The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

I just finished Things We Do in the Dark

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

I read very fast Nancy and I hope you have a good birthday Nancy and I hope you have a good trip in November Nancy

Wow; just wow.

Audition by Ryu Murakami



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

Christine wrote: "I read very fast Nancy and I hope you have a good birthday Nancy and I hope you have a good trip in November Nancy"

Thank you, Christine!! I still have a.couple of months before my birthday, but thank you all the same!! Our November trip is going to be great ... At one point we're snorkeling with reef sharks in Bimini!! 🦈🦈🦈🦈

I just listened to, About Face

I’m losing my faith in this series. My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

No problem Nancy and oh ok Nancy and no problem Nancy and oh that’s cool Nancy and oh that’s cool Nancy

Now starting CITY ON FIRE by Don Winslow, the first book in his new crime fiction trilogy.

Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas

London, 1884. Young and broke, Thomas Llewelyn is hired as assistant to private detective Cyrus Barker. They are soon hired to investigate the murder of a young Jewish man who was killed by crucifixion. Not a cozy, not a copy of Sherlock Holmes. Very well done with great characters and impressive research. I liked it a lot and I'll read more of the series. 4 stars.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blind Justice by David Mark https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I don't know what I am going to read next. No matter what I pick, it's bound to pale in comparison. ❤📚

I read Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
It is a medical mystery/thriller that I strongly recommend to medical mystery and Tess Gerritsen fans. It is a stand alone and not part of the Rizzoli series. It was also her first book. My 4.5 star review rounded down. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I loved the world/s of the characters in Gabrielle Zevin's latest, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. In games, you can get a new life, start over - extra tomorrows. In real life, they struggle like the rest of us.
4.5~5★ My review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Bring Me Back

I tried Reputation by Sarah Vaughn


but unfortunately I only could read 75%. I explain in my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I've finished a great book: Upgrade by Blake Crouch


Here is my five star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I've finished reading Anatomy of a Murder. So very, very good!

I started on my list of poolside reads (or as I call them "peachy beachies") with The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas. It bills itself as "Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca," and I wasn't a huge fan of Mexican Gothic so we'll see how this turns out.

Also on a more serious note, I started a not-beach read, The Slowworm's Song by Andrew Miller while waiting for Werner Herzog's The Twilight World which arrives on the 14th.

Sandy how’s your book going called Blind Justice by David Mark?

Linda I read the book called Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

From William Kent Krueger, his newest Cork O'Connor book, coming out in August, Fox Creek . 5 stars!

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

Finished The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. I gave up after reading the first two stories. Post modern detective fiction which explore identity but does not bother solving the mysteries, it did not work for me. 2/5

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

I finished my 49th book

⭐⭐⭐⭐.3 Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I read The Bride of Almond Tree by Robert Hillman I enjoyed it and recommend it to literary fiction fans. It is a story of love, loneliness and hardship.
My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I included in my review a link to my review of his previous book, both stand alones.

Started reading Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø

Im listening to Bring Me Back

Currently reading The Girl in the Spider's Web (seamless transition from the original Larsson trilogy); Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials (early days yet for this one set in Singapore); A Man's Head (halfway through Maigret #5) and Gorky Park (will start soon)

Finished reading Every Cloak Rolled in Blood

by James Lee Burke

My Review

Jim how’s your book going called Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke?

Sandy how’s your book going called Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton?

Now starting NAME TO A FACE by Robert Goddard, one of his stand alone mystery novels from back in 2006. I have read six of his mystery/thriller novels so far and have yet to be disappointed.

In Cape Disappointment, a cursed legacy is visited upon several generations of women. 3/5 stars

Read my review linked below.

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

Thoroughly enjoyed the first in the Andy Carpenter series, Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt. A legal mystery.

