Goodreads Monday: Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan

Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you have made on your current books, Goodreads Reading Challenge or anything else Goodreads related.

This week’s pick is: Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan

In this sun-dappled mystery from New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan, a risk-averse bibliophile gets in over her head when strange notes in a book draw her into a real-life investigation.

Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. She has to be. Between her high-demand job and taking care of her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Mysteries, romances, thrillers…books filled with women who are far more impulsive than she would ever dream of being. Now, forced into taking a long-overdue vacation, she finds herself on a luxurious private island where she just might have a chance to reinvent herself—for a little while, anyway. She can explore the island. Flirt shamelessly with a cute bartender. Have a vacation fling. Live like a heroine in one of her favorite novels.

Or she can curl up with a good book on the beach. Turns out reinventing yourself is easier planned than done. But when gossipy notes written in the margins of an old book turn out to be clues to the disappearance of another guest, Mia finds herself diving headfirst into a dangerous adventure. With everyone at the resort hiding secrets of their own, she’ll have to solve this real-life mystery before she becomes the next target. 

Why do I want to read it?:

Although this book has not been published yet, I already have my eye on it. It sounds like the kind of book I could curl up with and get lost in, reading it in one sitting.

This week’s reading progress:

This week I finished the Lovelight series and fell into a small slump of “what do I read now?”. It took me a few days to settle into another book after trying out a few options. I’ve since finished that book too and will begin reading The Housemaid by Freida McFadden tonight. I’ve put this series off for a long time, not wanting to get caught up in the hype, but I’m ready to read it.

2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 33/75 books

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