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Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder

by Kerryn Mayne / 5 stars

I absolutely loved Lenny Marks! Awkward, isolated, possibly neuro divergent. Struggling, trying, stumbling. She may not be for everyone, but she has so much heart!

When a letter regarding the parole hearing of her step father shows up at her work (Lenny doesn't want anyone knowing her home address) she struggles to ignore it. With it come a rush of repressed memories and feelings too strong for her to handle. She wants to keep the past locked away as she has for the last 25 years, but it's fighting to be heard.

Meanwhile, Lenny has decided it's time that she made friends. There's Ned, who she talks with at her twice weekly routine trips to the market. Her neighbor she avoids even as she tends to her garden. The two new cool prep teachers she's trying to get in with. And the rest of her colleagues that she knows the routine and habits of inside the staff room. A trivia night leads to her seeing some of these people in a new light, and slowly as her younger self confronts her current self, she struggles to keep people in their proper places.

Along the way with a stolen dog, Lenny's memories build inside her until she can't ignore them any longer. Until the truth needs to be heard and she falls under the weight of it. How can she recover, when her very structure is altered.

This incredibly moving book and the unassuming woman it centers on is just what I needed. Someone who will stick with me for a long time, I'm so glad to have met Lenny, and hope even more people will get the chance to get to know her too!

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New Blog: Stay Cool and Read

A whole week of unplanned time except for reading!  What a blessing it was!  I wanted to just read for a couple of days, but with the excruciating heat, the time lengthened.  I feel more at peace when I have time to read.  

The books I read this week filled a number of different genres from historical fiction, all the way to an espionage thriller.  Main characters ranged from a foodie writer to a sheriff to a debutante.  Of the eight books, five were by authors unknown to me.  I read about murder, mayhem, cheating, deceiving, and whirling the night away dancing.  All of them included some kind of family drama, although Lenny Marks had the wildest family drama.  

Books Read this week:

Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos - police, espionage, hacking, thriller, suspense ( 4 stars )

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder  by Kerryn Mayne - family drama, murder mystery, suspense, quirky characters, debut novel (4 stars)

Magic of Sea Glass by Jenny Hale - family drama, second chance at love, secrets, oceans (5 stars)

Winning the Covert’s Lady’s Heart by Jenny Harwell - historical romance, family drama, secrets (4 stars)

The Seaside Sisters by Pamela Kelly - family drama, second chances, foodie, Cape Cod

The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline - family drama, legal, thriller,  (4 stars)

Falling for the Marquess by Alexa Aston - historical romance, family drama, war heroes (4 stars)

Oddity of the Ton by Emily Royal - historical romance, family drama, quirky main characters (4 stars)

Elise was equally busy with books this week.  She sent in a new interview with Joseph Kanon and his new book Shanghai.  Elise said the book was a historical fiction and a crime story that is thrilling. The novel is set in 1939 when Shanghai took in a number of Jewish immigrants.

Stay cool and read.

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Review: Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne

☆☆➹⁀☆ 5 stars ☆➹⁀☆☆ Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne #mystery #Australia #fiction #debutnovel #comingsoon July 9th #KerrynMayne #StMartinsPress #MacmillanAudio #PenguinRandomHouse

☆☆➹⁀☆ 5 stars ☆➹⁀☆☆ About the Book: Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns. And…

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My Thoughts At the age of 37, Lenny does not seek a life of excitement and romance but rather one of routine and control that provides her comfort in the form of order. She is a teacher at a local school, and her nights are devoted to solitary activities such as Scrabble, TV, and arranging her The Hobbit books collection. But with the encouragement of her loving foster mother, Lenny has…

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Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne

Lenny Marks lives a simplistic life.  She goes to work via her bike.  Buys her groceries at McKnights on her way home.  She lives in a house that looks like it belongs in Hobbiton.  Lenny makes the same food each week and lives alone quietly 

Until everything changes by the receipt of a letter from the parole board.  Now she has stolen a dog, gone to trivia night at a bar, and participated in a celebration of the winter solstice.  Slowly, Lenny is beginning to take chances with life.  Slowly, she is trying to make friends.  Slowly, she is doing new things.  

The book was an unexpected read for me.  I chose it on a whim and am ever so glad.  I have enjoyed reading it. I enjoyed how Lenny began to open up and began to work through life and all the past torment.  I enjoyed how the story unfolded with various pieces of information dropping in.  Lenny’s differences made her ability to see life in black and white only added to the drama of the story.  

Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne is a good read.