My review of Deep Water by Emma Bamford

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

I finished reading Requiem

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I've finished all the books in Michael Stanley's Detective Kubu series and am reading a collection of short stories about the same characters. I highly recommend this series set in Botswana featuring the Botswana police (mostly Batswana), Bushmen, Chinese and whites (UK & US). Witch doctors feature prominently in several of the books. Also, in book 5, Kubu's trip to New York is hilarious with his reactions to the city.

Finished reading River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

by Candice Millard

My Review

Have you read her The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey? Really good book. I'm looking forward to River of the Gods.

CBRetriever wrote: "I've finished all the books in Michael Stanley's Detective Kubu series and am reading a collection of short stories about the same characters. I highly recommend this series set in ..."

A Carrion Death has been on my TBR list for quite some time now. Please share the name of the collection of short stories you are currently reading. Thanks.

Wayne wrote: "A Carrion Death has been on my TBR list for quite some time now. Please share the name of the collection of short stories you are currently reading. Thanks. "

Detective Kubu Investigates Boxed Set: The Detective Kubu Investigates Collections 1 & 2 and the African Mysteries collection combined

they can be bought as three individual books, but the collection was cheaper when I bought it

CBRetriever wrote: "Wayne wrote: "A Carrion Death has been on my TBR list for quite some time now. Please share the name of the collection of short stories you are currently reading. Thanks. "

[book:Detective Kubu In..."

Thank you CBRetriever. Will add to my hunting list

Wow! Wow! wow! A big recommendation for A Man with One of those Faces

Five big stars! My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished my 50th book

I'm gonna come back on the Kubu compilation- the first part was set in Kubu's world and often featured him or characters from the series. Part two was set in Africa mostly but had no relationship to the Kubu series. Since I only paid $3.99, I'd say it was worth it

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

I wanted to like Three Hours in Paris a lot more than I actually did. It has a great concept, a setting the author knows better than her own hall closet, and a potentially sympathetic heroine. However, plotting and characterization shortfalls make it like being dealt ace-king-queen and drawing a two and six: it could've been so much better but fell way short. That's too bad. Three damp Gitanes.

Read the full review here.

Like the fossil of a primordial bird still evolving from its dinosaur heritage, The 39 Steps is recognizably a new thing (the first spy novel) but it's still hooked to its roots (in this case, the manly adventures of the likes of H. Rider Haggard and his ilk). If you read it, keep in mind that it's 105 years old and has earned its creakiness. In its day it was a pioneering thriller, but its day is past. It's still fun to see where the genre dominated by Fleming, Le Carre, Ludlum, Deighton, and Silva came from. Three mustache twirls.

Read the full review here.

The Moor by Laurie King

Russell and Holmes #4, Best to read #1 first. In this one Russell and Holmes revisit Dartmoor, the site of Baskerville Hall. This one is a disappointment, pretty dull until the last 40-50 pages. I doubt I'll continue reading the series.

I'm reading A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. So far it's completely off the wall. I found out in the intro (which I should not have read until I finished) that Robert Bloch wrote a screenplay for a movie adaptation that respected the novel, but that ultimately the powers that be rejected it in favor of what would eventually become a movie called "The Killer Bees," evidently a horror film that I seemed to have missed. I probably won't be watching it any time soon.

That was a great book. I have Heard (no pun intended…) of the film, and that it’s pretty bad. I think I saw part of it on tv in the 90’s, but didn’t know much about it or the book. The film also changes the time period and detective.

Bruce wrote: "That was a great book. I have Heard (no pun intended…) of the film, and that it’s pretty bad. I think I saw part of it on tv in the 90’s, but didn’t know much about it or the book. The film also ch..."

Oopsie, my error -- It was The Deadly Bees, not Killer Bees. Wrong film. I looked it up: Killer Bees was one of those really bad movies of the week sort of thing from 1974; whereas Deadly Bees was from 1966. The guy who rewrote Bloch's screenplay for the film was Anthony Marriott, who also wrote some of the episodes for the old TV show The Avengers (which I loved). Deadly Bees was also fodder for an MS3TK episode, but I can't seem to find anywhere to watch it.