Voting Completed - Nov / Dec 2013 Group Read

[Bill]

The two winners for the Nov/ Dec Group Read are The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime and Into the Darkest Corner. The treads for both discussions will be up by 15 Nov. Thank you to everyone who voted, you made it very interesting.

Wow, time is flying past this year. Maybe it's a sign of my increasing old age. :0). I hope everyone is enjoying the Oct/ Nov Group Reads, but maybe you can take a few minutes from your reading to nominate a book for the next Group Read. Just please read the rules we ask you to follow in making your nominations.

Nominations will be open until November 2nd and voting will take place from Nov 3 until November 11. Please read rules below -

General rules for Group Reads

1) If your nomination wins - you will be the discussion moderator.

2) One (1) nomination only per person. Neither self-nominations by authors nor nominations by their respective publishers or publicist will be accepted.

3) Do not cheat or manipulate results. It is not acceptable to create fake accounts to nominate books or vote in polls and it is not acceptable to invite people to the site for the sole purpose of nominating a book or voting for a book in a poll. It is not acceptable to ask for votes or influence the poll in any way. If the moderators feel that a group read poll has been manipulated, the book in question will be disqualified. If the moderators feel that the user(s) are fake accounts, these will be reported to Goodreads for further review.

4) Please do not repeat an author we have read in the last year. Check the bookshelves to see the authors we've read in the past year.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

5) For your nomination please include Title, Author and Link (Use the "add book/author" link at the top of the comment box).

6) Since we are an international group, please check to make sure the book is readily available in more than one format. The last thing we want is to nominate a book that no one can get.

7) Finally, a word about series - the joy or bane of a mystery reader's life! Please consider whether the book you are nominating would be best read by someone who has read all the previous books in the series or can be enjoyed by someone new to the series too.

Good luck with your nominations.

[Fiona (Titch)]

FACELESS: A MYSTERY - Dawn Kopman Whidden

[Ryan]

I'd like to nominate Dimebag Bandits, a debut novel by Craig Furchtenicht.

[Tobin]

I would like to nominate The Alienist by Caleb Carr

[[deleted user]]

How about Ken Bruen The Guards

[Abby]

I am currently reading The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders. It is very interesting and I like a lot so far.

[Jan C]

Tobin wrote: "I would like to nominate The Alienist by Caleb Carr"

I think we already read this book, a year or so ago.

[Bill]

Fiona, Ryan - These books only seem to be available in ebook format. Maybe we should wait a while until they might be available in more formats and be more accessible to our members.

Tobin - We have read The Alienist before, but it was over a year ago, so if you want it to remain in the nomination list, that's fine. If you want to nominate a fresher book, plse do so. Thanks.

[Bill]

The Shanghai Murders by David Rotenberg.A great first book in a super series; political intrigue, murder, love... all the good things. :0)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Bill, I'll find another 1 then x

[Barbara]

Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson

First book in the series; Goldy (a caterer) solves mysteries between catering gigs.

[Richard]

The Crucible, by Ruby Barnes, set in Kenya, not too far in the future...

[Paul]

I'll nominate The Raphael Affair, the first novel in Iain Pears Jonathan Argyll series.

[Autumn]

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

[[deleted user]]

Autumn wrote: "The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes"

Good choice. I'm planning to read this soon in any case.

[Ann]

This is a book by my all-time favorite Author. Before Dick Francis became an author, he was a British steeplechase jockey for the Queen of England. He is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1986.
He died on Valentines Day in 2010 at the age of 89. I'd like to remember him by nominating Wild Horses

[Marianne]

Garnethill by Denise Mina

[Ryan]

Bill wrote: "Fiona, Ryan - These books only seem to be available in ebook format. Maybe we should wait a while until they might be available in more formats and be more accessible to our members.

Tobin - We ha..."

Dimebag Bandits is available on paperback too...

[Bill]

Ryan wrote: "Bill wrote: "Fiona, Ryan - These books only seem to be available in ebook format. Maybe we should wait a while until they might be available in more formats and be more accessible to our members.

..."

Thanks Ryan.

[Stephanie]

I nominate First Night of Summer By Landon Parham It is available in all formats.

[Jannene]

Alone by Lisa Gardner is my nomination. Looks like we have never read any of her books.

[Stephen]

I nominate POP. 1280 By Jim Thompson. It was written in 1964, is available in ebook form, audio form and should be available in just about every library. Pop. 1280

[Naynay]

Stephanie wrote: "I nominate First Night of Summer By Landon Parham It is available in all formats."

I was hoping this one would win Oct/Nov! I want my book club to pick it up.

[Matt]

Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes was one of the most suspenseful books that I've read in a while! I think the movie comes out next year.

[[deleted user]]

Paul 'Pezski' wrote: "I'll nominate The Raphael Affair, the first novel in Iain Pears Jonathan Argyll series."

I was going to nominate this, so I'll second it.

[Bill]

We are now closed for nominations. A nice variety of choices for everyone to vote on I think. The poll will be open from Nov 3 until Nov 11. Thanks for your nominations.