Book 181: Pat in the City by patricia Fields.

 Fun.

Book 180: A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

 Reread. One of the best ones.

Book 179: Beautiful People by Amanda Jennings

 This wasn't bad.

Book178: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Book 177: The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Book 176: A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths

 Book 4 of the Ruth Galloway series. Didn't remember much of this one at all and really enjoyed it.

Book 175 Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias

 Mothers at an elite public school in Miami  behaving badly. Pretty well written for kind of a silly book and touched on some important themes.

Book 174: Start Without Me by Gary Janetti

 He is so very very funny. Short book but very entertaining.

Book 173: The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths

 I'm continuing with the season of Elly! I recall not liking this book as well as the first two when I first read it but I did like it more this time. I like how she weaves in a lot of different histories of Norfolk.

Book 172: The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

 Book 2 in the Ruth Galloway series. I'm happy that I'm not remembering these books that much and it is a pleasure to read them again!

Book 171: We are Experiencing a Slight Delay by Gary Janetti

 Very funny essays about travel by a tv writer and producer married to Brad Goreski. 

Book 170: The Understudy by Morgan Richter

 I really liked the first half of this book--All About Eve but set in the world of an experimental opera. The second half was a completely different book--solving a murder mystery of one of the opera performers. It just wasn't that interesting during the second half. 3 1/2 stars rounded up.

Book 169: Darkly by Marissa Pessle

 I don't enjoy her YA books as much as I enjoy her other ones.

Book 168: The In Crowd

 I liked this book--the second book in the Caius Beauchamp detective series. 

Book 167: The Crossing Place by Elly Griffiths

 I'm re-reading the Ruth Galloway series, in order of course, and this is book 1. It is so good--we meet all the characters who are with us through the whole series, and a lot of Nelson and Cathbad's relationship is established in this book. It's just great.

Note: I skipped 10 places in May, so this number is the correct number. I'm too lazy to go correct them all.

Book 176: The Other Half by Charlotte Vassel

 I liked this book a lot--it features a London detective named Caius Beauchamp who has to investigate a murder among the landed gentry (which he isn't). Lots of good characters. This is the first in a series and I'm glad about that!

Book 175: Mendocino and Other Stories by Ann Packer

 One of my favorite books of all time is "The Dive from Claussen's Pier" by Ann Packer. I've liked her other novels too. This collection of short stories is ok. Like many short stories I read, the stories seem able to go on for many more pages but they just....end.  So this book is fine but not great.

Book 174: Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore

 Magician Violet has been missing for ten years. Is she dead, or somewhere else? A podcast host and her sister try to find the truth. I liked the format of this book (podcast transcripts, letters, stuff like that) but the story was ridiculous, and not in a good way.

Book 173: There is No Ethan by Anna Akbari

 This is a great book. It's about how three women found the person who was 'catfishing' them on line. It's a true story, and you'll wonder how three theoretically smart women spent two years interacting with Ethan, who they never met in person. It's fascinating and so well written. 

Book 172: Art Heist: 50 Artworks you will never see again by Susie Hodge

 Imagine you were in your Intro to Art History Class and the day's lecture was on artworks that have been stolen. This book is pretty much what that class would be. Photo of a stolen artwork, paragraph on when it was stolen and where the artwork might be now. Spoiler alert: it's either destroyed or being held as collateral in a drug deal. Could have been a fascinating book, it wasn't.