Death on Board, by Pauline Rowson

Look at that cover. Of course I had to check out the blurb, and from there to requesting an ARC it was but a very short step.

Beware: phonetic spelling to indicate accents; PTSD, copaganda; miscarriages; death of an infant; depression; mental health issues; suicide on page; sexual coercion/rape; xenophobia; antisemitism.

Puzzles Can Be Deadly, by David S. Pederson

A historical quozy mystery! (see footnote ¹) The cover and title caught my eye, because I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, and the blurb, as it so often does, clinched it, so I requested and received an ARC.

Beware: death of a child; miscarriages; stillbirth; dementia; mental health issues; elder neglect/abuse; homophobia; sexual abuse/rape; botched back alley abortion.

Rock Wedding, by Nalini Singh

When at first you don’t succeed, you slam your head against a wall repeatedly (aka, my second try at SuperWendy’s May TBR Challenge: reading something by an author I had given up on–spoiler: it worked surprisingly well!); this ARC has been sitting unread in my kindle since mid-2016.

Beware: swearing; explicit sex on page; alcoholism; drug addiction; second chance; death of a child (sibling); death of parents; cancer; miscarriage; stillbirth; emotional abuse/manipulation; intimate partner violence; relentless heteronormativity.

Wealth, greed, bodily autonomy, control.

First, you need to go read this post by Lori Green.

Second, I hope if you are a straight cis man and a) none of what follows applies to you, you will not take it personally; or b) some of what follows touches a nerve, that you sit with the discomfort for a bit and examine why that is.

CW: mention of suicide both there and in this post; mention of miscarriage here; rape; depression.