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[Carolien]

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding is new to me. I've updated my running list of female crime authors here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Carolien wrote: "Elisabeth Sanxay Holding is new to me. I've updated my running list of female crime authors here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Great post on that list of female crime authors. I have entered a hyperlink into my spreadsheet of reading a woman author for every year of the 20th Century.

[Marwan]

Currently reading The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

[ShanDizzy]

Marwan wrote: "Currently reading The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey"

Marwan, that's a great read! I enjoyed it immensely.

[Judy]

I also thought The Franchise Affair was really good, though my absolute favourite by Tey is Brat Farrar.

[Susan]

I am reading two review books The Way of All Flesh (historical mystery) and The Killer You Know (a debut novel). Both very good so far.

[Tara]

Continuing my traipse through the alphabet, I just started L is for Lawless . I really appreciate Kinsey Milhone's brash, independent streak, and I can see a little bit of myself in her.

[Jill]

Finished The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Now reading Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson Also reading Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories by Peter Robinson

[Lorraine]

I'm reading An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena and loving it. So far I've gotten to the first murder at the snowbound inn.

[Gary]

About to start The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Gary wrote: "About to start The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout"

I enjoyed that one!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I started The Salaryman's Wife and am enjoying it so far.

[Christmas Carol ꧁꧂]

Tara wrote: "Continuing my traipse through the alphabet, I just started L is for Lawless. I really appreciate Kinsey Milhone's brash, independent streak, and I c..."

That was my favourite of the Kinsey books.

[Susan]

Lorraine wrote: "I'm reading An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena and loving it. So far I've gotten to the first murder at the snowbound inn."

I LOVED that, Lorraine. A really good read - great ending too, but I won't give spoilers :)

[Tara]

Carol ꧁꧂ wrote: "Tara wrote: "Continuing my traipse through the alphabet, I just started L is for Lawless. I really appreciate Kinsey Milhone's brash, independent st..."

Sometimes the stories overlap in my mind, but this one has element of humor that stands out to me.

[Pamela]

I was getting a bit bogged down in Lament for a Maker, so I've put it aside for something lighter, and am reading A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder which is good fun and The Man Who Died (part mystery, part thriller, part black comedy).

[Carolien]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I started The Salaryman's Wife and am enjoying it so far."

On my pile. Would like to know what you think.

I enjoy her blog posts at Murder is Everywhere http://murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com/

[Carolien]

Tara wrote: "Continuing my traipse through the alphabet, I just started L is for Lawless. I really appreciate Kinsey Milhone's brash, independent streak, and I c..."

This is one of the my favourites in the series. Q probably is my all time favourite.

[Susan]

Carolien wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I started The Salaryman's Wife and am enjoying it so far."

On my pile. Would like to know what you think.

I enjoy her blog posts at Murder is Everywhere h..."

The Salaryman's Wife looks good, but is sadly not on kindle in the UK. I see she is the author of The Widows of Malabar Hill so I must check out her blog. Thanks, Carolien.

[Lady Clementina]

Susan wrote: "Carolien wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I started The Salaryman's Wife and am enjoying it so far."

On my pile. Would like to know what you think.

I enjoy her blog posts at Murde..."

My copy of the Widows (alt title: A Murder on Malabar Hill) is here so am looking forward to that read.

[Susan]

Me too, Lady :) Lots of great reads stretching ahead of us.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I finished The Salaryman's Wife in which I was entertained. My review.

[Carolien]

I've finished The Death of a Mafia Don which I enjoyed. It is very detailed on the police procedural side and the cast of characters is vast, but I enjoy this series.

[Bruce]

Rereading The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I don't know how to put the link in these.

[Susan]

Links are not really important, Bruce. However, if you do want to use them - when you are typing in the comment box, you can see three things above you: comment (left hand side), 'add book/author' on the right and (some html is ok) on far right. If you click on the add book/author link, you can look up a book by either link, or cover, or look up an author. Then, if you want to add the link, you just press 'add.' I never even noticed these words above, until someone pointed them out :)

[Bruce]

Thank you Susan. I don't see it on mine. Must be because I'm using the app.

[Susan]

Maybe. I used the app while I was on holiday and I found it really difficult to negotiate. Glad to be back on my laptop!

[Sue]

Bruce wrote: "Thank you Susan. I don't see it on mine. Must be because I'm using the app."

