The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

The Deserter by Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille

I'm normally a fan of Demille's smart-mouth heroes and their adventures but I thought this one dragged a bit. 530 pages, about 100 too many.

Aww thanks Bill and Barbara and Catia and Patty and RJ and I feel so loved lol

Just finished Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand.

Will begin Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky in about 20 minutes.

Finished The Winner - 3.5/5
Currently reading Zero Day
and Sometimes I Lie

I've been listening to NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Never Forget: A Victor Lessard Thriller
I rated it 3.5 rounded down to 3 stars, primarily because of a far fetched JFK conspiracy connection.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I started Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke.

I finished The Last Temptation by Val McDermid today; the 3rd book in the Tony Hill / Carol Jordan series. My review below.

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

Kirsten #EndGunViolence wrote: "I've been listening to NOS4A2 by Joe Hill"

I liked this book. 😊

New Tricks by David Rosenfelt

Andy Carpenter #7, OK to read as stand-alone. Light, fun read about an irreverent New Jersey lawyer defending a fellow dog-lover accused of murder. Recommended for dog-loving mystery buffs.

I finished my 101st book

Spook Country by William Gibson

Spook Country follows three groups of characters whose story threads merge as the narrative unfolds. The action moves from various parts of the United States to Canada as the protagonists pursue their mysterious agendas.

Good suspense novel. 3.5 stars

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

Got done reading these
Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle
Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler
Lies by T.M. Logan
The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

Going go to the library this weekend to see if i can find some good books

finished Zero Day and
Sometimes I Lie

Shannon I read those three books called Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle and Lies by T.M. Logan and An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

started Sworn to Silence

four stars

I liked this book. This is the first book I read by this author. Can anyone recommend another good book by this author?

MJ wrote: " four stars

I liked this book. This is the first book I read by this author. Can anyone recommend another good book by this author?"

I love her DD Warren series. The first book is Alone

Finished start of a new series (2 books so far) by Sharon Bolton, The Craftsman. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished Turning Angel by Greg Iles (Penn Cage #2)

Jean I’m a huge fan of Lisa Gardner

I'm halfway through House on a cliff

Jean wrote: "MJ wrote: " four stars

I liked this book. This is the first book I read by this author. Can anyone recommend another good book by this author?"

I love her DD Warren..."

I will try that book thanks Jean

Finished a very different DD Warren book: The Guy Who Died Twice . Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished:


Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Although it's not really a mystery/crime book it does concern a true life series of events (see: Great Wyrley Outrages at Wikipedia) that lead to an innocent man's conviction and the involvement of Arthur Conan Doyle to clean the man's name. Highly recommended.

Just finished

The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell

Another solid thriller fom Jewell with some pretty unbelievable plot choices. My full review:

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

Recently read and thoroughly enjoyed:

Tuesday's Gone by Nicci French (husband & wife team of authors), the second in the Frieda Klein series and

To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey, one of the great writers of the Golden Age of Mystery. This is the fourth of her Inspector Alan Grant series of titles.

Linda how’s that book called House on a cliff?

I've just started The Woman In The Window and I've flew through 100 pages loving it so far!

Just finished ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Starting

finished Memory Man

Finished one of our group reads: A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson. Quite a convoluted plot that ends in murder of a teenage girl.

Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz

When Orphan X (Evan Smoak) agrees to help a man in the sights of an Armenian gang, he bites off way more than he thought.

The book is chock full of action, so it you like that sort of thing, this is the book for you. 4 stars

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

reading Run Away

Reading Nine Elms. New by Robert Bryndza. New character for him.

Currently reading Angel Mage by Garth Nix.... omg

I have been reading the Agatha Raisin series by M. C. Beaton. I'm currently on book 19.

Christina The House on the cliff was pretty good. It's a Hardy boys story. I'm reading The Chain.

Currently reading 13 by Steve Cavanagh. So far so good

reading The Eames-Erskine Case: A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery (1924) by A.E. Fielding, another obscure, lost, and forgotten female author of yesteryear.

I just finished Heart-Shaped Box . It was OK.

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

Now I am going to start The Invited

finished Run Away

started Killman Creek

Finished The Best American Noir of the Century. Inconsistent and a bad introduction to the genre for a newbie but genre fans might check it out for the few flashes of brilliance from writers like Dennis Lehane and James Lee Burke. As no one had so far reviewed the individual stories, I did it and frankly I will mainly remember this for the longest review I have ever written on GR :) Rating - 3/5

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

The Noel Coward Murder Case by George Baxt

New York City, 1935, Noel Coward is in town to sing at a new nightclub opening and gets caught up in a murder mystery. Very cute, very light, nothing to be taken seriously. But fun if you're in the mood.

Finished reading , Savage Run

by , C.J. Box

My Review

I finished my 102nd book

Have started reading The Noble Path byPeter May after finishing Vacation byJane Green. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

Linda I didn’t know the book The House on the Cliff was The Hardy Boys book but I’m glad it was pretty good and Linda I read that book called The Chain by Adrian McKinty

Nancy wrote: "reading The Eames-Erskine Case: A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery (1924) by A.E. Fielding, another obscure, lost, and forgotten female author of yesteryear."

I'm always on the lookout for a new series. Thanks for mentioning A.E. Fielding. My TBR list just got longer. : )

The older books intrigue me just as much as the new ones do -- maybe more so because they have stood the test of time. To that end, I recently read:

The Crime at Black Dudley , the first in Margery Allingham's Albert Campion series and

The Pusher by Ed McBain, the third offering in his 87th Precinct series.