Quick quick ! Holiday reads

Still Life by Sarah Winman set in London and Florence.

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Safak. Set in London and Cypress

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

Saving Missy by Beth Morrey

Where the Crawdads Sing by Daisy Edgar Jones

Miss Garnets Angels by Salley Vickers

The Girl with the Pearl Earring and
The Last Runaway by Tracey Chevalier
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency and a lot of follow up books by Alexander McCall Smith

Hope you enjoy trying out some or all of these books

Hi Lucca
Did you read The Carer?
Indeed any Deborah Moggarch.
I particularly like her Buffy (he’s a lugubrious ageing actor) books, start with The Ex-Wives.

Enjoy your break!

Salley Vickers The Gardener, gentle, beautifully written, undemanding.
Ellie Griffiths, books about an archaeologist in Norfolk who is frequently involved in unravelling local deaths, ancient and modern.

I have just read Richard Coles debut novel Murder at Evensong, and enjoyed its description of parish life.

The Ellie Griffiths Max Mephisto ‘whodunnits’ are also very good.

Another vote for Saving Missy.

Rebecca Tope's Cotswold and Lake District mysteries.

Another Salley Vickers one - Mr Golightly’s Holiday.

I’ve read a lot of these ! Plus a lot seem tobe about the elderly etc? A bit doom and gloom maybe ?
Any more ?!

I'm with Merlotgran. Saving Missy, a lovely book. Susie Steiner's Manon Bradshaw crime novels are a good read.

How to Kill Your Family Bella Mackie dark humour loved this book when I read it on holiday

The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett

Small Pleasures Claire Chambers

The Appeal Janice Hallett

GranyGravy, The Times recently stated that Richard Coles book "Murder at Evensong" is far better than the overrated ubiquitous Osman's cosy crime offerings may give that one a go myself.

Learning to Swim also by Clare Chambers. I'd recommend all of hers.

All my Mothers.

Any non crime offerings? Sorry to be picky… I’ve read a lot of these eg salley vickers tracey chevalier ec and liked them.

Jennifer Scoullar books about Outback Australia?

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. Excellent read, great characters and plot twists.

Agree Terribull , How to Kill Your Family.
But it’s a numerous crime with a great twist at the end.

Humorous! But also ‘ numerous’!

Have you read ‘A thousand splendid suns’ by Khaled Hosseini? Loved this book. He also wrote ‘The Kite Runner’ and although I’ve read both, I preferred the former.

All the light we cannot see, Anthony Doerr
The mermaid of black conch, Monique Roffey
The giver of stars, Jo Jo Moyes
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett
Anything by Kate Atkinson, although the Jackson Brady series are crime (sort of)

Toast: the story of a boy's hunger by Nigel Slater. Food nostalgia. Very funny in places
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. Worth re-reading. A real page turner
The Sealwoman's Gift, by Sally Magnusson. Very well written.

J52

Agree Terribull , How to Kill Your Family.
But it’s a numerous crime with a great twist at the end.

Yes it's pretty tongue in cheek crime and the description of the family she sets out to kill presided over by a Philip Green (esque) head honcho gives it a great humorous edge imo.

Ditto to any by Clare Chambers. I’m going to download ‘Back Trouble’ on to my Kindle. Read it years ago but IIRC passed the ‘proper’ book to a sister with very similar tastes.

Another I’ve loved and passed on to same sister is Two Caravans, by Marina Lewycka - about an assortment of illegal-immigrant (mostly trafficked IIRC) strawberry pickers. There’s a wonderful canine character, too, but I won’t go into any ‘spoiling’ detail.

The Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre.

Just read and thoroughly enjoyed 'Diplomatic Baggage' by Brigid Keenan. She was a diplomat's wife and her book is about the ups and downs of life in their various postings. She's a very good writer and obviously has a great sense of humour. Strongly recommended.