J.R.'s comments
(member since Nov 24, 2007)
J.R.'s comments from the mystery lovers group.
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Just getting into 'The Crossing Places,' a new series by Elly Griffiths involving Ruth Galloway, a quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist in Norfolk. Liking it so far.
There are so many good, current British authors--Ruth Rendell (top of the list), P.D. James, Reginald Hill, Val McDermid (okay, Scottish), Simon Beckett, Caroline Graham, John Burdett, Simon Lewis, Andrew Taylor, David Pirie, Michael Robotham, Minette Walters.
Linda wrote: "I'm reading Fire and Ice by JA Jance. I'm less than halfway through and it seems good although I'm having a little difficulty with the way it keeps skipping back and forth between the case being w..."
I'm off to Killer Nashville next week and she's the guest of honor. I've got to confess I've never read any of her books, though.
I've just finished James Swain's The Night Monster. If you're looking for a fast-paced, smoothly-plotted suspense novel I highly recommend this one. It was my first Swain, but it won't be the last.
I just completed Simon Beckett's Written In Bone and recommend it to all who enjoy British mysteries and forensics. (See my review on Amazon).
I've just started The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, a true account of a Victorian murder.
I just finished THE TURNAROUND by George Pelecanos. Highly recommended. This was the first of his I've read. I'll definitely be looking for more.
I'd recommend John Burdett whose Sonchai Jitpleecheap is one of the oddest investigators ever to grace a novel.
There's also Arturo Perez-Reverte, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Caroline Graham on my favorites list.
I'm so old I can't remember whether it was A Study In Scarlet or one of Poe's Dupin stories. I know I read all I could find of both Doyle and Poe, loved Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu tales and devoured all of the Hardy Boys.
I'm currently reading James Lee Burke's Tin Roof Blowdown and have waiting on my desk Elizabeth George's Careless in Red and Ruth Rendell's Not in the Flesh, a Wexford novel.
Then there's my own Corruption's Child, third in the Sticks Hetrick mystery series, which has been garnering good reviews.
It isn't funny like some of the others but here's one that hooked me:
"Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now.”
That's the opening of John Burdett's "Bangkok Haunts," a truly different series featuring a Thai detective who's also a devout Buddhist and a pimp.
Britain's Telegraph has published the above list and I found I've read 29 of the writers named.
I was surprised they neglected to include such premier figures as Charles Willeford, John W. Hall, P.D. James, Anne Perry, Elizabeth George, Ian Rankin, Chester Himes, Geoffrey Household and Harlan Coben, to name a few.
You can access the list at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jht...
Britain's Telegraph has published the above list and I found I've read 29 of the writers named.
I was surprised they neglected to include such premier figures as Charles Willeford, John W. Hall, P.D. James, Anne Perry, Elizabeth George, Ian Rankin, Chester Himes, Geoffrey Household and Harlan Coben, to name a few.
You can access the list at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jht...
Britain's Telegraph has published the above list and I found I've read 29 of the writers named.
I was surprised they neglected to include such premier figures as Charles Willeford, John W. Hall, P.D. James, Anne Perry, Elizabeth George, Ian Rankin, Chester Himes, Geoffrey Household and Harlan Coben, to name a few.
You can access the list at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jht...
Britain's Telegraph has published the above list and I found I've read 29 of the writers named.
I was surprised they neglected to include such premier figures as Charles Willeford, John W. Hall, P.D. James, Anne Perry, Elizabeth George, Ian Rankin, Chester Himes, Geoffrey Household and Harlan Coben, to name a few.
You can access the list at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jht...
Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, Elizabeth George, Ian Rankin, John Burnett, Caroline Graham, Minette Walter, Reginald Hill.
I'd have to say Elizabeth George's Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. She's feisty, opinionated and doesn't give a damn about appearances.
Then, too, I have a tender spot for rookie officer Flora Vastine in my own Sticks Hetrick series.
