The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Finished with The Taken. This is one series I'm sorry I found at the very beginning. I want the next one now. :(

Started No Trace: A Brock and Kolla Mystery.

Hi K.B. I read The Marx Sisters, which I think is the first in the Brock and Kolla series, some time ago and I remember really enjoying it. I have 2 more in the series in the mountain that is the TBR pile. If I remember correctly the descriptions of London are particularly good along with a good mystery.

Donna wrote: "Hi K.B. I read The Marx Sisters, which I think is the first in the Brock and Kolla series, some time ago and I remember really enjoying it. I have 2 more in the series in the mountain..."

Donna, I liked The Marx Sisters too. I don't see his books often, so I have to be patient and take what the library can get for me.

i take my maitland when i can get them. think i am working on for my enemies. loved the marx sisters. couldn't stand all this talk about the calling. had to start reading this morning.

Enjoy it, Jan.

You people and all your Marx Sisters talk! Once I read the description at the link I had to go immediately to my library web site and reserve it.

Ooh, I love being a bad influence!

Me too!

All done with No Trace: A Brock and Kolla Mystery. At some point or another, I was certain the guilty parties were guilty, but I was also sure some of the innocent ones were too. I just love it when an author can keep tricking you yet still give you all the necessary clues. 4 stars.

Finished The Steam Pig: A Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi Investigation by James McClure. This book has been out of print and this is a new release. I enjoyed the book but did have a bit of trouble with some of the slang and cultural references but it was an interesting look at apartheid South Africa.

About half way through with The Chill. Someone mentioned it recently and it sounded so good that I had the library transfer a copy. I'm not disappointed. But I can't imagine how I managed to not know about Lew Archer before now. I love Raymond Chandler and Hammett Dashiell, so how did I miss Ross MacDonald? Well, I'll be making up for that now!

Just started reading Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly. Enjoying it so far.. but it's still too early to tell :)

I've started reading The Exile Way: A Mystery of Ancient Japan by Ann Woodward. So far it's dull.

Just started Diamonds for the Dead and so far it's entertaining.

K.B. wrote: "Vince wrote: "Dorie wrote: "See what you started Vince? :-D"

Moi? I never heard of it before I joined GR! :-)"

And aren't you glad you've heard of it now? I'm about half way through with [boo..."

I might have to bump that up the list, need to catch up w/2 other series first.

just finised reading @nd Chance by james Patterson. I great book well worth reading

I've just started The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases. I don't normally read nonfiction, but this sounded too fascinating to pass up.

Dorie wrote: "I've just started The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases. I don't normally read nonfiction, but this sounded too fascin..."

On my list for the year, as well.

Almost done listening to Never Wave Goodbye must say I'm quite enjoying it. The narrator is a little hit or miss on this title, but the story more than makes up for it.

Just finished Citizen Vince.
Next-In the Woods

Jason wrote: "Almost done listening to Never Wave Goodbye must say I'm quite enjoying it. The narrator is a little hit or miss on this title, but the sto..."

Wow, I read the blurb on this and it sounds very good! If I didn't have about 25 books out from the library I would request it. I'll put it on my "wish list".

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Jason wrote: "Almost done listening to Never Wave Goodbye must say I'm quite enjoying it. The narrator is a little hit or miss on this titl..."

One more TBR. Looks tense.

@Carol and Vince - It must say there is a good suspense element to it.
I'd love to hear your thoughts if you do get a chance to read it.

Jason wrote: "@Carol and Vince - It must say there is a good suspense element to it.
I'd love to hear your thoughts if you do get a chance to read it."

It may take a while to get to, but it looks like a page-turner.

I finished Death of a Travelling Man by M.C. Beaton, a Hamish Macbeth mystery. It's was okay, the usual Macbeth type of story.

have gone back to jeff lindsay dexter books, stopped and read other things and decided should finish to series so far. Have realised how much i missed Dexter, such a great character and idea, and wonderful dark witty writing. As you can see am loving Dexter in the Dark, will now continue and finish the other 2 so will at last be up to date.

