The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Nancy wrote: "Wayne wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Wayne wrote: "Just finished The Sheltering Sky , and started The Kill Artist. I am still sorting out my reaction to the first, the second is..."

Nope, in fact I stopped watching tv in 2020, but have decided that I need to tune in again. I have a list of movies and series I want to watch, so might add The Sheltering Sky.

Nancy wrote: "Wayne wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Wayne wrote: "Just finished The Sheltering Sky , and started The Kill Artist. I am still sorting out my reaction to the first, the second is..."

Okay, I give in! This conversation convinced me that it’s a To-Read book and hopefully soon.

The Unholy

My review of Devil House by John Darnielle

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

Just finished by Rachael English

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4541919122

I read The Golden Couple by [author:Greer Hendricks|16935182 I enjoyed it and recommend it to psychological mystery fans. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Read Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished Aussie author Anni Taylor's suspenseful One Last Child (Tallman Valley's Detectives, book 1), which takes place in the beautiful, mysterious Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Complicating things is that one of the abducted children is Detective Kate Wakeland's granddaughter.
4★ My review of One Last Child

I recently finished The Interview by C.M. Ewan


Sadly not my cup of tea. You can find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also finished You Never Said Goodbye by Luca Veste


A lot of violence in this story, but an interesting book. You can find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Furthermore I finished Freckles by Cecilia Ahern


A lovely uplifting story! You can find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished reading Endangered

by C.J. Box

My Review

I finished the sequel to Relic:


Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second Lew Archer book:


The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald

I just finished Nobody Walks

Slow paced but well done. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review of Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

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

Read Beautiful Little Fools
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished Stolen Ones

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

Finished reading Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel and

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan

I finished my 16th book

Christine wrote: "I finished my 16th book"

buzzing right along!!

It's Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan

An older black woman relies on the support of her lifelong friends when she experiences a tragedy in her life.

Author McMillan is good at depicting aging and loss. Lots of humor as well, which lightens the mood. 4 stars

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

Wrapped up The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie the 6th Poirot installment. Enjoyable read.

Just finished We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. Now, I’m reading Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus.

I just finished The Island

Slow, it well though out. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Fifty-Four Pigs: A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery by Philipp Schott

Finished reading Off the Grid

by C.J. Box

My Review

Bill wrote: "Fifty-Four Pigs: A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery by Philipp Schott"

I requested this from Netgalley, so we'll see how that goes.

Koko

Linda wrote: "Koko"

By Peter Straub? Great, scary book.

I set aside Darkness At Dawn for now and picked up Velvet Was the Night. Slow going so far, though maybe more to do with the reader and his time commitments than with the novel.

Listening to the Bitchers Boy.

Barbara wrote: "Bill wrote: "Fifty-Four Pigs: A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery by Philipp Schott"

I requested this fr..."

It's interesting so far.

The Art of War may be the oldest book I've ever read, but it is truly a classic on warfare strategy.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4562831953

The Missing Piece by John Lescroart

Attorney Dismas Hardy gets involved when a released prisoner is murdered.

Good police procedural. 3.5 stars

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

Now starting WEDDING STATION by David Downing. This is a prequel to his six-book WWII thriller “Station” series featuring British-American journalist John Russell, who is fluent in German and other languages and files his stories about the Nazi regime for various newspapers.

This gives Russell the excuse to travel across Europe to see what is happening on the ground. It also makes him a target for recruitment by the OSS, SOE, MI6, KGB, Abwehr, and Gestapo.

The six books in his series are named for the major train stations in Berlin, which play a role in each novel’s plotline.

I enjoyed Downing’s series when I read it some years ago and collected all six novels in hardcover for my permanent library. Glad to see he has returned to it, if only for a prequel.

Falsely Accused by Robert K. Tanenbaum ghostwritten by Michael Gruber

Butch Karp #8, OK to read as a stand-alone. Butch takes up the defense of a friend, falsely accused of malfeasance while his wife Marlene takes up armed defense of abused wives. Wonderful exciting mystery/thriller entry in the Karp series. 5 stars, highly recommended.

back from Seattle now, and for the most part we stayed up way too late with family so believe it or not I got very little reading done. So unlike me, but it's been two years since we saw everyone so I can always catch up.

Finished Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major

Still working on Waiting for the End of the World by RB Russell and because I packed that book by mistake instead of putting it in my carry on, I started another book, Songs of the Northern Seas (ed.) Mark Beech.

Reminiscent of Janet Evanovich, started out well but later plot points either didn't hold together or were just too contrived. Enjoyable but not great.

I finished reading:


The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Plenty of crime in this one.

I finished my 17th book

Finished reading Vicious Circle

by C.J. Box

My Review

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

Christine wrote: "I finished my 17th book"

Nice going Christine. 👍

I just finished Real Tigers and recommend it to anyone that wants some humor in their thrillers. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just started to listen to

My only hiccup with the audiobook so far is that if I were reading a physical book, I could go back and reread some things where the details get a little muddled, if you are driving and not able to listen 100% to the book, sometimes you can get the characters mixed up.

Laura wrote: "Just started to listen to

My only hiccup with the audiobook so far is that if I were reading a physical book, I could go back and reread some things ..."

I'm looking forward to trying this series.

I just finished Pay Dirt Road

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

I've finished Waiting for the End of the World by R.B. Russell. For the longest time I really thought it was going to be a crime novel, but then everything changed. It was one of those BAM books that hits you in the face by the time you figure out what's actually happening.

Currently continuing with Songs of the Northern Seas, published by Egaeus Press; I'm somewhere around the halfway mark and very much enjoying it.

Moving back into the mystery realm with A Puzzle for Fools: A Peter Duluth Mystery by Patrick Quentin. All I can say is that I hope it's better than the other book I read by this author, Puzzle for Players, which actually made me yawn.

Nancy wrote: "I've finished Waiting for the End of the World by R.B. Russell. For the longest time I really thought it was going to be a crime novel, but then everything changed. It was one of th..."

I've heard good things about that one.

Gaines wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I've finished Waiting for the End of the World by R.B. Russell. For the longest time I really thought it was going to be a crime novel, but then everything changed. It..."

Oh yeah!!! At first I'm like "well, this is really good but where are we going?" Then all of a sudden it's like I got smacked in the face and I actually yelled a very loud "wtf!" and it was an entirely different story. I should have known after reading his Ghosts that things were going to take a most unexpected turn.