The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "If it's not your style, I see no reason not to mention that, either. Someone else might like the style described."

If I don't like a book, then I still write a review - mainly to remind myself not to go back there and the reasons why.

Yup.

Just finished Cuckoo's Calling and loved it which surprised me since the last book I read by JK Rowling took me a long time to get into and I almost gave up. I did lose track of a couple characters a couple times and had to find out how they fit.

Just starting , always enjoy his books, fast entertaining reads

Malina wrote: "Just starting , always enjoy his books, fast entertaining reads"

I liked the second one even better than the first!

I just finished reading The Seventh Victim . I gave it 4 stars. Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Struggling through DEAD OR ALIVE by the late Tom Clancy. The military/spy info is great but the story is weak.

Just finished and really enjoyed Inferno by Dan Brown. For me it's his best yet!

I finished The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli. The main carrier is Terrier Rand whose family are "gentleman" thieves - no violence. So when Terry's brother Collie goes on a murder spree Terry leaves town. Five years later, just before his execution, Collie asks to see Terry and tells him that he's guilty of all but one of the murders, a young teenage girl. He asks Terry to investigate. Rather than being a straight murder mystery, however, the book is more an exploration of how a devastating act affects the other people in your life. The characters are well-drawn and interesting. Good book.

Yesterday I read and finished Opal Fire - Barbra Annino.

I've got two mysteries on the go, one Rebus, Dead Souls and one Henrie O, Death in Paradise.

FinishedPago Pago Tango . I gave it 4 stars-an interesting mix of a mystery and cultural information and commentary, by John Enright who lived there for 26 years. Here is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished David Baldacci's Camel Club series (again). It's like an old friend I can visit when I need a comfortable distraction from life. I'm in the market for a fun ghost story - nothing too scary. The type that is perfect for a cold or rainy weekend. I love a little chill up my spine but I don't care for gore. If an old mansion is involved . . well . . that's even better. Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

Lisa wrote: "I just finished David Baldacci's Camel Club series (again). It's like an old friend I can visit when I need a comfortable distraction from life. I'm in the market for a fun ghost story - nothing to..." Try Peter Straub's Shadowlands...

Sorry I didn't see the ghost story, Shadowlands is more the horror version of Harry Potter, the best Ghost story I ever read was The Shining, but it's also one of the scariest books I've ever read...

Lisa wrote: "I just finished David Baldacci's Camel Club series (again). It's like an old friend I can visit when I need a comfortable distraction from life. I'm in the market for a fun ghost story - nothing to..."

Try
The Haunting of Hill House or

Ghost Story

Lisa wrote: "I just finished David Baldacci's Camel Club series (again). It's like an old friend I can visit when I need a comfortable distraction from life. I'm in the market for a fun ghost story - nothing to..."

I loved Hell House by Richard Matheson. It's not funny, though, I thought it was quite scary. I would say it's old-fashioned scary without the blood.

Ctgt wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I just finished David Baldacci's Camel Club series (again). It's like an old friend I can visit when I need a comfortable distraction from life. I'm in the market for a fun ghost story..."

Ghost Story is my second favorite scary book.

Reading Death of a Nightingale. I really enjoy this series.

Finished Gone Girl and really enjoyed it.

Listening to SOMETHING ABOUT YOU by Julie James.

Hi

Just read and really enjoyed a new author for me in Simon Kernick and his novel Payback.

Four stars for this exciting, tense and gripping book.

regards

Sean

Just finished Call for the Dead, it surprised me, mainly because I pretty much understood most of it!!! I quite like George Smiley, very interesting character, I don't normally go for Spy novels.

I just finished . It was ok. I am over the whole two men thing.

S Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow. My first book by this author.

Just finishe Second Honeymoon, a quick entertaining read like most of Patterson's books

Just finished Ruth Rendell's book, 13 Steps Down. It was my fist by this author, and will probably be awhile before I read another. I found it too slow paced for me. I will be reading The Double, by George Pelecanos (Spero Lucas#2).

I'm reading A Wanted Man by Lee Child. Not loving it a 180 pages in. :/ Hope it gets better!! I usually love the Reacher books...

