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[Patrick]

Traditional mysteries in progress:

Christianna Brand, Green for Danger
ECR Lorac, Shroud of Darkness

Hard-boiled / noir:

Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us
Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel

Spy fiction:

Helen MacInnes, The Venetian Affair

I’m enjoying all of them very much.

[Jill]

Patrick our group read for Green for Danger is here
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... and

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

if you would like to look at them

[Patrick]

Jill wrote: "Patrick our group read for Green for Danger is here
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... and

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Thanks! I was aware of that group read, but I have not looked at the posts in a long while.

The movie version of Green for Danger is excellent.

[Gary]

Nearing the end of The Red Box by Rex Stout.

[Marwan]

Started reading The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

[Kirsten]

Just started The Moor by Laurie R King

[Sandy]

Kirsten wrote: "Just started The Moor by Laurie R King"

One of my favorite series that I have ignored for too long.

[Tania]

I'm slowly making my way through The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. A collection of short stories.

[Judy]

I just recently listened to the Christmas Pudding stories read by Hugh Fraser, Tania - a fun collection.

[Susan]

There is a collection of Christie, Christmas stories, entitled The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding for 99p on kindle today.

[Judy]

I'm reading Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout and enjoying it, though I'm not sure how Archie has become a major in the army!

[Kirsten]

I'm reading A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King

[Gary]

Judy wrote: "I'm reading Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout and enjoying it, though I'm not sure how Archie has become a major in the army!"

It was the whole World War II thing.

[Jan C]

I just finished Murder on Wheels, the second Miss Withers story. It was fun.

[Judy]

Gary wrote: "Judy wrote: "I'm reading Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout and enjoying it, though I'm not sure how Archie has become a major in the army!"

It was the whole World War ..."

Yes but it seems quite a high rank for him to achieve in just a few weeks!

[Jill]

Now reading Dead Lions for this month's buddy read. Really enjoying it. Can't help telling people about this series, as a lot of my friends enjoyed Reginald' Hill's Dalziel

[Susan]

I just re-listened to it on Audible. Glad you are spreading the word, Jill!

[Susan in NC]

I’m re-reading Envious Casca with the Georgette Heyer Fans group, always good for some dark, Christmas-themed laughs!

[Lady Clementina]

Susan in NC wrote: "I’m re-reading Envious Casca with the Georgette Heyer Fans group, always good for some dark, Christmas-themed laughs!"

I read that a couple of months back and really enjoyed it, though I did guess whodunit.

[Susan in NC]

Lady Clementina wrote: "Susan in NC wrote: "I’m re-reading Envious Casca with the Georgette Heyer Fans group, always good for some dark, Christmas-themed laughs!"

I read that a couple of months back and really enjoyed it..."

Yes, I had just seen a Sherlock Holmes episode with a similar murder method, and that kind of gave it away for me - but I enjoy Heyer’s wit, such delightfully awful characters!

[Jan C]

Just started Miss Withers #3 by Stuart Palmer - Murder on the Blackboard.

[Annabel]

Lark of The Bookwyrm's Hoard wrote: "I just reread Death and the Dancing Footman and started Colour Scheme, not having realized or remembered that they are the November and December Ngaio Marsh books, respe..."

I reread all (well, most) of the Agatha Christies (also Patricia Wentworth and Mary Stewart) as comfort reads. AC's spy thrillers are a very mixed bag it has to be said but Destination Unknown is probably my favourite - an imaginative premise, if a little implausible, and the characterisation is excellent.

[Tara]

In my quest to read all of her books in order, I am now plunging into O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton. I enjoy that time moves so slowly from book to book, you are almost in a static time warp throughout the series. The audio book narrator has also changed to someone with a less monotone voice, and more lively personality, which makes for interesting listening.

[Susan]

Just a reminder that, should the Christmas preparations get a little much, we have three new Buddy Reads opening next weekend:

An English Murder by Cecil Hare
Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson
Dead Lions by Mick Herron

Hope you will pop in, whether you have read the books or not - everyone is welcome.

[Judy]

I've started Coffin, Scarcely Used for our buddy read and am enjoying it so far - shades of Midsomer Murders!

[Susan]

I am currently reading An English Murder also for our Buddy Read.

[Sandy]

I'm half way thru Dead Lions for one of our December buddy reads. Once again (like Slow Horses) a good opening scene.

[Jess]

I've recently read two mysteries.

A Murder in Time was a fun time travel mystery where a modern FBI agent has to solve a crime back in 19th century England. It was a slow start but I was invested in the end.

The Good Girl was a thriller/suspense abduction mystery. I found it boring until the end where there was a twist that pushed it into a hated book!

[Carolien]

O dear, Jess - that sounds unfortunate.

I'm continuing Louise Penny's series set in Three Pines. Busy with The Cruellest Month. The murder component is interesting, but I'm finding the whole drama about the old case involving a previous police superintendent that was jailed a bit much. Not my favourite in the series, but a good, solid mystery.

