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[Jackie]

Is anyone currently reading an ARC of Exquisite by Sarah Stovell? I've been hearing great things about this book!

[Marwan]

Started reading The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Marwan wrote: "Started reading The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey"

One of my favorite books ever.

[Angelina]

Just finished The Drowning Child which I would definitely not recommend as I hated it!

Started Falling in Love and so far ok as I have read a few of Donna Leon brunetti books before and usually ok and about to start The Breakdown which I am not sure about from the cover but maybe I will be surprised.

[Angelina]

Autumn wrote: "I finished The Doll Maker and I thought it was pretty good! Not the best I have ever read, but good. I am glad that I read it. At first I was confused how all the parts fit together..."
Hope you like it and the twist, I was not keen as guessed the twist

[Angelina]

Theresa wrote: "Hi, I've just joined. My current read is The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves set in the North East of England. This year has been so busy that I've read very little and I hope ..." Hello Theresa hope you are enjoying it i really enjoy Ann cleeves, have you tried her Shetland series?

[Darlene]

I wanted a non-fiction choice last week, so I just finished reading When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. I really needed to have a light-hearted book after this one. Do you ever keep a stack of "palate-cleansing" books, to get the last book out of your mind? Or am I the only reader who does this? It was an exceptional book, but so intense and such a heavy subject matter.....what do you do after reading a book that affects you in such a significant way?

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Darlene wrote: "I wanted a non-fiction choice last week, so I just finished reading When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. I really needed to have a light-hearted book after this one. Do you ever keep a stack..."

I'm the same. I love French decadent literature, but after reading too much of the darkest of the dark, I need air and something less disturbing.

[Barbara]

I finished The Brethren by John Grisham

'The Brethren' are three incarcerated judges who perpetrate a money-making scam from prison....targeting closeted homosexual men. Meanwhile, during a presidential election season the CIA director maneuvers to get his candidate into the White House. Can you guess how these storylines intersect? Not a great Grisham book. 2.5 stars.

My complete review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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

Just finished Abducted Innocence by Sandra Bolton. It is the second in a series, but I don't think I enjoyed it enough to read any more of the series. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Barbara]

I finished The Dry by Jane Harper.

A small town in Australia is having a drought and a farmer kills his family and himself. Or does he? The man's childhood friend, a Federal agent who was driven out of town under a cloud, comes back and investigates. Good book. 3.5 stars.

My complete review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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

Tumbled Graves by Brenda Chapman An excellent read by an author new to me. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[John]

Just finished . I gave this book a 4/5. I've read many books by and enjoyed them all.

[Abbey]

whoo hoo! Library just coughed up:
THE GIRL I USED TO BE, April Henry, reviews etc are great, sort-of YA (ykwim) but she's a good strong plotter usually, so have high hopes, the premise sounds wonderful: 3-yo's Mum killed in front of her, and Dad vanishes, he believed to have done it, she sent to Foster Care but 14 yrs later HIS body turns up close to where the Mother's body found and it's obvious that he was killed the same time and same way too. The now-17yo girl wants answers, goes home for the Dad's funeral and realizes nobody recognizes her sooo... a bit soapy, but might be fun, it's my weekend treat!

also received:
ISLAND OF TEARS, Troy Soos, NYC immigrants, and those who use and abuse them circa 1890s as a reporter searches for a missing woman. First in series, I *loved* his baseball historical mysteries from a decade or two ago!

DEATH IN THE OFF-SEASON, Francine Matthews, #1 Merry Folger, Nantucket, my summerish treat, if I can't GET to the islands physically, then...! and will probably also reread Phoebe Atwood Taylor's "Asey Mayo, Cape Cod" series this summer too, yum! She's one of my all-time faves, another of those "forgotten Fems" authors from between-the-wars that I so love!

