🌟Jaffareadstoo 12 in 12 ~ 2024🌟

 As the end of my reading year approaches

Here are my much anticipated 12 in 12

📖 Twelve authors who were new to me:

1. Alice McIlroy - The Glass Woman
2. Sally Keeble - Freeborn Girls
3. A.K.Blakemore - The Glutton
4. Joanna Tovey - The Little Penguin Bookshop
5. Jessica Moor - Hold Back the Night
6. Cara Reinhard - The Wife at the Window
7. Natasha Sammons - Before She Fell
8. G.D.Wright - After the Storm
9. Karen King - The Girl Next Door
10. Nicole Swengley - The Portrait Girl
11. Henry Porter - The Enigma Girl
12. Louise Davidson - The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond

📖 Twelve authors I have read before:

1. Nancy Revell - The Widow’s Choice
2. Lesley Pearse - The Long and Winding Road
3. Alison Morton - EXSILIUM 
4. Rosie  Clarke - Dangerous Times in Dressmaker’s Alley
5. Sarah Mallory - Wed in Haste to the Duke
6. Michael E Wills - Trouble
7. Jo Bartlett - A Found Family at the Cornish Country Hospital 
8. Ava Glass - The Trap
9. Laura Wilkinson - That Night in New York
10. A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal - Darcy McGuire
11. Daisy O’Shea - The Irish Family Secret
12. Julie Caplin - A Little Place in Prague

📖 Twelve books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. The Widows Choice - Nancy Revell
2. The Daughters of Mersey Square - Pam Howes
3. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
4. The Teashop Girls at War - Elaine Everest 
5. The Split - S E Lynes
6. The Ghost of Seagull Cottage - Anne Allen
7. You, Me Her - Sue Watson
8. The Butterfly Garden - Rachel Burton
9. The Figurine - Victoria Hislop
10. Legacy of the Runes - Christina Courtenay
11. The  Royal Rebel - Elizabeth Chadwick 
12. The Viscount and the Thief - Emma Orchard 

🎧Twelve Audio Books I have enjoyed listening to:

1. The Dark Tide - Simon McCleave
2. The Perfumist of Paris - Alka Joshi
3. Men I’ve Loved Before - Adele Parks
4. The Outcast Dead - Ellie Griffiths
5. In Too Deep - Simon McCleave
6. The Ghost Fields - Ellie Griffiths
7. The Child - Fiona Barton
8. The Lady in Blue - Ellie Griffiths 
9. The Blackbird Oracle - Deborah Harkness 
10. The Dream Weavers - Barbara Erskine
11. Tansy Bloom, Monster Hunter - L J Weller
12. The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths 

📖 Twelve books with covers I particularly liked:

1. Shadows in the Ashes - Christina Courtenay
2. The Sleeping Beauties - Lucy Ashe
3. A New Dawn at Owl’s Lodge - Jessica Redland
4. The House in the Water - Victoria Darke
5. Retreat From Nuala - Harriet Steel
6. The House of the Witch - Clare Marchant
7. Uncle Digit and the Truth about Magic - Jeremy Hullah
8. The Hollywood Governess Alexandra Weston
9. The Secret Orchard - Sharon Gosling
10. Twenty Poems about Classrooms - Candlestick Press
11. The Black Loch - Peter May
12. A Winter Dictionary - Paul Anthony Jones

📖 Twelve books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. A Scandalous Match - Jane Dunn 
2. The King’s Witch - Tracy Borman
3. The Human Kind - Alexander Baron
4. The Persephone Code - Julia Goulding
5. Mary I: Queen of Sorrows - Alison Weir
6. The King’s Mother - Annie Garthwaite
7. The King’s Messenger - Susanna Kearsley
8. Diva - Daisy Goodwin
9. The Last Bookshop in Prague - Helen Parusel
10. The Island Girls - Rachel Sweasey
11. The Last Princess - Ellen Alpsten
12. Wanton Troopers - Lindsey Erith

📖 Twelve books that led me into a life of crime:

1. Hangman Island - Kate Rhodes 
2. The Mistress- Valerie Keogh 
3. Nowhere to Hide - Kerri Beevis
4. The Trial - Jo Spain
5. The Drowning Isle - Simon McGleave
6. The Life Sentence - Jackie Kabler
7. Home is where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose
8. Whispers of the Dead - Lin Anderson 
9. Talking to Strangers - Fiona Barton
10. One Bad Apple - Jo Jakeman
11. Disturbing the Bones - Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers
12. The Wives - Valerie Keogh

📖 Twelve Featured Books of the Month

1. The Woman on the Ledge - Ruth Mancini
2. What We Did in the Storm - Tina Baker
3. The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
4. The Household - Stacy Halls 
5. The Lost Memories - Lorna Cook
6. The Theatre of Glass and Shadows - Anne Corlett
7. The Burial Plot - Elizabeth Macneal
8. A Little Trickerie - Rosanna Pike
9. Scandalous Women - Gill Paul
10. The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins
11. Place of Tides - James Rebanks
12. A Secret Photographs - Jacquie Boese

📖 Twelve Feel-Good Books : 

1. Ten Poems about Hats - Candlestick Press
2. A Breath of Fresh Air - Jessica Redland 
3. The Happiest Ever After - Milly Johnson
4. A Duke of One’s Own - Emma Orchard
5. Finding Friends at the Cornish Hospital - Jo Bartlett
6. Under A Summer Skye - Sue Moorcroft 
7. Thank you, Next - Kathryn Freeman
8. Love at First Sight - Jessica Gilmore
9. Lessons in Love at the Cornish Country Hospital - Jo Bartlett
10. All Creatures Great and Small TV Tie-In 
11. A Skye Full of Stars - Sue Moorcroft 
12. A Christmas Wish on Arran - Ellie Henderson

📖 Twelve Must Read Books :

1. Secrets of Cresswell Hall - Victoria Darke
2. What We Thought We Knew - Claire Dyer 
3. The Memory of Us - Dani Atkins
4. The Porcelain Moon - Janie Chang
5. The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
6. The Next Mrs Parrish - Liv Constantin
7. The Gathering - C J Tudor
8. We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker
9. Love and Other Lost Things - Melissa Weisner
10. True Love - Paddy Crewe
11. The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
12. The Last Bookshop in Prague - Helen Parusel

📖 Twelve books I am looking forward to reading in 2025: 

1. Famous Last Words - Gillian McAllister
2. The Queen of Fives - Alex Hay
3. The Players  - Minette Walters
4. Six Poppies -  Lisa Carter
5. The Garden - Nick Newman
6. The Weyward Duke - Katrina Kendrick
7. Nesting - Roisin O’Donnell
8. The Wolf Tree - Laura McCluskey
9. Confessions - Catherine Airey
10. Water Moon. - Samantha Sotto Yambao
11. The Homemade God- Rachel Joyce 
12. The Eights - Joanna Miller

To all the blog readers and book bloggers who support Jaffareadstoo

To all these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me and to the publishers who continue to support Jaffareadstoo.

Your books have taken me on the most wonderful armchair adventures 😊

Come back on the 31st December when I reveal my favourites in Reads of the Year 2024.