Group Rules & How To

[Marshall]

Marshall Chamberlain Hello, Goodreaders. I'm a thriller author dedicated to creating action, suspense and adventure stories that can't be put down. The Apothecary is my most recent release. It's about nano-technology, scientific degeneracy, and insane arrogance!

[Peaches]

Hello everyone! I live in Japan and reading is my passion in life (aside from movies). I guess I joined this group to meet people who love to read as much as I do. :D

[TeijaJ]

Hi everyone! I am new to this group and just wanted to say hello! I am a literature student from Sweden with an addiction to mystery and crime novels, especially British ones. It is nice to see that I am not the only one! :-)

[Sharon]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...

RIP Henning Mankell. I read them all for decades and watched the truly excellent tv series, all versions and all the films with true enjoyment. Thank you for hours of pure reading and watching pleasure and a world view without excuses. RIP

[J.L.]

Hello everyone! I'm new on goodreads and to the group. I enjoy mysteries and crime thrillers from Sherlock Holmes to Spenser, Jack Reacher, Jesse Stone, and the list goes on. I'm looking forward to being part of the discussions.

[J.L.]

Loretta wrote: "J.L. wrote: "Hello everyone! I'm new on goodreads and to the group. I enjoy mysteries and crime thrillers from Sherlock Holmes to Spenser, Jack Reacher, Jesse Stone, and the list goes on. I'm looki..."

Thank you Loretta. I have read all the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randell novels. I was sad there weren't more Sunny books. It all started with Spenser and it is still my favorite RBP series. I hope you enjoy!

[Jeri Dexheimer]

I'm Jeri, I'm new here as of today. I selected this group...but I'm very eclectic in what I read. I love good mystery/crime thrillers...yeah, I know, the term "good" is not particularly useful. I also love "good" courtroom/legal novels -- one of my favorite authors in that genre is Steve Martini. I recently read "Divergent," and loved it, but wanted to switch genres before moving on to the next in the series. Ummmm...I actually deleted a book out of my Kindle a couple of nights ago because I got sooo tired of trying to stick with it until it went somewhere..."The Luckiest Girl Alive." I am crazy about most of Eleanor Lipman's novels....has anyone else here read her? I think she is truly wonderful and fun, and poignant and touching, too. So that's me. I'm in Oregon, for now, with my precious and adored rescue pupper Cliffie...Rescue, Don't Buy!

[Andrea]

Bonjour! My name is Andrea and I was looking for a place where I can get new book suggestions and discuss with like-minded people! Can't wait to get started :)

[Janet]

Welcome, Andrea. Are you from France? Hope everybody is doing okay after the horrible bombing.

[Marion]

Welcome all of you. I too enjoy mysteries and suspense. My favorite authors are: Joy Fielding, Tami Hoag, Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, Karen Rose, Karen Robards, Alex Kava, Linda Castillo, Kevin O'Brien, Dennis Lehane, Robert Crais, David Baldacci, James Grippando, Ruth Rendell, just to name a few.

[Andrea]

I'm actually from Canada :) excited to get to know everyone!

[Steven]

Hello everyone!
I just joined. First a reader, but also an author, I find the preset threads here intriguing because I'm more interested in broadening my reading for 2016 to new authors. In libris libertas (I stole that from some library in SoCal)....
r/Steve Moore

[Steven]

Loretta,
Goodreads always offers new adventures. I'm amazed at the variety here. I don't know why I wasted so many years with Facebook. This is the place to be!
r/Steve

[M.R.]

I am new here and also a new author. I am excited to be here and look forward to all the great books.

[Chris]

Steven wrote: "Loretta,
Goodreads always offers new adventures. I'm amazed at the variety here. I don't know why I wasted so many years with Facebook. This is the place to be!
r/Steve"

Exactly...

[Chris]

M. wrote: "I am new here and also a new author. I am excited to be here and look forward to all the great books."

You'll love it here.

[Anne]

Hi everyone, I'm Anne, live in San Diego. Not by choice!
I love mysteries/thrillers, especially ones by Scandinavian and British authors.
My second-favorite 2 characters are Harry Hole (Jo Nesbo) and John Rebus (Ian Rankin). Lisbeth Salander (Larsson) will always be first.
I vet all my book recommendations through Goodreads, and borrow them from my library.
Looking forward to finding new authors!

[Marion]

Welcome Anne

[Janet]

I should love to live in San Diego by choice. lol. Any lover of Rebus and Ian Rankin is a girl after my own heart. Welcome!

[Chris]

Welcome to the Goodreads family Anne, you'll love it here.

[Steven]

Anne,
When I was reading a lot of mysteries to hone my writing skills for them, I discovered Ian Rankin. Blew my mind. He's become too expensive, so the PL or used book stores are my only choice.
r/Steve

[Terri Lee]

Hi All... I'm an avid reader of many different genres but my favourite is legal/medical mystery, suspense and thriller. I have also done some R & R. I used to be a book a day reader but since I had chemo I'm a bit slower, but I keep on keepin on... I've never read a book I didn't like...