[Thomas]

I just finished The Breakdown
The book dragged on too much in the first half. 3 stars. My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I've just finished a true crime book, Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham. I have several issues with this book, none the least of which is the change of title from So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World to include Anne Perry's name. It's like in the revised title, Pauline Parker, whose plan it was to kill her own mom, had no airtime. That's just crap. So very frustrating, and as I said in my first-impressions post, just a cheap shot.

[Carol]

Nancy wrote: "I've just finished a true crime book, Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham. I have several issues with this book, none the least of which is the change of title..."

Wow. I'm with you.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I've just finished a true crime book, Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham. I have several issues with this book, none the least of which is the c..."

It's just wrong.

[Carol]

Nancy wrote: "Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I've just finished a true crime book, Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham. I have several issues with this book, none the least of ..."

Indeed.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Still working on Wolf on a String, UK title Prague Nights. Then I'll be launching into the world of the original Penny Dreadful novel with The String of Pearls: The Original Sweeney Todd, by Thomas Peckett Prest (1846).

[Carol]

Nancy wrote: "Still working on Wolf on a String, UK title Prague Nights. Then I'll be launching into the world of the original Penny Dreadful novel with [book:The String of Pearls..."

I returned Wolf on a String to the library after your last post and moved on (so many little pretties on my bedside table at the moment). If you change your mind about it, holler loudly. I'm intrigued to read your thoughts on String of Pearls.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Still working on Wolf on a String, UK title Prague Nights. Then I'll be launching into the world of the original Penny Dreadful novel with [book:The St..."

If I change my mind, I'll give you my copy.

Re String of Pearls: I'm really looking forward to it.

[Jim]

Finished reading by Amor Towles

My Review

I have started reading by Lisa Gardner

[Bill]

Just finished Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald, the 6th Travis McGee mystery and it was excellent (4 stars).. Something a bit lighter, I hope next, with the 2nd Hamish McGee mystery, Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Bill wrote: "Just finished Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald, the 6th Travis McGee mystery and it was excellent (4 stars).. Something a bit lighter, I hope next, wit..."

Light after dark. That's my way of doing things too.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

On the home stretch to finishing Wolf on a String. I've decided that I need to follow my own advice about not having expectations going into a book -- I thought this would be a crime novel, since under the name Benjamin Black the author previously wrote crime fiction (the excellent Quirke series), but it really turns out to be a book about a naive young man who finds himself in the court of Rudolf II in 1599, surrounded by people who are all plotting against each other. There are three deaths, and he's supposed to discovering who killed one of them, but it's definitely NOT a crime fiction novel, much more of a work of historical fiction and court intrigue.

[Carol]

Nancy wrote: "On the home stretch to finishing Wolf on a String. I've decided that I need to follow my own advice about not having expectations going into a book -- I thought this would be a crim..."

I suspect it's a vehicle for the author to continue to write about a subject he loves and on which he's done a ton of research: historical Prague. Thanks for looping back on this.

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I started Entanglement by Zygmunt Miłoszewski. While I'm only 10% in, I'm a big fan so far. Plus Poland. I've not read any detective/crime fiction set there and am enjoying learning a new structure, acronyms and relationships between police departments, prosecutors, courts, etc.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "On the home stretch to finishing Wolf on a String. I've decided that I need to follow my own advice about not having expectations going into a book -- I thought this w..."

I LOVE that book.

[Jean]

Lots of crime, a bit of mystery, but short on thrills - Dennis Lehane's third book in his Coughlin trilogy, World Gone By was hit and miss for me.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Faith]

I finished Ill Will by Dan Chaon. My review:

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

[John]

I finished Minor in Possession by J.A. Jance. I've liked everything I've read by this author, but I particularly like the J.P. Beaumont series.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

finished Wolf on a String, by Benjamin Black, aka John Banville.

Starting The String of Pearls: The Original Sweeney Todd, by Thomas Peckett Prest (1846)

[Faith]

I finished Follow Me Down by Shelby Foote. My review:

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

[Barbara]

I finished Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio

Seattle reporter Claire Aldridge is assigned to write a story comparing a late spring snowstorm in 2010 to one that occurred in 1933. She focuses the article on a 3-year-old boy who disappeared during the depression era snowfall. The book is ok but too contrived for my taste. 3 stars.

