The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Finished reading Dark Sky

C.J. Box

My Review

Jim how’s your book going called Dark Sky by C.J. Box?

Started reading Dead Right by Peter Robinson

Historical fiction/police detective mystery set in Paris. My first time reading Mark Pryor. 4 stars.
Die Around Sundown: A Mystery
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Jean wrote: "Historical fiction/police detective mystery set in Paris. My first time reading Mark Pryor. 4 stars.
Die Around Sundown: A Mystery
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I've read his Hugo Marston series and enjoyed them

Just finished The 13th Girl by Sarah GoodwinSarah Goodwin - Would have given it 6 stars if I could!!

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

My review of The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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

Helltown is billed as nonfiction but it’s really a fictionalized account of a true story.
My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 for The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Sandy how’s your book going called The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley?

My review of Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt

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

Home for a While by Lauren Kerstein, brightly illustrated by Natalia Moore is the story of little Calvin, who is arriving at yet another foster home, feeling unwanted and angry. But Maggie knows what she's doing!
4.5★ Link to my review of Home For a While with several illustrations

All readers should download these Buzz Book samplers for free when they are offered. Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter has excerpts from heaps of new Fiction, Debut, Nonfiction, and Young Adult books due out soon. I've mentioned some I like, of course!
5★ Link to my review of the latest Buzz Books with some quotes

Finished reading Shadows Reel

by C.J. Box

My Review

I read Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Katherine J. Chen I enjoyed it and recommend it to historical fiction fans. My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Read The Island
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm continuing on with Michael Stanley's Detective Kubu series and loving it. I'm currently reading the 5th book in the series: A Death in the Family.

Now starting BAD ACTORS by Mick Herron, the newest release (#8) in his ongoing Slough House series featuring the maverick, cunning, curmudgeon Cold War spy Jackson Lamb and his band of MI-5 misfits. Always a good mix of thrills and humor.

I finished my 46th book

The Boy From The Woods

Started a re-read of And Then There Were None

Currently finishing up my 5th (?) reread of As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, and again awed by what he could do with the written word.

In between, when my mind isn't quite up to the challenge, I've been reading Kerry Greenwood's The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions, a collection of Phryne Fisher short stories. Greenwood does a nice job of capturing the off-hand, jaunty style of the "Golden Age" mysteries of Christie, Sayers and Carr. Fluff, but fluff that makes me grin.

I just finished the very disturbing The Ruins

My 3.5 star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished How to Find your way in the Dark

First part was much stronger than the last. My 3.5 star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished Malevolent
My review : goodreads.com/review/show/4753180337?...

Yesterday I finished reading Night Over Fitch's Pond by Cora Jarrett (1933). Very different in that at the beginning, a death has already happened and the narrator is sitting with the body during the night, telling the story of how things came to be that way. At first I'm thinking what the heck, but once the character introductions were finished, she really got down to some serious business. It seems that the author went to great pains to call her book a psychological portrait of a marriage rather than a crime story, but it suited me just fine once it started taking off.

Also read Of Women and Salt for my IRL book group's May meeting, and while there was great potential in that book, it seems that I'm one of the few who really didn't care for it.

Today while I'm waiting for my dog at the vet, I'll be starting No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War by Hiroo Onoda.

Old Flames by John Lawton

Inspector Troy #2, probably best to read the series in order. It's 1956 in Britain, Khrushchev is coming to visit and there seem to be crooks and spies everywhere, some alive and some not. Complicated plot, confusing cast of characters and only partially decipherable British slang. But it's worth staying with it -- very fine mystery/spy story I enjoyed very much -- 4 stars.

I finished my 47th book

Nancy wrote: "Yesterday I finished reading Night Over Fitch's Pond by Cora Jarrett (1933). Very different in that at the beginning, a death has already happened and the narrator is sitting with t..."

Sounds quite interesting!

Gaines wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Yesterday I finished reading Night Over Fitch's Pond by Cora Jarrett (1933). Very different in that at the beginning, a death has already happened and the narrator is ..."

It is, definitely. The beginning is a bit sloggy but once things started taking off, I couldn't stop reading.

I've finished When the Night Ends by M.J. Lee


This series is fast becoming one of my favorites. Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished We Lie Here

Disappointing. My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter. Brilliant book about an angry young man and his journey towards self-acceptance. 4/5

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

Aditya wrote: "

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter. Brilliant book about an angry young man and his journey towards self-acceptance. 4/5

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Oh! I LOVED that book!

In the House in the Dark of the Woods
by Laird Hunt


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

Thanks Barbara and Christine

I just finished Bad Actors

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

Currently reading Plague of Gulls by Stephen Gregory. Since I finally caught up with my library books, I am able to read from my pile of books to the right.



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Well into No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War and really liking it. This morning I was looking around for photos of this guy (the author, Hiroo Onoda), and lo and behold, there's a movie which won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021. I don't know when it will be released here in the US but when that happens, I'm there.

https://le-pacte.com/international/fi...

I just listened to The Girl of his Dreams

Just ok. My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I think readers who enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine are going to enjoy meeting Nita Prose's lovable Molly The Maid. She's a square peg who's much more genuine than most who fit in the round holes of the world.
4★ My review of The Maid

BusiNesswoman and Anatomy of a Murder

Linda wrote: "BusiNesswoman and Anatomy of a Murder"

I started reading Anatomy of a Murder yesterday. So far I'm hooked, but the downside is that I keep seeing the faces of the cast as I go along.

I finished reading No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War yesterday afternoon, after which I discovered that I could buy the 2021 film based on this story in the UK so I did. Should be here Wednesday and I can't wait. Word to the wise: invest in a multi-region, Blu-Ray dvd player ... worth its weight in gold.

The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

Ruth Galloway #2, you should probably read #1 first. In this one Ruth and Detective Nelson are drawn into 2 interwoven cold cases. I really like Griffiths' "Magic Men" series but I'm not sure I'll continue with this series. 3 stars for this book.

I'm thinking takeout tonight ... I want to keep reading Anatomy of a Murder!!

My review of One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips

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

Nancy wrote: "Oh! I LOVED that book!"

It's a great book. I absolutely loved parts of it too, reminded me of British kitchen sink movies about the angry young misfit.

I finished my 48th book

Christine wrote: "I finished my 48th book"

I'm still poking along in the 20s. We're home through my birthday though, so I should be able to get some reading done before we go away again in November.