The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Finished The Tightrope Walker by Dorothy Gilman. Took about halfway through this relatively short mystery to get truly hooked. 3 stars.

Finished , a debut!
Received an arc and happy to say I enjoyed it very much!

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

reading a lot of caimh mcdonnell these days. he is hilarious.

I just finished listening to The Stolen Boys

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

Nancy wrote: "I really, really enjoy reading Cornell Woolrich's books. They're not all great, but I still have a fondness for his work."

Sorry to just be seeing this. New job has me checking in with GR groups only on weekends for the most part. Daughter's basketball season has come to an end though so that opens up a little more time, but that will probably be taken up by sleep.

I have only read Woolrich's Night Has a Thousand Eyes which didn't do much for me, but I already like this one a lot better.

Randy wrote: "Took me a while, but finally finished The Postman Always Rings Twice. I'm reminded of why it may be the seminal text of noir; Existentialism as it's lived rather than as it's theorized."

Well said. Also a favorite of mine.

A Strangers Game

4/5 stars
What do you get when you cross elements of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with the Vermont Eugenics Movement of the 1930s?

The link to my review is below.

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

Something to Hide by Elizabeth George

Scotland Yard Detective Thomas Lynley and his team investigate the death of a policewoman who was trying to stop the practice of female genital mutilation in London.

Good book. 4 stars

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

My review of I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad

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

Finished reading Dead Memories

by Angela Marsons

My Review

Faith, I’m reading that one right now!

Barbara wrote: "Something to Hide by Elizabeth George

Scotland Yard Detective Thomas Lynley and his team investigate the death of a policewo..."

I liked it too.

Aussie author Candice Fox has really established herself as a thriller writer, with the new TV series Troppo, set in the North Queensland tropics, based on her first book, Crimson Lake. Her latest, The Chase, finds 600+ prisoners turned loose in the Nevada desert, including those on Death Row. Why? You may well ask. I can see another film prospect here!
4★ My review of The Chase

Read French Braid
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Reading Diablo Mesa

I finished Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus. Now I’m reading The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith. This is the second book in the series of Cormoran Strike.

Finished reading by

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Canadian author Alice Munro is one of the world's best-loved storytellers. In 2013, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work as "master of the contemporary short story". I've enjoyed several, and I just read her 1968 debut, Dance of the Happy Shades. So good.
4.5★ My review of Dance of the Happy Shades with a link to some stories you can read online

Reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, and about to finish Black Beadle by EC Lorac (1939). On the non-crime front, I started Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, first of the Booker International longlisted books I'm reading.

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

Octogenarian Maud values her privacy, likes to travel, and knows how to look out for herself. Maud also has a penchant for murder, so don't get on her wrong side.

As long as you remember it's fiction, it's a fun book. 4 stars

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

Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood

Pentecost and Parker #2, should probably be read in order. Someone has killed an old friend of Will's so she and Lillian head south to the circus to unmask the killer. It's OK. 2 stars.

Finished Notes on an Execution.

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4549436246

I finished my 21st book

The Crocodiles on The Sands

I've been reading The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson and have just started listening to Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

★★★

Finished The Maid

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4466763466

My review of Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

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

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli - a must read for those interested in politics or in Renaissance Italy

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4481961636

A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King

Russell and Holmes #3. A friend of Russell's is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident but there's much more afoot. This particular effort by King is far from her best. I figured out the killer ( you knew that was no accident ) half way through the book and the ending got fastened to the story with Scotch tape and glue. But you gotta love Sherlock Holmes. 3 stars.

A modern retelling of The Island of Dr. Monreau. 4/5 stars

see the link below for my review


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

Finished reading In the Best Families

by Rex Stout

My Review

Just completed This is the night they come for you by Robert GoddardRobert Goddard
A fascinating and highly entertaining book

Here's my 5* review

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

The Jailhouse Lawyer

I finished my 22nd book

Finished Boys Don't Cry

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4559924438

I read Girl on the Run by Carolyn Arnold
I rated this police procedural 4 stars. My review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Read The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished the first of Robert Dugoni's Tracy Crosswhite series, My Sister's Grave. Twenty years after her sister disappeared, detective Tracy Crosswhite is told they've found her bones. Mixed feelings about this one.
3.5★ My review of My Sister's Grave

I finally started the Brother Cadfael historical mystery series by Ellis Peters ( aka Edith Pargeter ), and I grew quite fond of this canny, medieval monk in Book 1, A Morbid Taste for Bones. I will be reading more!
3.5★ My review of Morbid Taste for Bones

Perfume

Just at the halfway point of Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung. Don't let the cute bunny on the cover fool you -- this book is beyond wicked.

I finished the classic domestic suspense novel


I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first Amelia Peabody mystery


Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

I just finished Finding Mrs. Ford

A decent, but somewhat implausible mystery. My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to solve two related homicides and Renee tries to track down a tag team of rapists.

Good thriller mystery. 3.5 stars

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