My complete review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Abbey]

Faith wrote: "I finished Follow Me Down... by Shelby Foote"

Thanks Faith, I've *wondered* about his fiction and if it was any good. Fell madly in love with the man and very interested in his historical writing after seeing him on Ken Burns' CIVIL WAR, read some of those writings and enjoyed them but not tried his novels, thought they might be too Faulkneresque (I *think* that's a Real Word...! -grin-) for my tastes tho so never actually attempted a read - too many OTHER books, too little time...

[Tom]

Abbey wrote: "Faith wrote: "I finished Follow Me Down... by Shelby Foote"

Thanks Faith, I've *wondered* about his fiction and if it was any good. Fell madly in love with the man and very interested in his histo..."

I read Love in a Dry Season last year and loved it. I would really like to get back to his books.

[Faith]

Abbey wrote: "Faith wrote: "I finished Follow Me Down... by Shelby Foote"

Thanks Faith, I've *wondered* about his fiction and if it was any good. Fell madly in love with the man and very interested in his histo..."


His fiction is very good. I've never read his nonfiction because I've already read a lot about the Civil War.

[Jim]

I just finished reading by Lisa Gardner

My Review

I am going to reread by Louise Penny. This is the ninth book in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It was the first book that I read about one year ago. I then read all the books in the series in order and have come full circle.

[Mary Beth]

Finished The Stolen Girls

My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Saundra]

I'm currently reading the 3rd book in a Trilogy. Ghost Moon by Heather Graham! Love it!

[Thomas]

Just finished. No Turning Back
My review, 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kim. E.]

The book I've most recently finished is All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda. I thought the time change would throw me, but I quickly fell into the rhythm of it. What I really enjoyed enjoyed the most was the actual usage of words throughout, much as I often do when I'm reading a classic. This was a great book for me.

I'm currently listening to Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter as well as His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I recently finished Thomas Cullinan's The Beguiled, then watched the movie. The book is SO much better -- they leave out a lot in the film, including people.

[L.J.]

Just started reading At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. I will try most genres, though thrillers are my favourite read. Whatever takes my fancy at the time really!

[Chris]

Have taken a couple of books along for my trip to read on the plane & airports. The first A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King. Her debut. Thoroughly enjoying this mystery.

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Read by D.P. Lyle, bk 1 of his Jake Long series set along the northern Gulf Coast. Well plotted, good character development, fast paced, and well done for a first book. PI style.

Aso read , the latest Miss Fortune humorous mystery. She back on track after two very so-so entries in the series and it looks like Floria will be where the action moves in the next book. Loved she had the Herberts back in this one.

Also read the latest (bk 4) in the Eat, Prey, Die series. An Aussie author, she sets her books in So Cal and they are funny, well done, with a lead character who is not the next 'tough gal' on the block.

is the 5th book in the Laura Black PI series and about as solid as a female PI book can be. I've enjoyed every one of the books and this one is no exception. Well done.

[Darlene]

Chris wrote: "Have taken a couple of books along for my trip to read on the plane & airports. The first A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King. Her debut. Thoroughly enjoying this mystery."

I love the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. Sounds like I will have to check out her Kate Martinelli series as well.

[Jackie]

I just finished reading the last book in Linwood Barclay's PROMISE FALLS Series. I highly recommend it. But, there are a lot of characters to keep track of, so I recommend reading all the books back to back. The number 23 was a key element in all three books. The ending was a HUGE surprise. I didn't expect it at all. Great character development, incredible setting, tons of suspense! Loved it!
Linwood Barclay

[Kenneth]

About to start . Advance word on this has been terrific.

I've been a fan of Don Winslow ever since I read many, many years ago. (Still own a signed 1st edition of it, too.)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Just read Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips, which possibly aspires to be Hunger Games in the Zoo.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...