Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

I just finished the most wonderful book: This Is the Way It Always Is ... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

Starting out the week with a historical PI mystery Stardust Trail by J. R. Sanders https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I needed a change of pace so I read Mia P. Manansala's debut novel - a multicultural cosy mystery with a focus that would please foodies -
Arsenic and Adobo


My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4938679486

My next book for the week is Death on the Set by Rose Kerr https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Listening to Hidden Pictures

I can see why Alex North's mystery/thriller The Whisper Man was such a hit a couple of years ago. There is nothing like a serial killer who is kidnapping children to get the heart racing and put the community and police force on edge!

4.5★ My review

Finishing out the week with "V" is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Carrion Death

Finished Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. I loved it. It speaks to the misfits, the deabeats, the loners. It is about no fitting in and running away from the herd. Funny, vulgar, honest and brilliant. Must read. 5/5

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

Finished reading What She Found

by Robert Dugoni

My Review

Read A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin

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

Recently finished - The Others by Mark Brandi

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

Just finished:

I have been looking forward to reading this. Just started The Forgotten Kingdom: A Novel by Signe Pike

Just finished:

Just finished ... Extremely good!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Starting the week with the delightful Round Up the Usual Peacocks by Donna Andrews https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Started reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

My review of Look Closer by David Ellis

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

Another really good one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Currently reading (2)
I run a local book club and this month we're reading Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney.

The other one is The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill - don't know how I feel about this one just yet, it seems all over the place.

Starting September with Union Jacked by Diane Vallere https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I had hoped to enjoy The Lullaby Man by Aussie author Anni Taylor more than the first in the series. It's set in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, a beautiful place. The author has lots of fans, so this might be just me.
3★ My review

Broken Promise

just finished

Jess wrote: "JF: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - It started off slower than I like except for the back stories from the daughter's point of view but I must say, the second half made up for it..."


Agree about Then She Was Gone.

I just finished The One by John Marrs. So good. Next I'll be finishing The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

It Happened One Summer.

Murder Once Removed

Jess wrote: "Currently reading (2)
I run a local book club and this month we're reading Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney.

The other one is The Woman in the Library by Sulari ..."

Hope you enjoy Rock Paper Scissors l would recommend it.

My review of Little Sister by Gytha Lodge

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

The Partisan has everything: hot war, cold war, spies, assassins, history, and real people who fight, love, and care. It's hard to believe it's Patrick Worrall's debut novel. A great story about a dark time in Europe.
5★ My review

Finished reading The Hidden One

by Linda Castillo

My Review

I just started, The Vanishing Type. This will only be the second series I have been able to stay with all the way through! It took me a little while to get to know my characters but I have really enjoyed the writing style and of course the mystery 😊

THE CUMBERLAND KILLERS
Contemporary crime novels in which Appalachia is both setting and subject are a significant achievement in the genre of country Noir. James Aura's work promises to be is just as significant as that of Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, David Joy, Dorothy Allison, Steph Post, or Rusty Barnes. The Cumberland Killers, set in 1985, is as prescient about strip mining in rural Kentucky as Compton's Brown Bottle is about drug dependence is in the same region a generation later.
Eastern Kentucky 's hill people are a kind of composite character in The Cumberland Killers, just as the region itself is. The contrast is between people who read at the public library, deal with interest rates, ride bad roads in old cars, and try to raise dairy goats; and on the other hand the self-protective politicians and "bloviating" corpsuits. The uniqueness of a mountain hamlet,, Sandgap, is made vivid by the protagonist 's encountered with a sleepy but affable sheriff 's deputy.
It would be interesting to know why the author chooses to publish his books independently. He has done so three times at least. Perhaps, given the number of careful reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, he has been as successful as he well deserves.

needed to read a cozy Pawsitively Poisonous by Melissa Erin Jackson

Just finished: &

Now started:

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney - it's my local book club's BOTM.

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

Yesterday, I finished Robert Dugoni's What She Found
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Reading

Homicide and Halo-Halo

Author Mia P. Manansala improved with her sequel in the cosy with ethnic food mysteries.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4969622641

Starting out the week with a trip to Rome! Murder in the Piazza by Jen Collins Moore https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review of - The Whispering by Veronica Lando. One of my rare 5 star ratings, thought it was a brilliantly constructed Australian mystery.

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

Started this yesterday...The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

Keeping my European virtual trip going with Death in the Aegean by M. A. Monnin https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It's impossible to figure out who all The Liars are in Aussie author Petronella McGovern's new small town mystery. From colonial crimes to more recent rapes and disappearances, it seems nobody is safe and anybody could be under suspicion.
3★ My review of The Liars

Started reading The High Window by Raymond Chandler

I'm reading a book I got from the library The Book of Cold Cases . The previous borrower must have dropped it in the bathtub and it's totally wrinkled, even the back cover. Kind of adds to the spookiness of the book.

Finished reading A Deadly Influence

by Mike Omer

My Review

Currently reading "Zero Day" by David Baldacci. Finished around 300 pages. Very good so far. Gripping