The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Barbara wrote: I like this series. I hope I get the book from Netgalley.

Good luck!

I really enjoy the series, too. I was so happy when a new publisher picked it up.

The Hindenburg Murders by Max Allan Collins

The famous mystery author Leslie Charteris takes passage on the tragic flight of the zeppelin Hindenburg in 1937 and finds a great deal more than he bargained for. I found this book very well done, extremely interesting and exciting. I really liked it, 4 stars.

Mark wrote: "I'm finishing out the week with The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Hope you enjoy it. This was an early stand alone traditional mystery of Hillerman's that I thought was good.

CB Retriever wrote: I love the last three posts: by putting a bit of information about the book, they encourage me to look further and maybe to read their reviews. I, unfortunately, tend to skip right by all the posts that say I read X book and here's my review

I am with you on this one!

Also I LOVE Grandma Mazur as well. When she was truly introduced in the second in the series, I was enchanted by her character and hooted out loud often over her antics or comments!

I recently finished Blood Will Have Blood by Linda Barnes. 2.5 stars. This was her 1982 debut of a series featuring part-time actor and former sleuth Mickey Spraggue. Set in the theater world someone is playing "pranks" that are sabotaging the rehearsals of a new Dracula play. Mickey is brought in to track down the "jokester". Easy read.
I read the 2nd in the series quite sometime ago and as I recall it was an improvement on this first effort.

Chris wrote: "Mark wrote: "I'm finishing out the week with The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Hope you enjoy it. This ..."

I did enjoy it. There are some very dated things since it came out in 1971, but there are a couple of edge of your seat scenes.

I actually had most of today to read, so I finished shed Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto. I thought I'd figured it out midway through, but I was dead wrong. Awesome mystery, which begins with the husband of a newlywed woman going off for a business trip right after the honeymoon and never retuning. I was, as always, happy to be wrong with my guess of the killer. Watching the film now, translated in English as Zero Focus and streaming on Criterion.

My review of The Coldest Case by Martin Walker

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

💫💫💫💫💫and if I could give it more stars, I would!
If I Should Lose You by Natasha Lester https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

An addictive read I finished in less than 24 hours!
Sanctuary by Garry Disher ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Really liked 4 of the 6 in this sampler, and I was on the fence about a 5th one, so quite a good sample of soon-to-be-published mysteries!

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 11: New Books to Make Your Heart Race

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

3 Stars for the SIN EATER: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review of Stalker on the Fens by Joy Ellis

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

The Altering Machine

⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
Read as an ARC. #booksirens
Sci-fi thriller

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

12.21 by Dustin Thomason

A prion disease epidemic, which originated in Guatemala, threatens Los Angeles, and possibly the world.

Good medical thriller with fascinating bits about Mayan culture. 4 stars

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

Table for Two is a mixed bag, but the novella, Eve in Hollywood, definitely is a mystery. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review of Aunt Bessie Provides by Diana Xarissa

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

“A lot of people who aren’t Native don’t know this story,“ said Pulitzer Prize winner Tommy Orange about his second book, Wandering Stars. Now there's no excuse for not knowing about the Florida prisons and boarding schools where the Southern Cheyenne were sent.
My review of Wandering Stars

I finished my 41st book

Christine wrote: "I finished my 35th book"

Moving right along Christine. 🙂

The President's Lawyer by Lawrence Robbins

In this legal thriller, a one-term former president is arrested for murdering a lawyer he'd been having an affair with.

The author is a Washington D.C. lawyer, so the book has an authentic vibe. 3 stars

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

From Hell

⭐⭐⭐ stars

#audible #sci-fi #creaturefeature #thriller
Love the author and his books but this the #8 th book in the series has been the weakest so far considering there are a couple of novellas in between too.
#awesome concept and start. Slows down in between.

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

What a delightful romp Isabel Allende has written for Amazon Original Stories! Lovers at the Museum has an irritable cop, impulsive lovers, and a magical museum experience.
My review of Lovers at the Museum (with a picture of the fantastical Guggenheim Bilbao)

The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Cool Breeze on the Underground is somewhat dated but still fun. My four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Make Me by Lee Child

Jack Reacher helps a private detective search for her missing business partner in this action-filled story.

Reacher is as tough as ever, which is my favorite thing about this series. 3 stars

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

I read two kindle books: A Night at the Tropicana. My 4 star review for a sweet, short story https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Then Last Dance
It is book 16 in a legal thriller series. My 3.5star review rounded up https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished the fifth Philip Marlowe book


The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

I'm starting out the week with An Orphan of Hell's Kitchen by Liz Freeland.

It was nice to connect with the characters again, but the pacing could have been much better.

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

My review of The Canal Murders by J.R. Ellis

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

Although it deals with some dark themes, this is a fun Regency romance filled with swashbuckling adventure.

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman

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

Between Two Trailers by J. Dana Trent

In this memoir, Baptist Minister and college professor J. Dana Trent writes about her dysfunctional upbringing with a schizophrenic drug lord father and a narcissistic difficult mother.

In the end it's an inspirational story. 4 stars

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

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben AAronovitch

Rivers of London #9. Peter is faced with what may be the Angel of Death. Or maybe it's just a lady upset about having been locked up for 2 or 3 hundred years. In case you're not aware, the Rivers of London series is a modern English police procedural in a world where magic is real. I love the series and this volume is absolutely wonderful. Exciting, funny, baffling, you name it. Great characters and dialogue. And the plot never slows down. One of the best in the series, 5 stars.

I finished my 40th book

I’m reading Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea! Has anyone read it? If so,what did you think 🤔

The Age of Discovery: The Travels and Adventures of Marco Polo Throughout China and the Mongol Empire, Volume I

⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
#non-fiction #historical #mongol #silkroute #marcopolo
Well researched book.

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

The Frozen River combines historical fiction with a good murder mystery. My five star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

3/5 stars

Coming out April 16, 2024

Please read my review linked below:

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

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

'Space sickness' is affecting people working on distant planets, and a psychologist is sent to counsel the space crews. Once the doctor arrives, scary things start happening.

Pretty good sci-fi horror novel. 3.5 stars

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

I got to reconnect with Jack Prester in Yosemite by Sandy Dengler.

In this book, Jack is trying to keep 3 CPAs safe in the wilderness of Yosemite from the assassins trying to kill them before they can testify at a trial. A slow burn thriller that is hard to put down.

Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Happy Publication Day!
A Clock Stopped Dead by J.M. Hall ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams

Bettie Page (2017) #1
⭐⭐⭐ stars
Graphic novel
Spoof series fun
Pin-up

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

Groucho Marx, Master Detective by Ron Goulart

Hollywood, 1937. A beautiful young starlet is dead. The cops say suicide but her previous boyfriend Groucho Marx says it must be murder. Very cute easy to read mystery with lots of humor -- maybe a bit too much. 3 stars.

My Other Husband

I finished A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray


An entertaining read: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story by Peter James


A very good addition to the Roy Grace series: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review of The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

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

After enjoying Alice Hunter's debut thriller The Serial Killer’s Wife, I was disappointed by her new psychological thriller Bad Apple

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