Reading the Detectives discussion

Welcome, Icewineanne - great that you have joined us, and that you plan to join in with the PD James books.

Welcome everyone! :)

Welcome - this is a great group, they have added to my TBR pile enormously!

I too am just starting to read P D James. Welcome to the group

I recently decided to read (or re-read) all the Poirot novels in order and am currently on Cards on the Table. I'm glad to have found this group and look forward to perusing the Poirot threads. I also love Rex Stout, Steven Saylor and Ellis Peters, among others.

Welcome Vicki, glad you found us! We have many fans of Christie, Stout and Peters here, so you are in good company. I haven't tried Steven Saylor as yet but the Roman setting sounds intriguing.

Hi Vicki - welcome!

Welcome, Vicki. We're glad you joined us.

Hello Vicki. This is a lovely group. I hope you enjoy reading with us. I haven’t tried Stout or Saylor but I’m a big Cadfael fan. I love the Poirot books so I’ll be interested to know what you think of them.

Welcome Vicki! Same regarding Poirot and Cadfael! :)

Hi all! I just discovered Agatha Christie, and now I have the necessity of reading all her books (I'm starting with the Poirot's series).
I love crime/police novels, and I'm sure that, in this group, I will discover more authors that I will love.

Hi LittleDuck - welcome to the group. Christie is my favourite author - I envy you discovering her for the first time :)

Welcome LittleDuck! Who doesn´t love Agatha Christie? ;)

Welcome LittleDuck. This group will have you reading lots of good authors.

LittleDuck wrote: "Hi all! I just discovered Agatha Christie, and now I have the necessity of reading all her books (I'm starting with the Poirot's series).
I love crime/police novels, and I'm sure that, in this gro..."

Welcome to the group Little Duck! It will be great to know which others authors you've enjoyed too. I always like hearing about new crime series!

Welcome, LittleDuck, glad you found us. We have a Poirot book each month as a buddy read, and the old threads are still open for previous books, so you are welcome to post in those too.

Hi! I'm so happy to have found this group. I love Mick Herron, Tana French, CJ Sansom, Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May, and anything Elizabeth Peters (and Ellis Peters). Looking forward to some more wonderful reads!

Welcome Lizzie. Mick Herron and C J Sansom are two of my favourites too. We have an Ellis Peters buddy read (Monk's Hood) next month.

Thank you all for the warm welcome! :)

Sue wrote: "LittleDuck wrote: "Hi all! I just discovered Agatha Christie, and now I have the necessity of reading all her books (I'm starting with the Poirot's series).
I love crime/police novels, and I'm sur..."

Sue, I do not know that many authors, as before I just read young adult novels (fantasy, sci-fi, etc) and theatre-plays.

At home, no-one likes the same books as me (they read more romantic or young adult novels), so I'm kind of "blind" trying to figurate out what to read next (now with Agatha Christie I have enough books for a while hahaha).

So the authors that I read are known, like Mary Higgins Clark, Stephen King (even they are more thriller - fiction), and Jonh Verdon.

Welcome Lizzie! Reading the Cadfael series too.

LittleDuck wrote: "Sue, I do not know that many authors, as before I just read young adult novels (fantasy, sci-fi, etc) and theatre-plays...."

Oh well you have a whole new world opening up to you then! Agatha Christie is a great place to start too.

Lizzie94 wrote: "Hi! I'm so happy to have found this group. I love Mick Herron, Tana French, CJ Sansom, Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May, and anything Elizabeth Peters (and Ellis Peters). Looking forward to some..."

Hi Lizzie and welcome! I love the Amelia Peabody series and have most of them here at home as I'm a big re-reader.

Welcome Lizzie, glad you have joined. :)

Hi Jack. Welcome to the group. If you wish to mention your book, please do so in the thread we have for self-promotion:

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Two self-promotion posts have been removed and will be reposted in our self-promotion thread.

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Hello everyone, I really enjoy mysteries from this era. My favorite author is Agatha Christie. I'm looking forward to trying new authors that I have not read yet.

Welcome Elizabeth! Lots of AC fans here, including myself.

Welcome to the group, Elizabeth.

I have removed a post as it broke our rules of self-promotion. Please can author's use the appropriate - self-promotion thread - if they wish to do so and not general discussion threads.

