley happened to be in the Picadilly Waterstones when I was in there buying one of the Ruth Galloways and although it’s not the next one in the series I haven’t read, it’s so rare to spot these in a shop I bought it anyway.
The Ann Granger is the first Mitchell and Markby which I have read but don’t own. Its the same edition that I read it in when a very dear friend lent me her whole set to me by post nearly a decade ago. She very sadly died last summer – but it would have been her birthday this week so when I saw this in the National Trust bookshop at the weekend it seemed like a sign to acquire it and reread. And then of course I got distracted by the Corinna Chapman re-read so it hasn’t happened – yet. And the other two were also purchased at the same time – and were total impulse buys. I’ve never come across them before but they’re books two and five in a twenty year old cozy crime series so I thought I’d snaffle them as they were only £1 each. I’ll either like them or I won’t and I was supporting a good cause!
Have a great Saturday.
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
That’s definitely a bumper haul of crime novels.
Restraint and self control was not my friend this month!