[Susan in NC]

I’m continuing with one of my favorite series, Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler.

[Carolien]

I've completed The Cruellest Month, enjoyed the mystery and characters. Will retrieve the next one from my mother's shelf on Sunday.

I'm looking for any mystery set in York or Yorkshire to complete an A-Z location challenge. Anybody got any suggestions? I suppose I can read a Peter Robinson, but not sure I'm in such a gloomy mood.

[Susan]

I haven't read this, but if you want something cosier, Dying In the Wool
Currently 99p

[Judy]

I've read Dying in the Wool, which is the first in a period mystery series set in the 1920s, by Frances Brody - they are quite popular, I believe, but as far as I remember it was rather slow and there was too much detail about the heroine's everyday life for my taste. It was a while ago, though.

Here's a page from the Stop You're Killing Me site with a list of mystery series set in Yorkshire:
https://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Lo...

The only one out of these that I think I've read except for the Frances Brody is Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm, the first in the Sgt Cluff series by Gil North which is a British Library Crime Classics reprint. It was a quick read and well written, but it's really Yorkshire noir, set in a very grim fictional small town, so not at all cosy. Probably just as gloomy as Peter Robinson!

[Carolien]

Judy, thanks so much for the list. Nicholas Rhea is listed whom I have not read before, but I have downloaded some of his books, so I'll give it a try.

[Kirsten]

I'm reading The Moor by Laurie R. King.

[Sandy]

I'm reading The Western Wind which might be considered a mystery (there is a body) and is definitely historical. Excellent. Interesting concept as it is told backwards: day 4, day 3, 2, 1 so I'm not sure I will ever know how it 'ends'.

[Marwan]

Started reading A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin

[Judy]

I've started Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh ready for next month's challenge - enjoying it so far.

[Susan]

I just finished My Sister, the Serial Killer which was good fun and an excellent debut.

[Tania]

I'm reading Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery, which doesn't have great ratings on here, I shan't feel guilty if I decide to set it aside. It is set in my neck of the woods for added interest. I sometimes think the Cotswolds are only marginally less dangerous than Midsummer or Saint Mary's Mead.

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Just finished The Memory by Lucy Dawson. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Next read: For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

[Jill]

I'm reading Candlenight by Phil Rickman which is a sort of horror/paranormal/mystery.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

While on a long day of airports and airplanes, I read Heads You Lose. I think it may have been a group and/or buddy read here some months ago. I plan to continue the series.

[Susan in NC]

I’m listening to a feather light, funny, romantic Christmas reread, The Mischief of the Mistletoe. It’s silly and great to knit along with- one of the great joys of audiobooks!

Next up for me are two recent installments in mystery series I’ve been waiting on at my library, Death Comes to Bath and The Angel in the Glass. Then I’ll continue catching up with the group with Ngaio Marsh and Josephine Tey’s mysteries.

[Judy]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "While on a long day of airports and airplanes, I read Heads You Lose. I think it may have been a group and/or buddy read here some months ago. I plan to continue the series."

Glad to hear you are enjoying Brand, Elizabeth. Yes, we had a buddy read of Heads You Lose last year - here's a link to the general discussion thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And this is the spoiler thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I wasn't a big fan of this one but really enjoyed the second book in the series, Green for Danger, which was another buddy read.

Unfortunately, as I think Susan mentioned in another thread, none of her detective books are on Kindle in the UK. They are getting expensive and hard to track down secondhand - but I have actually just ordered a cheap secondhand copy of the third in the series, Suddenly at His Residence, inspired by your comment!

[Ruth]

Carolien wrote: "Frances wrote: "I just finished the 4th Jackson Brodie Started Early, Took My Dog, and am devastated to learn there isn’t a 5th one (yet! I hope)."

Brilliant series. Would love some..."

Just seen that the fifth one in the Jackson Brodie series is coming out next year - called Big Sky. I'm so excited as I really thought there wouldn't be any more!

[Sandy]

I am reading a The Warrielaw Jewel, which I had lurking on my kindle and it is very good. The standard dysfunctional family with unusual inheritance provisions, narrated by an informed outsider, their lawyer's new wife. I'm enjoying her voice.

[Sandy]

I borrowed our two January group reads yesterday and the librarian said I was in for a treat. I think she meant the Tey book, but I'm looking forward to both.

[Jill]

Ruth wrote: "Carolien wrote: "Frances wrote: "I just finished the 4th Jackson Brodie Started Early, Took My Dog, and am devastated to learn there isn’t a 5th one (yet! I hope)."

Brilliant series..."

I'm really looking forward to that one. I also thought they had stopped

[Sandy]

Finished The Warrielaw Jewel and really enjoyed the author's voice. While investigating what other books I own by Winifred Peck I found that Judy must have recommended her. So, thanks Judy!