Sandy’s Comments (group member since Dec 14, 2015)

Sandy’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

I own, and haven't read, Suicide Excepted, so will participate for that book. Have to check my libraries for Sportsman.

Susan in NC wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Susan in NC wrote: "Started reading Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan, a new-to-me historical mystery series about the first woman police dete..."

I liked that series and miss 'Chubby'. He introduced me to butter chicken.

Susan in NC wrote: "Started reading Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan, a new-to-me historical mystery series about the first woman police detective in post-Partition India, 195..."

I've been reading the series as the books come out. I certainly learned a lot about the partition of India / Pakistan. Not a good time for either side.

I found the plot confusing but loved the three main characters and their interactions. Italian politics are much the same as in the Donna Leon series.

Another Flavia and, as I'm listening, I noticed they have different pronunciations. Falco's daughter is also Flavia and she can break the tie.

I enjoyed this one particularly for the family interactions. There is only one more in the series and Flavia's life is settling.

Jackie wrote: "I just started The Clutter Corpse but I'm more than halfway through, so a fast read. I liked my first book by Simon Brett so much, I thought I'd try another."

I have meant to try Brett for quite awhile so when I saw a new series sitting on my library shelf, I picked it up. Breezed through them but still haven't started his others. Enjoy.

In the US, All the Queen's Men for $3. A fun series.

Piyangie wrote: "I voted for The Daughter of Time. The premise intrigues me. I've not read any of the series, and this is the fifth. Is this a series to be read in order?"

I can't remember any benefit to reading in order. Daughter of Time was the first I read and is quite different from the others in the series. Good book.

Jill wrote: "I think Susan saying we would read Murder In The Basement anyway as a buddy read ,sort of wiped it out of the vote"

Thanks for the reminder ...

Rosina wrote: "Timothy West reading Trollope - both the Barchester novels, and the Pallisers, as well as some stand-alones like The Way We Live Now, really is superb!"

I found Audible in the US has many Trollope's books available for free, narrated by Timothy West. Hours and hours and hours of listening!

Craftyhj wrote: "I think audio may be the way for me when it comes to Dickens. I listened to Gulliver's Travels last year and I don't think I would have waded through it all on paper."

I agree; that was how I was reading Bleak House.

Pamela wrote: "I loved this from the outset and I think it was one of my favourites despite covering such a lot of ground in such a bizarre way! I really liked the fairy tale beginning with Olive and Bobby going ..."

I wonder if he will? There are a lot of books in the series.

P.S. It may be because I was forced to read David Copperfield in school, but I do NOT remember it fondly.

I started Bleak House recently (sometime in the last three years) and was surprised that I liked it but is fell by the wayside as shorter books called. I will have to start all over if I pick it up again.

I am reading two mysteries starring religious figures who couldn't be more different. One is our next Cadfael. The other is Scorched Grace.

The characters are the similar in that they both had decidedly non-monastic lives before their current conversion.

Sarah wrote: "Just returned from the library with my haul of 4 mysteries and 1 DVD (The Brokenwood Mysteries, series 8), and will start with Cynthia Harrod–Eagles latest Bill Slider, "Before I Sleep." I love her..."

Re Antti Tuomainen, I haven't read any but my 'significant other' recommends Little Siberia and has borrowed Palm Beach Finland currently.

So sad. I hope someone will continue Dean Street Press. And, to continue in the same depressing thread, I heard Christopher Fowler died a week or so ago. His death was expected, but still sad.

In the US: Ask a Policeman by the Detective Club and The Skull Beneath the Skin, the first, or half, of P D James' Cordelia Grey series. They are each $2.

I've started our latest Cadfael, The Hermit of Eyton Forest for our upcoming buddy read.