Started which I got as a free download and was going along okay until I hit one of my personal 'pet peeves' ...

I'm definitely set in my ways in some things ... lifetime horsewoman and the author had two characters going for a ride on a Shire and a Percheron ... both of which are draft breeds. Something that most readers wouldn't even be aware of but for me, I'm done.

Just finished M. A. Comley's book 7 in the Justice Series, Virtual Justice. The best yet. Loved it from page one all the way to the last page.

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Just starting Keeping the Dead by Tess Gerritsen.

Sharon wrote: "Started which I got as a free download and was going along okay until I hit one of my personal 'pet peeves' ...

I'm definitely set in my ways in some things ... life..."


See it is that kind of thing that totally ruins a book for me. Fact checking so very important.

I hate it when that happens.

Gave up on the free downloads temporarily, hit a longer than usual series of DNFs so I went to my list of "to buy when I need something I know will be readable" books.

More spy/thriller than mystery and just fun. Second book in the series and fortunately for my disposition, so far so good. Only complaint I have so far is that there has not been enough scenes with a new character ... a sweet little grandmother type who runs a sex store and a 900-sex telephone line! Wonderful characters.

Just starting The Golem and the Jinni

Malina wrote: "Just starting The Golem and the Jinni"

Ooooh! I've got that on the shelf and I'm a smidge intimidated.

Looking forward to reading what you think!

Michele wrote: "S Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow. My first book by this author."

I read Dawn Patrol also and really liked it. I should read more of his books.

Pcdoctorswr wrote: "Just finished Ruth Rendell's book, 13 Steps Down. It was my fist by this author, and will probably be awhile before I read another. I found it too slow paced for me. I will be reading The Double, b..."

I also read I like the character of Speros Lucas as he is au courant. I am going to read Pelecanos' new book, The Double. He
is in my opinion a very good author.

Over the weekend I finished Hand for a Hand and Cast A Blue Shadow both very interesting but very different. Hand for Hand is a rather intense "Scottish noir" book while Cast a Blue Shadow is set among the Amish in Ohio.

As a change of pace I just started Get Real.

Renee wrote: "Malina wrote: "Just starting The Golem and the Jinni"

Ooooh! I've got that on the shelf and I'm a smidge intimidated.

Looking forward to reading what you think!"

So far I'm loving it, it's very different, but, I just started.

I'm currently reading Cross & Burn by Val McDermid
it was actually slow going at the beginning, I was having a hard time getting interested, but then it took a turn, and I could barely stop reading so I could actually go to sleep last night. I can't wait to see how it finishes.

Did some reading last week just didnt come on here alot to post what i read. Here is what i read

And When She Was Good It was okay but not my fav from Laura

Gone Girl Really liked this book. I am really enjoying Gillian Flynn books

Dirty Martini Really enjoy this series!

Now I am started on
The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts
The Last Kiss Goodbye by Karen Robards
The 9th Judgment by James Patterson
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
Absolute Power by David Baldacci

Finished Hollow Bones by C.J. Lyons. Very impressed. Not a page turner, but very well written thriller with an intriguing mystery. I was most impressed that none of the characters really behaved stupidly in order to create a crisis. They were all pretty clever and rational.

Just finished The Body in the Lighthouse by Katherine Hall Page and after reading two from this series, I don't really think it is for me. I find it more drama than mystery and had get through half the book before there was a dead body. I want something faster paced. I'm starting The Drop by Michael Connelly today. I have read a handful of Harry Bosch stories and like them quite well.

Currently reading Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel, the latest by Jefferson Bass. It's interesting because it is actually a prequel to the series.

I just finished The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. I started Bad Monkey.

I am reading

which has turned out waayyyy better than I expected.Im about page 70 now I think and give this book a 5/5..so far.Not sure what the rest of the book will be like.It has a little over 400 pages.But its a page turner and Im really enjoying it.

I'm currently reading Cutthroat

I just finished reading two books that were not Mystery/Crime Thrillers. Now reading . Not too far along but enjoying the beginning.