The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Gatorman wrote: "T wrote: ""

Yes, it's by Mo Hayder and it's her best book."

Thanks, G - It's on my TBR I think! Have only read one by M. Hayder - stumbled a bit on the English slang...

Happy Burpday!

Hiroshima- John Hersey

The Sculptress - Minette Walters

The Road- Cormac McCarthy

1. Murder on the Orient Express - That's my all time fave!!
2. Murder at the Gallop (After the Funeral, but with Miss Marple instead of Poirot!)
3. A Time to Kill
4. Death on the Nile - Fantastic Film, one of my favourites
5. Angels & Demons - have you seen it yet? I liked it much more than The Da Vinci Code movie.
6. The Pelican Brief - very good movie
7. Kiss The Girls
8. Double indemnity- and a good movie too

Top 10 authors you read:

(in no particular order...)

1. Jonathan Kellerman
2. Faye Kellerman
3. Ridley Pearson
4. John Sandford
5. Jeffrey Deaver
6. Robert Crais
7. Janet Evanovich
8. Alex Kava
9. Kathy Reichs
10. Harlan Coben

< hmmm...there's more, but those were the first 10 that came to mind... >

Minette Walters
Denise Mina
Carol O'Connell
Anthony Eglin
Greg Iles
Michael Connelly
Laurie King
Val McDermid
Sophie Hannah
Louise Penny

1. Laura Lippman
2. Louise Penny
3. John Carter Dickson
4. Agatha Christie
5. Michael Connolly
6. Charles Todd
7. Robert Crais
8. Ian Rankin
9. Aline Templeton
10. Barbara D'Amato

(I included some oldies but goodies)

(also no real order)

1. Stephen King
2. John Connolly
3. Mo Hayder
4. Philip Kerr
5. Preston & Child
6. T. Jefferson Parker
7. John Hart
8. Gary Braunbeck
9. Stephen Booth
10. Michael Marshall

1.Susan Hill
2.Kate Atkinson
3.Stuart McBride
4.Mark Billingham
5.Ann Cleeves
6.Jo Nesbo
7.Hakan Nesser
8.Michele Giuttari
9.John Harvey
10.Val McDermid
11.Henning Mankell
12.Peter James.

I cheated- couldn't keep it to 10-these 12 are indispensable and there's still Ian Rankin,Peter Robinson etc.

Elizabeth George
Henning Mankell
P.D. James
Joan Aiken
Johann Sebastian Bach
Agatha Christie
William Pène du Bois
Dare Wright
Tomi Ungerer
Saul Bellow

(copied from my stats)

Stuart McBride
Mo Hayder
Simon Beckett
Karin Slaughter
Lisa Gardner
Cody McFaddyn
Val McDermid
S.J. Bolton
Sarah Rayne
Richard Montanari

Not in any order:

1) Greg Isles
2) Ken Follett
3) David Morrell
4) John Hart
5) Dennis Lehane
6) Isabella Allende '
7) Jodi Picoult
8) Kate Morton
9) Edward Rutherfurd
10) Cody McFadyen

Lisa Gardner
Linwood Barclay
Stephen King
Karin Slaughter
Gillian Flynn
Cody McFadyen
Agatha Christie
Ann Rule
Janet Evanovich
Robin Cook
(today, in no particular order)

The Nearest Exit Olen Stenhauer

Barry Eisler
Lee Child
Laurie King
Sam Christer
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Vince Flynn
Frank Tallis
Jo Nesbo
Stieg Larson
George Pelecanos
Alex Berenson
Henning Menkel

Ten least favorite novels ever read:

1. Relentless

1. Relentless
2. The Scarlet Letter

Madame Bovary but I think I was too young to really understand it -maybe I should give it another go.

I looked back at my lists of books read and these are a few of them that I did not like.
l. In the Woods, Tana French
2. Shoot Him if He Runs, Stuart Woods
3. The Fourth Procedure, Stanley Pottinger
4. The Laws of Our Fathers, Scott Turow
5. The Persifal Mosaic, Robert Ludlum
I probably have others and some of these authors I do like, but did not like these particular books.

Ten least favorite novels ever read:

1. Relentless
2. The Scarlet Letter
3. Bridget Jones's Diary

Thanks.