Yes I think you're right Bruce - those buttons don't appear on the app. The other button that's missing is the one to reply to a particular post. You can only add a comment to the thread generally rather than being able to attach it to someone else's comment. I find that a real nuisance, especially in a busy thread where it might not be clear who I'm 'talking' to.

Still, I'm grateful there is an app at all, even if it's only of limited use!

[Annabel]

I've just read Ashes of London and The Division Bell Mystery on holiday. Division Bell is one of those Golden Age reprints - interesting because it was written by one of the earliest women MPs. The House of Commons setting is fascinating and it's a reasonable mystery, but the characterisation could have done with improvement.

Ashes of London was excellent. (And I love the cover.) It reminded me a lot of Wolf Hall but with far less literary flourishes so it moved along at a much faster pace. (Not knocking Wolf Hall, which I also love, but sometimes you want literary flourishes and sometimes you want a fast-paced mystery!) There's a sequel now, which I'm also intending to read. I was worried it would be too gruesome (historical things often are) but it wasn't too bad.

[Susan]

Both sound interesting, thanks Annabel. I hope you had a lovely holiday too :)

[Annabel]

Thanks, Susan. I was in Tuscany so I also dutifully re-read A Room With A View and found my opinion of it hadn't really changed from the last few readings. I love the witty observations about gentlemen who don't thoroughly realise, etc, but the anguished introspection of the characters about simple things like whether they like one young man or another starts to irritate me after a while.

[Susan]

Sounds lovely, Annabel. The Division Bell Mystery is certainly one I want to read.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Bruce wrote: "Thank you Susan. I don't see it on mine. Must be because I'm using the app."

I believe you can switch to full version. At least I have been told so by others using the mobile. I don't have a cell, so have never seen the app.

[Susan]

You used to be able to switch to the full version, Elizabeth. Recently, using my kindle fire on holiday, I was unable to do so - although that may have been me, being useless...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I thought a Kindle Fire was a tablet, but I have been given to understand the Silk browser is a problem.

[Susan]

Maybe, I don't know. When I went on holiday last year, my Fire wouldn't do anything. At least it made an effort this year and connected to the Wi-Fi...

[Kirsten]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I thought a Kindle Fire was a tablet, but I have been given to understand the Silk browser is a problem."

You can get the app for the Kindle. The Silk browser seems to work alright for me. I just prefer using the pc for Goodreads.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Kirsten wrote: " I just prefer using the pc for Goodreads. "

I don't have anything *but* a PC. It's nice to have a fully functioning internet, and a phone is still a phone.

[Marwan]

Started reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Marwan wrote: "Started reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins"

I think that is my favorite of those of his that I've read.

[Jill]

I really liked it too.

[Tara]

The Woman in White is also very good. I haven't read Moonstone in years, but I have it on my shelves somewhere.

[Tania]

I enjoyed both The Moonstone and The Woman in White. I read them so long ago, I couldn't say which one I preferred.
I'm reading The Tuscan Child, which has been shelved as a mystery, though I think not in a whodunnit sense. Liking it so far.

[Sue]

I read The Moonstone many years ago. I was initially drawn to it because it was said to be the first detective crime mystery, but I enjoyed it in its own right too. I must read it again! I remember it being quite atmospheric.

The Woman in White I only read this year. Again I enjoyed it very much. I found the characters quite believable and interesting. The plot relied a fair bit on coincidence but I chose to ignore that and enjoy the twists and turns!

[Lady Clementina]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Marwan wrote: "Started reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins"

I think that is my favorite of those of his that I've read."

Mine too- I liked it better than Woman in White though there are those who feel teh other way around. I love that in most of Collins' books there are strong female characters.

[Annabel]

I can never choose between the WiW and The Moonstone, both wonderful. I've never got on with any others by Collins though. Perhaps I haven't tried hard enough. Are these two the best or are there others?

[Judy]

I think No Name and Armadale are both good by Collins, though it is many years since I read them.

[Rosina]

I listened to The Two Destinies (because it was read by Samuel West). I didn't enjoy it - in order to achieve the pre-destined end everyone had to behave really stupidly ...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Judy wrote: "I think No Name and Armadale are both good by Collins, though it is many years since I read them."

I have not read No Name, but I did enjoy Armadale. I hope to read more of Wilkie Collins, but then there is a lot of reading for which I hope.

[Jill]

Have added both of those to my to read list. I read A House to Let which was Dickens with chapters by Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter that I found entertaining.

I preferred Moonstone to Woman in White also.