JF: Known to Evil - Walter Mosley

NL: The Passage -- Justin Cronin

NR: The Pure in Heart -- Susan Hill

I just finished Seize the Day.

Close to finishing Break No Bones

Currently reading "The Black Angel" by John Connolly, the 5th Parker book. Still have 4 to go, trying to take it slow so I can stretch this out before the 10th one is released next year.

Thanks to several discussions on this list, I picked up the following books for the next few weeks of reading:
Death of an Englishman: A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation
Death in a Serene City
Raven Black
The Red Dahlia
The Blue Cheer: P.I. Frank Johnson Mystery #3
Winter House
Flesh House
One Last Breath

Days of the Dead

Now I just have to figure out which one to read first.

Just finished "F is for Fugitive". Obviously I'm behind in reading this series - just started it about a month ago, but I'm moving through them quickly. I wish I hadn't waited so long!

Jenger wrote: "Just finished "F is for Fugitive". Obviously I'm behind in reading this series - just started it about a month ago, but I'm moving through them quickly. I wish I hadn't waited so long!"

Yeah, this is a great series!

Too lazy to plough back through the entries so I'll ask here Has anyone here read The Passage yet?

Thanks.

I am reading the Nick Drake books the wrong way around. Finished Tutankhamun yesterday and now I'm onto Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead. Not exactly literature but throughly enjoyable if you like your police procedure in sandals.

:O)

I finished Diamonds for the Dead by Alan Orloff. It was overall a good mystery with perhaps one or two uneven patches. It's set in my hometown so it was interesting to see how the author portrayed our town.

Just started The Janus Stone but not very far along yet.

Donna wrote: "Just started The Janus Stone but not very far along yet..."

Okay, I'm soooo jealous of you Donna. It's taking forever for it to be published in the U.S. It's still not due out here until next January.

Hi Dorie, I'm in the US too but I got very, very, lucky - this is an advance readers copy that a friend of mine who works in a bookstore got and gave to me.

Bettie, I'm reading it now and discussing it with some buds over on the M/T Reading Friends group.

Bettie wrote: "Too lazy to plough back through the entries so I'll ask here Has anyone here read The Passage yet?

Thanks.

I am reading the Nick Drake books the wrong way around. Finished [boo..."

You are lucky, Donna! Wish I had friends like that, LOL!

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Bettie, I'm reading it now and discussing it with some buds over on the M/T Reading Friends group.

Bettie wrote: "Too lazy to plough back through the entries so I'll ask here Has anyone here read..."

Thankee Carol - I'll swing by and have a look

:O)

Do you know about bookdepository.com? That's a website where you can order British books.

-SharonM

Dorie wrote: "Donna wrote: "Just started The Janus Stone but not very far along yet..."

Okay, I'm soooo jealous of you Donna. It's taking forever for it to be published in the U.S. It's still not due out he..."

I just finished Damaged by Alex Kava. She is a master at getting you to keep turning the page.

I'm just starting Our Kind of Traitor.

Sharonm wrote: "Do you know about bookdepository.com? That's a website where you can order British books.

-SharonM..."

I do now, woohoo! Thanks, Sharon! I can get Mark Billingham's newest as well...

Discovering The Book Depository this year was one of the greatest things for me. One of the worst for my bank balance though :0)

Finally reading Angels of the Flood...it's been on my to-read list for a long time.

I just finished the action packed read that is Mixed Blood

Reviewed here: http://wp.me/pTRJE-40

I finally started a mystery Wormwood. I really hope that Wormwood is better that the last book. I finished Maskerade which was really a mystery. Granny, Nanny (witches) and Agnes (Maybe a witch) were the sleuths who followed the clues to catch the murderer.

Bettie wrote: "Too lazy to plough back through the entries so I'll ask here Has anyone here read The Passage yet?

Thanks.

I am reading the Nick Drake books the wrong way around. Finished [boo..."

Bettie, I'm trying to read [book:The Passage|6690798], but I keep putting it aside. I think it's well written, but I'm not loving it. And I've read Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, and I did describe it to a friend as being literary. Many times I was swept away by his writing, so I was very forgiving of some of the more boring parts of the book.