Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

I am reading Recipes for Love and Murder for one of the book clubs I attend. I like Tannie Marie and so far enjoy this different type of mystery set in South Africa. The descriptors are wonderful along with adding recipes for dishes that sound wonderful make this a great read,

Camisa wrote: "I am reading Recipes for Love and Murder for one of the book clubs I attend. I like Tannie Marie and so far enjoy this different type of mystery set in South Africa. The descriptors are wonderful a..."

Sounds fun!

Anyone read 'Byte' by Eric C. Anderson? It only came out this month!

https://booktrib.com/2018/10/eric-and...

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

Just finished Éclair Murder by Harper Lin.

Also reading Corkscrew and Other Stories: Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Middle Years, Volume 3 by Dashiell Hammett

I am reading FOUNDRYSIDE by Robert Jackson Bennett. I’m only about 20% in but it’s pretty good so far.

While You Were Sleeping by Kathryn Croft
It’s very good so far 👻

Linda wrote: "The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny"

Just started this and I'm feeling optimistic.

Just finished this oldieThe Murder of My Aunt written in 1934 and found it thoroughly enjoyable. Worth the effort to hunt it down.

Aditya wrote: "@Judith His last one The Thin Man. I like the banter in it between the leads. There are elements of screwball comedy in it."

My favorite book by Hammett is The Glass Key. It was also the book he himself considered his best.

Helter Skelter

Christophe wrote: "Aditya wrote: "@Judith His last one The Thin Man. I like the banter in it between the leads. There are elements of screwball comedy in it."

My favorite book by Hammett is The Glass Key. It was als..."

Thanks, Christophe!

Right as I'm about to die, I realize all the myths are fake. There's no white light at the end of a
tunnel. My life isn't flashing before my eyes

All I can think about is how much I want to live !

I moved to New York City a month ago to become the best journalist the world had ever seen. To find the greatest stories never told. And now here I am—Henry Parker, twenty-four years old and weary beyond rational thought, a bullet one trigger pull from ending my life. I can't run. Running is all Amanda and I have done for the past seventy-two hours. And I'm tired. Tired of knowing the truth and not being able to tell it.

I knew that both of these men—one an FBI agent, the other an assassin—wanted me dead, but for very different reasons!

Wow, my first book by this author and this is his debut author with a great character in Henry Parker, and a terrific story, no wonder this book has been optioned as a feature film.

I find this to be a great paced action thriller that's keeps you guessing all the way, a great page turner, gripping and realistic. Not quite the life Henry Parker wanted to start his reporter job at the
New York Gazette.

His only ally an unsuspecting NYU coed Amanda a woman he was just hitching a ride from but she seems to believe his story and wants to help. So now they are both on the run from a policeman who wants revenge and a hitman who wants the package that Henry doesn't have, while trying to figure out how he became wanted by the NYPD, the FBI and the mob.

So nearly a five star book, gripping, fast paced, action packed, great twists an explosive last few chapters, will make a great film.

Ready for number 2 !

Fun review!

Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose 5-Stars
Thorne and Gwyn!!! Twisty, Turney Plot by a Master of the Genre
My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished one of the best books I have read all year:


Provinces of Night by William Gay
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started:


The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Finished The Craftsman by Sharon J. Bolton

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

I also recently finished The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton. It is tailor-made for Halloween season reading!
Here is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just Finished Memory Man by


Here's my review:

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

Enjoy!

Finished reading by Jeffrey Archer

My Review

I am reading by John Sandford

Finished A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block. Another good thriller from Block that adds to the very consistent Scudder series. Rating 4/5.
My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And Drama City by George Pelecanos, it is on the middling side of things. Rating - 3/5.
My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Randy wrote: "I finished one of the best books I have read all year:


Provinces of Night by William Gay
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.go..."

I was planning to read more Southern Gothic novels with memorable characters and great writing, looks like this one will be worth checking out.

I finished A Whisper to the Living by Stuart M. Kaminsky, the last and 16th in his Inspecter Porfiry series, but my first read of a Kaminsky novel. The first two thirds were fine — not inspired but workmanlike and a great job of integrating three story lines and a dozen or so characters. The last third and the ending, though, were well done. A few annoying errors in terms of Russian names and culture, suggestive of either sloppy research or editing, but they don’t impact the story. I’ll look to find perhaps the 4th or 5th in the series (in my experience often the high point for mystery and detective series) soon.

Aditya wrote: "Provinces of Night by William Gay
Rating: 5 stars..."