[Pamela]

Terri Lee wrote: "Hi All... I'm an avid reader of many different genres but my favourite is legal/medical mystery, suspense and thriller. I have also done some R & R. I used to be a book a day reader but since I had..."

Welcome to the group, Terri Lee! Was just looking over your read books and we seem to have common interests. Look forward to hearing more from you.

[Pamela]

Janet wrote: "I should love to live in San Diego by choice. lol. Any lover of Rebus and Ian Rankin is a girl after my own heart. Welcome!"

Hi Janet and welcome to the club. I'm another Rebus/Ian Rankin reader. I read most of them one right after the other (because I got a box of them from my cousin) and have been trying to space out the newer ones so that I can enjoy them. All the best!

[T'Gracie]

Hi all! I just joined this group and though an author, love reading first and am looking for a group that supports reading and re-reading books I have loved. Right now I am working my way through William Kent Krueger's series (book three-Purgatory Ridge). Anybody else like Cork O'Conner?

[T'Gracie]

William Kent Kreuger
Annette Dashofy
T'Gracie and Joe Reese

[Manasa]

Hi all! I'm Manasa from India. I'm 19 and I love mysterious stories with a dash of romance in them. I've always liked them. Crime, detective, thriller-yep they constitute my tastes. I'm excited to be a part of this group!

[Steven]

Bryony,
There are so many good books and so many good authors, it's very hard to choose. I've never been able to read all the books I want to read, but Goodreads is probably the best website to learn about new authors.
Manasa,
Most crime, suspense, detective, and thriller stories have some romance depending on how broad your definition is--they're about human strengths and frailities, joys and sorrows, so the romantic elements, characteristic of all human beings, are often present in some way. Some are a teeter-totter between lust and murder (I stole one of my own titles) and some have plots actually driven by romance. It's a broad spectrum--and that's just one genre! We're excited about having you. Goodreads is indeed international!
r/Steve

[Maureen]

Hi! I'm Maureen and I'm new here (this is my first group). Reading is one of my greatest pleasures. I love mysteries, psychological suspense, thrillers both medical and legal, and I'm just becoming interested in cozies. I also read quite a few reformed Christian books, Christian fiction, and biographies.

[Shannon]

Hello everyone. My name is Shannon Maguire and I love reading books and comics. Some of the authors I usually read are James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Tess Gerritson, Janet Evanovich, Dan Brown, and John Grisham. I apologize for probably spelling half those names wrong. My favorite mysteries are series and I'm always on the lookout for new authors to check out. I'm a wannabee author myself and I'm currently working on a humorous mystery novel. I've also been writing an online comic strip for a few years. Obviously, I like humor and am hoping to find a few mystery authors to read who add a little humor to their novels.

[Steven]

Hi Shannon,
Are you familiar with Carl Hiaasen's books? They're hilarious mysteries. As a mystery writer myself, I believe adding a bit of humor even when dealing with serious themes and heinous crimes adds another dimension to a mystery novel.
And welcome aboard.
r/Steve

[Shannon]

Steven wrote: "Hi Shannon,
Are you familiar with Carl Hiaasen's books? They're hilarious mysteries. As a mystery writer myself, I believe adding a bit of humor even when dealing with serious themes and heinous cr..."

Thanks for the welcome and the suggestion Steven. I haven't heard of Carl Hiaasen, but I just checked out the descriptions of a few of his books and it sounds like the kind of thing I'm looking for. I'll definitely have to try one.

[T'Gracie]

I have laughed myself silly over Carl Hiaasen's books! My husband is a pretty funny guy and inserts humor into the books we co-write: The Nina Bannister mystery series. I like to read books in order, too, but the funniest one in the series is Climate Change which is a parody of cozy mystery writers.

[Shannon]

T'Gracie wrote: "I have laughed myself silly over Carl Hiaasen's books! My husband is a pretty funny guy and inserts humor into the books we co-write: The Nina Bannister mystery series. I like to read books in orde..."

Two votes for Carl now, so I'll definitely have to try out one of his novels. That's cool that you and your husband write the books together. My husband and I also work together on an online comic strip. I write them and he does the artwork. He's amazing with art, but definitely not a writer. Every once in awhile I don't get time to type the comic up, so he uses my handwritten notes and always manages to get a typo or spelling mistake in there somewhere. I avoid giving him handwritten notes at all costs. It's nice working together. It gives you a whole other world of things to argue about.

[Steven]

Shannon,
I reviewed a graphic novel (AKA long comic book?) for Bookpleasures once. It was a lot of fun--biting satire in both the art and story. I can't do that.
I generally lose the arguments with my wife. She's smarter than me. But knowing smart, strong women like her has helped me in developing interesting female characters for my novels. She's into bios, though, not fiction, but occasionally I throw Clancy's maxim at her: the problem with fiction is that it has to seem like it's true (that's probably a paraphrase, but it gives the idea).
r/Steve
PS. I thought the best Hiaasen novel was Skinny Dip--best in the sense of most humorous.

[Shannon]

Steven wrote: "Shannon,
I reviewed a graphic novel (AKA long comic book?) for Bookpleasures once. It was a lot of fun--biting satire in both the art and story. I can't do that.
I generally lose the arguments with..."

