The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

In Family Business, S.J. Rozan takes the reader back to a New York City that's untouched by Covid-19. News of the day is the death of Big Brother Choi - the leader of an organized crime unit - and its impact on a huge real estate deal. P.I. Lydia Chin gets hired to serve as bodyguard and community advisor to Choi's heir.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4017644183

I just finished Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson It is abook of family secrets and pain, but I could not get invested in it. My review, 3.5 stars rounded up. I struggled with rounding up or down. If you like Kristin Hannah, this has some of the same themes, but not the emotional intensity. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not a thriller or a mystery, but literary fiction.

I'm currently enjoying -

- Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics by Cornell Woolrich
- Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn
- The Complaints by Ian Rankin

Now starting A THOUSAND STEPS, the new hardcover stand-alone novel by T. Jefferson Parker, which is set in Laguna Beach, California back in 1968.

Finished Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished my 7th book

City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman

Psychologist Alex Delaware helps LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate a tricky case.

Good mystery but I was irked by the ending. 3 stars

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

Hi all. Nice to meet yous :-) I'm new to this group, and almost completely new to the genre(s). I watch a lot of crime and mystery TV shows these days, especially UK-based ones, so I imagine I'll eventually try reading a novel in the genre.

The vast majority of what I've been reading over the past few decades has been sci-fi and fantasy, though occasionally I'll wander into a different genre. To be fair, some of the stories I've read in those genres are mysteries, or at least have some mystery elements; they are simply set in more speculative worlds (and some people would argue that such stories therefore do not fit the definition of "real" sci-fi or fantasy). But anyway, my current read is The Eye of the World, which had been on my to-read list since I worked in bookstores many years ago (I lost count of how many customers told me I "had to read" this series). I'd like to finish at least this first volume before I watch the show that recently came out.

Anywho, thank you for having me, and nice to meet you :-)

Gaines wrote: "Hi all. Nice to meet yous :-) I'm new to this group, and almost completely new to the genre(s). I watch a lot of crime and mystery TV shows these days, especially UK-based ones, so I imagine I'll e..."

I'm so happy you've made your way to our group!!

Nancy wrote: "I'm so happy you've made your way to our group!!"

Thank you Nancy :-)

Listening to Autopsy and reading The Thursday Murder Club

Late last night I started reading Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe , who also wrote one of my favorite books, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.

I'm reading One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and listening to Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Kirsten wrote: "I'm reading One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and listening to Wolf Hall by [author:Hi..."

I loved Wolf Hall.

It's SO good. I can't believe it took me this long to tackle it.

read the rest of the books in the series - they're equally as good

The First 3 Miss Marple Mysteries: The Murder at the Vicarage / The Body in the Library / The Moving Finger

Yay! Love Dame Agatha, Carol. May I suggest The Secret Adversary? I feel that Tommy and Tuppence don't get as much love as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

I just finished Sea Storm

Fun, entertaining thriller. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

For those that want some humor with their mystery.

Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished:


No One Will Miss Her

by: Kat Rosenfield

Somewhat far-fetched, but unpredictable and puzzling. My full
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Carol wrote: "The First 3 Miss Marple Mysteries: The Murder at the Vicarage / The Body in the Library / The Moving Finger"

Christie's books are always fun. 🙂

Set aside Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler -- good reading, but bulky to haul back and forth to work. Now about to begin, Golden Age Detective Stories ed. by Otto Penzler.

Easter Bonnet Murder by Leslie Meier

Journalist/amateur sleuth Lucy Stone searches for a missing woman.

Entertaining cozy mystery. 3 stars

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

The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield

In this novel, Apollo 18 - America's last planned manned flight to the moon in 1973 - has a lot of surprises.

Good book by former astronaut Chris Hadfield. 4 stars

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

Gaines wrote: "Hi all. Nice to meet yous :-) I'm new to this group, and almost completely new to the genre(s). I watch a lot of crime and mystery TV shows these days, especially UK-based ones, so I imagine I'll e..."

Hi Gaines, welcome. This is exactly how I ended up here on GR too! I've been reading a lot of SF, not so much fantasy, but then I turned to thrillers and I'm absolutely loving to be part of this community!

I've finished Something to Hide by Elisabeth George


You can find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also finished The Key In The Lock by Beth Underdown


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

Finished reading Heartbreak Bay

by Rachel Caine

My Review

Jannelies wrote: "I've finished Something to Hide by Elisabeth George


You can find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also fin..."

It's so hard to imagine that Something to Hide is her 21st mystery! She's been at this for a long, long time.

I'm still working on Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.

If the Dead Rise Not by Phillip Kerr

Bernie Gunther #6, probably best to read the series in order or at least read the first one first. Takes place half in Berlin 1934 and half in Havana 1954 as Bernie goes about the dirty business of staying alive and also doing a little good. In 1934 Bernie is working as security in the famous Hotel Adlon and encounters a beautiful Jewish American writer and an American gangster working with the Nazis to prevent an American boycott of the 1936 Olympics. And having survived the war Bernie again encounters them in Batista's Cuba of 1954. Kerr's series is great historical mystery writing -- the series is highly recommended.

I only post books read in the Mystery, Crime, Thriller genres in this thread and they are usually a lot of my go-to reads, so I'm surprised to find that I have only read one in this new year!!!

Just finished Hunting Season by Nevada Barr. #10 in her Anna Pigeon series. Anna returns to the Natchez Trace Parkway and quickly is up to her neck in mysteries. 3 stars.

I also read Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. The serialized story that inspired Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. It is a short quick read and worth the read just to see where Stoker drew some of his ideas from.

I'm working my way through the Anna Pigeon books myself and am on #11 = Flashback

Now working my way through FAMILY BUSINESS the latest hardcover release in the Lydia Chin / Bill Smith series written by S.J. Rozan. I'm really glad she brought Lydia and Bill back after a long hiatus.

Nancy wrote: "Jannelies wrote: "I've finished Something to Hide by Elisabeth George


You can find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

Im amazed too. After a point doesn't it grt a bit much?? I wonder how Havers and Lynley fared??

Finished
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke


The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Jeffery Deaver's short story, Captivated, is a prequel to his Colter Shaw series. Shaw is using some old-school tactics - actual maps and interviews - to find a missing wife.
3.5★ Link to my review of Captivated

I loved Aussie author Christian White's latest novel Wild Place. The local Neighbourhood Watch group gets a little too active during the 1989 Christmas holidays when a teen disappears.
5★ Link to my Wild Place review

Just finished The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4488132728

CBRetriever wrote: "I'm working my way through the Anna Pigeon books myself and am on #11 = Flashback"

I find the series uneven but overall enjoy them.

I finished my 8th book

Currently devouring...House of Leaves

Perysh wrote: "Currently devouring...House of Leaves"

I loved that book.

Just finished The Bourne Identity, A four star read

I've finished Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. As usual, Patrick Radden Keefe did an excellent job.

Read The Left-Handed Twin
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished , which was, to no surprise, amazing.

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