It's Monday! What Are You Reading #698, October 21st

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #697
Teaser Tuesday #705
WWW Wednesday #705
WOW #701
Will the Time Come #698
Third Sentence Thursday #688
Random Reads #674
First Lines Friday #701
Book Blogger Hop #367

Monthly ARC's Update 93
The Reward Challenge Update #683
Wheel of TBR #230
How Well I Stuck to It #535
Wrote that Review Update #532

Week 42 Reviews:
Pressed Into Service

Tell Me What Really Happened

Tea You at the Altar

A Grim and Sunken Vow

Halloween for Six

My Heart is a Chainsaw

Don't Fear the Reaper

Januaries 

First Lie Wins

A Very Bad Thing

When the Moon Hatched

My Best Friend's Exorcism

The Last Final Girl

Before the Fall: Departure

Before the Fall: Arrival

All Fall Down

What You Made Me Do

The Haunting

The Demon Catchers of Milan 

Off the Trail

Lying in the Deep

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Update 54

Becca's Spookoplathon: 

Update 15

Update 16

Update 17

Update 18

Update 19

Update 20

Update 21

Update 22

Update 23

Update 24

Random:

Kathryn Foxfield Author Page

Stephen Graham Jones Author Page

Diana Urban Author Page

Natasha Preston Author Page

Benjamin Stevenson Author Page

OK, so I got 48 posts in 7 days, so it was a decent week, but a hard personal week, because Friday was the 1 year anniversary of putting Dobby down, so that hurt. But he wasn't in pain longer. But anyways, I'm glad that's done. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret!

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, "deviously good fun" (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.

My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional masters of the art of misdirection.

THE MAGICIAN

THE ASSISTANT

THE EXECUTIVE

THE HYPNOTIST

THE IDENTICAL TWIN

THE COUNSELLOR

 THE TECH

My clues are even more A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it's Christmas.

If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.

After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn't it?