It's a lot of fun writing comics and completely different from writing novels. There's a lot of information conveyed in the visuals, so it took me awhile to get the hang of that. I love both types of writing, but I have to say that writing comics is more fun. Ironically, I myself read more novels than comics though. The novel I'm working on now is my first one though, so I may change my mind as I write more.

I use my husband to check out my male points of view too. He's shut down a few of my jokes by saying, "men don't worry about stuff like that."

[T'Gracie]

Shannon wrote: "T'Gracie wrote: "I have laughed myself silly over Carl Hiaasen's books! My husband is a pretty funny guy and inserts humor into the books we co-write: The Nina Bannister mystery series. I like to r..."

Steven wrote: "Shannon,
I reviewed a graphic novel (AKA long comic book?) for Bookpleasures once. It was a lot of fun--biting satire in both the art and story. I can't do that.
I generally lose the arguments with..."

Shannon wrote: "T'Gracie wrote: "I have laughed myself silly over Carl Hiaasen's books! My husband is a pretty funny guy and inserts humor into the books we co-write: The Nina Bannister mystery series. I like to r..."

HAHA Shannon about co-writing. My husband never kills them off fast enough, and he says he never knew I was so 'blood-thirsty!' You are correct, though, it does open up worlds for us to explore and talk about.

[Tala]

Hello! My name is Tala and I have just joined this group. I love reading thriller and crime books as such, this year so far I have currently read 21 books and started and finished the James Patterson Women's Murder Club Series. Any recommendations on single books would be much appreciated!

[Shannon]

Tala Lucy wrote: "Hello! My name is Tala and I have just joined this group. I love reading thriller and crime books as such, this year so far I have currently read 21 books and started and finished the James Patters..."

Welcome to the group, Tala. If you like James Patterson, some other books of his that I thought were great are:

- The NYPD Red series
- The Postcard Killers
- The Quickie
- Honeymoon

If you like mystery series like the Women's Murder Club, you might also like the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen.

[Steven]

Tala and Shannon,
Patterson has become too formulaic for my tastes--I stopped reading the Women's Murder Club Series a while ago. Gerritsen became formulaic too, but I like the TV show. Jon Land's Caitlin Strong is featured in an interesting series. Maybe it's more fun to find individual gems than series, but a series allows you to see a character developed (usually). Also, don't forget the female villains. If anything saved Gone Girl, that was it. ;-)
(Self-promo alert.) Most of my books feature strong, smart female characters, in particular Detective Chen (she has an NYPD partner, though) and ex-USN Master-at-Arms and ex-con Mary Jo Melendez (the con-part was due to a frame).
r/Steve

[Van]

Hi i'm Vanessa, I'm new here. I am currently reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn as a recommendation from my cousin who is into psycho/thriller genre. I am more on Courtroom, Crime and Mystery and has started on John Grisham then and Sue Grafton at the moment. I would love to explore more authors since I have read almost until S is for Silence and would be running out of options soon. So I hope I can gather a thing or two from our group. I love reading! :) Thank you.

[Shannon]

Van wrote: "Hi i'm Vanessa, I'm new here. I am currently reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn as a recommendation from my cousin who is into psycho/thriller genre. I am more on Courtroom, Crime and Mystery and..."

Welcome to the group, Vanessa. If you're looking for courtroom thrillers Michael Connelly does a good series about a defense attorney called Mickey Haller also called the Lincoln Lawyer.

[Kelly]

Hi,

I'm Kelly. I love mysteries and crime so much I write them as well. (I'll head on over to the Author Corner in a bit to talk about my book).

I'm pretty eclectic in my reading tastes but always end up going back to a good mystery. I've been into the JD Robb "In Death ...." series the last few years.

My biggest challenge right now, apart from writing the next book, is trying to remember all the books I've read over the years and add them to my Goodreads shelf!

[Kirsten]

Love JD Robb, Kelly! There's a great JD Robb group on Goodreads, did you know? https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[Kelly]

Hey, thanks Kirsten. I've just poodled on over there and joined the group. Really appreciate you letting me know. Kelly

[Kirsten]

Great! You'll have fun! Say hi to Jonetta for me!

[Terry]

Resilient Transitions is a fun fictional book set in the future. Action/adventure with humor. Find it on Amazon.com

[Terry]

Resilient Transitions is a fictional action/adventure with memorable characters set in the future. Available on Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com.

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01LXGVRVV…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/resil...…

[[deleted user]]

Hi, my name is Bob and I’m new to the group. Like many, I got hooked on mysteries in the 1950’s reading the Hardy Boys. I loved Frank and Joe and all the tough spots they got in and out of as teenagers.

The great thing is there are so many authors out there to spend quality time with, going back to Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and working up threw Ross Macdonald and John D. MacDonald, to Robert B. Parker, Lee Child, Steve Hamilton, and James W. Hall, to name a very few.

I’m also drawn to humorous crime writers like Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, and Janet Evanovich. My question is, do any of you recommend others with a similar style as these three?

[Cathy]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "Love JD Robb, Kelly! There's a great JD Robb group on Goodreads, did you know? https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/..."

Thanks for this. I'm a huge JD Robb fan.