Welcome Elizabeth, glad you found us! We have lots of Christie fans and you should find more authors to try here. :)

Thank you for dealing with the self-promotion post, Susan.

Hello,
my name is Kay and I haven't read many mystery books but for a few. The author I've enjoyed most so far is Kerry Greenwood. She is from Australia and writes historical detective novels.
I don't know what else to say, I haven't commented much on Goodreads. I'm trying to get myself to read more as I have not for a long time.
Nice to meet you all.

Welcome Kay, glad to meet you.

We have quite a few fans of Kerry Greenwood and her Phryne Fisher novels here - I also love the TV series, though I found the recent feature-length sequel a bit of a disappointment!

Hi Kay - welcome to the group.

Hi Kay. Welcome I have read the couple of Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books and intend to read more

I love Kerry’s Phrynne Fisher series and the tv adaptations. She has a really enjoyable writing style,

Hello all,
I saw that you will be reading some more Agatha Christie mysteries for the 2021 group challenge, so I decided to join the group. I've only read a few of her Miss Marple and Poirot books and loved them, so I thought that reading one Christie each month would be a lovely project for the new year.

I'm a relatively new convert to the crime and mystery genre, therefore I find it hard to name favourite authors... I enjoyed books by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Robert Galbraith and Martha Grimes in the past, but hardly read anything by Golden Age writers - something I'd really like to change! ;-)
I'm looking forward to reading some good detective stories with you all!

Hello everyone. Mysteries have always been my favorite reading choice. I started with Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys and moved on to Agatha Christie as a teen and P.D. James and Ngaio Marsh as an adult. I am retired and with my "free time" look forward to rereading old favorites and discovering new ones.

ChrisGA wrote: "Hello everyone. Mysteries have always been my favorite reading choice. I started with Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys and moved on to Agatha Christie as a teen and P.D. James and Ngaio Marsh as an adult...."

Welcome Chris! Which would you say is your favorite Marsh

probably Spinsters in Jeopardy--enjoyed him as a family man. Artists in Crime and the beginning of the relationship with Agatha Troy.

Welcome to the group, ChrisGA. Hopefully, there will be lots of old favourites and new authors to discover :)

Welcome Chris, glad you found us.

ChrisGA wrote: "probably Spinsters in Jeopardy--enjoyed him as a family man. Artists in Crime and the beginning of the relationship with Agatha Troy."

Hello Chris. Artists in Crime is one of my favourites too.

ChrisGA wrote: "Hello everyone. Mysteries have always been my favorite reading choice. I started with Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys and moved on to Agatha Christie as a teen and P.D. James and Ngaio Marsh as an adult...."

I was a Nancy Drew fan myself, still am.

Greetings and salutations! I live in the Chicago area, in the United States. I am a life-long mystery reader, a habit acquired from my mother. I, like many others here, am a fan of Christie, Sayers, and Marsh, as well as Stout, Heyer, Haddam, and Grimes, among many others. I am looking forward to revisiting some Christies in the new year and to having some fellow lovers of the golden age to talk with.

Welcome, Jennifer! Glad you have joined - that's a wonderful selection of favourite authors. I'm also looking forward to our new Christie challenge in the New Year. :)

Welcome to the group, Jennifer :)

Welcome Jennifer. I moved from the area 5 years ago to western North Carolina when we had to put my mother in assisted living and one of us had to move here. I was the chosen one since I didn't already own two houses, let alone one. Happy in my condo by the creek now.

Jan, you probably don’t miss the Chicago winters! I am originally from California and still not quite used to them.

Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome! :)

No, I don't miss the 6 month long winters. Or the gray snow that stays forever!

Here the snow is gone in 2 days, if not sooner. I was in SoCal for a while - I couldn't stand that there weren't seasons like we saw in Chicago. Especially Autumn.

Jan C wrote: "No, I don't miss the 6 month long winters. Or the gray snow that stays forever!

Here the snow is gone in 2 days, if not sooner. I was in SoCal for a while - I couldn't stand that there weren't sea..."

I've lived in New York my entire life, and I don't think I could ever adjust to a place that doesn't have a true fall and winter. Fall is my absolute favorite.

I think it is only Florida and California don't have changes. Natives may know the changes but they completely passed me by. Chicago jokes that it has 2 seasons - winter and construction season.

Fall is beautiful in NC. It is also tourist season.