I was planning to read more Southern Gothic novels with memorable characters and great writing, looks like this one will be worth checking out."

I thought so. I don't give a lot of books 5 stars but this one earned it.

Finished reading by John Sandford

My Review

Yesterday I finished:


Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

I enjoyed Adrian Hyland's first novel, Moonlight Downs - intrigue in the outback with the feisty half-Aboriginal, half-white Emily Tempest. I'm a fan!
4.5★ Link to my review

I finished these:


The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

(and for some REAL crooks)

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


The Black Ice by Michael Connelly


The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Mystery & Detective by Arthur Conan Doyle


The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 edited by Elizabeth George

Currently reading Map Skills Murder by Leslie Langtry and The Rubber Band by Rex Stout

Ah, another good Aussie debut! Love seeing such good new talent. In The Nowhere Child by Christian White, Aussie Kim is told - surprise! - you're actually American Sandy!
4.5★ Link to my review

Our Man In Havana

This book is really drawing me in!

Started reading Knots & Crosses by Ian Rankin

I’m going to be reading Christmas books

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

What a book

In Her Shadow

Elevation by Stephen King.

Finished reading by Robert Dugoni

My Review


I have started reading by Tess Gerritsen

Im gonna start THE KEPT WOMAN by Karin Slaughter today...

Just got done reading these

The Outsider by Stephen King Not as good as I though it would be but that's a lot with king's newer books some of his newer ones are very good and some are just awful

The Reckless by David Putnam I won this on a giveaway I found this book on the boring side and very slow to read It didnt wow me I read better books.
3/5 stars

The Jury MasterRobert Dugoni A New Author but i couldnt get into this one at all it was on the boring side

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter Another Masterpiece from Karin Slaugther i so couldnt put this one down If you like her books you will love this one

K is for Killer by Sue Grafton I am trying to get this whole series finish. I really love her books Sad that she pastaway last year though :(

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing Be prepared to be shocked!!
This book was so good It Made you hook form the beginging to the end You will not be able to look at people again afrer reading this. I am so glad i won this and I just found a new author for me to follow!

Finished Sadie

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

Aussie author Caroline Overington is an award-winning investigative journalist, so I knew I'd enjoy her story of a celebrity's missing toddler. The Ones You Trust reveals the ins and outs of publicity vs police.
4★Link to my review

Finished The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald. Nice old school noir, not the best the genre has to offer but pretty good. Rating - 4/5

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

The nightingale

Finished reading (The Sinner) by Tess Gerritsen

My Review

I am reading by James Comey

Started reading Elegy for April by Benjamin Black

I finished reading My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent.

Finished reading (A Higher Loyalty) by James Comey

My Review

I have started reading (Fear: Trump in the White House)

by Bob Woodward

Finished Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg 3.75 ⭐️

Now listening to Death of an Outsider by M.C. Beaton - the reader, Shaun Grindell is absolutely terrific. He’s the narrator for most of this series. I read the first two books on my tablet but for the rest of the series, I’ll listen to Shaun’s wonderful voice on audio.
(this is #3 in the Hamish Macbeth series)

Can’t believe this happened to me. Help me out people. So I noticed I got a bad review on my debut book, after I posted my picture. Proud to be a black author. I am not upset about bad reviews we all think different, we all like different things that is fine, but he started posting and pasting the same comment all over the internet where ever my book was at. He also gives away parts of my book. Which is a surprise ending mystery suspense thriller. He also has giving over 200 hundred comments all good. But mines he had to try and destroy my book. All after I posted a picture of my self. I have all great reviews except his one. Once again I don’t care about bad reviews but the way he has done by racial, harassing and spoiling parts of the book is just wrong. We need to stop trying to hurt others for no reason. Whether skin color, different culture, height, weight whatever. I am a black author and I’m proud and I will keep pushing. My book is called -My Dead Blue Caterpillar.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

@Rasheed This is not the forum for your issue. Contact GR admins if you think this has actually happened. Just 2 things I noticed
1. Lots of people post their reviews on multiple sites including Goodreads and Amazon. That in itself is not an example of anyone waging a smear campaign.
2. Your book has 7 ratings, if you start playing the race card the first time you get a bad review, it will be very difficult to take you seriously. 7 reviews is simply not a big enough sample size to proclaim your book has got universally positive reviews and anyone being the outlier is racially motivated.

Once again if you are convinced you have been harassed because of race please contact relevant moderators.