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

This was a lovely read and a nice break from my diet of crime thrillers. Chord of Evil by Sarah Rayne is almost a cosy mystery. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... or
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Patricia]

Just started Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. She has never disappointed. I am listening to the audiobook which she is narrating.

[Craig]

Just finished a "true crime" tale from the 1400s: Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

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

[Laura/Mystery in Minutes]

Now available: Joanna Schaffhausen's
The Vanishing Season.

Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Zoe]

Have just finished reading a Florentine death by Michele giuttari love love love love it!!!! A fab read and especially the A’s I have recently visited Florence so I could picture every road and alleyway. Can’t wait to read more

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

A really good crime thriller with just the female lead I have been looking for Evil Crimes by Michael Hambling. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... or
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Add me to the long list of fans of Canadian author Louise Penny. I finally started her popular detective series with Still Life. I love Three Pines!
4+★ Link to my review

[Linda]

I'm almost Carrie by Stephen King

[Barbara]

The Child by Fiona Barton

The discovery of an infant's bones in a London excavation site has a profound effect on several women in this suspenseful mystery. Good book. 3.5 stars

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

[Shannon]

Just got done reading these over thanksgiving holiday and also i been sick with a bad cold too

Dirty Martini by J.A. Konrath Another great in this Jack Daniels series

The Bone House by Brian Freeman I really liked it

The Secrets You Keep by Kate White I really loved this standalone it was so good.

Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz A reread and one of his best books IMO

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney It was an okay of a book but i feel that Both Emma and Jane where dumbasses

Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs trying to get her whole series a reread

Reading Now
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

[Linda]

I'm currently reading I Let You Go.

[Thomas]

I just finished My Sister's Bones
It was a GR giveaway and I gave it 3*, My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Bill]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Add me to the long list of fans of Canadian author Louise Penny. I finally started her popular detective series with Still Life. I love Three Pines!
[bookcover:Still..."

Welcome to the club. I've read the first three so far, enjoyed them all. I'd recommend you trying to find the TV movie based on the first book, starring Nathaniel Parker as Gamache. I enjoyed it very much. I wish they'd do another movie.

[Thomas]

I saw the tv movie with Nathaniel Parker and enjoyed it. I have not read any of the books.

[Carrie]

Strangers
by Ursula Archer, Arno Strobel

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

[PattyMacDotComma]

Bill wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Add me to the long list of fans of Canadian author Louise Penny. I finally started her popular detective series with Still Life. I love Thre..."

Thanks, Bill. Maybe we need to find a high profile actor who would like to star as Gamache and then pick up the whole series. Oh, and preferably a bi-lingual actor, to be really believable. :)

[Barbara]

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

This book - a (pseudo) historical, supernatural, mystery horror story - unspools the story of the "Crosswicks Curse" that took a horrific toll on some wealthy, influential Princeton families in 1905 and 1906. Good book (but a bit complex). 4 stars

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

[Jean]

Just finished a NetGalley book, A Whisper of Bones: A Jane Lawless Mystery, the most recent addition to one of my favorite series. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Have just started The Christmas Train and am about 60% through this little novella.

[Jim]

Finished reading by Walter Isaacson

My Review

I have started reading by Ron Chernow

[Bill]

I'm just starting The Cup and the Lip by Elizabeth Ferrars.

[Barbara]

The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett

In this 18th book in the series, amateur sleuths Jude and Carole investigate the murder of a best-selling author who's hiding his past.....and has a habit of groping women. Very simple mystery - it feels like the author didn't try too hard. However, the book's okay to pass an afternoon and has well-liked characters. Can be read as a standalone.
2.5 stars

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

[Bill]

Barbara wrote: "The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett

In this 18th book in the series, amateur sleuths Jude and Carole investigate the ..."

I've enjoyed the Fethering books I've read so far. I also like the Charles Paris series so far. I've still to try Mrs. Pargeter.

[Linda]

I started Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

[Barbara]

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

In this sci-fi thriller, the first book of a trilogy, humans are divided into caste-like categories with the ruling "Golds" on top and the low-level "Reds" - essentially slaves - doing all the drudge work. A young Red named Darrow undergoes a harrowing procedure to look like a Gold,,,,,,so he can infiltrate an elite school and scheme to take down the top brass. Good YA thriller. 3.5 stars

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

[Bill]

Barbara wrote: "Red Rising by Pierce Brown

In this sci-fi thriller, the first book of a trilogy, humans are divided into caste-like categories with..."

I've got that on my bookshelf.

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

Recently finished a detective story set in 1942. Somebody at the Door by Raymond Postgate. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or
https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

[Jamie]

I'm currently reading Jane Harper's The Dry, so far it's great.

I just finished Thomas Mullen's Darktown and it was spectacular. Before that, Joe Ide's IQ, Craig Johnson's The Cold Dish, Noah Hawley's Before the Fall, and Michael Connelly's A Darkness More Than Night and Angles Flight. All quite good.

[Barbara]

People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry

True crime story about Lucie Blackman, a 21-year-old English girl who went to Japan to work as a nightclub hostess.....and disappeared. Her accused killer was a business tycoon with a history of drugging and raping women. Very good book, with insights about crime and Japanese culture. 4 stars

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

[Stephen]

I am currently reading The Fibonacci Murders and am definitely enjoying it! New author, but it is a clever mystery based around mathematics.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I do enjoy Aussie author Emma Viskic's stubborn, deaf detective. And Fire Came Down is #2 in the Caleb Zelic mystery series.
4★ Link to my review

[Eva]

Just finished which means I am done with the The Mortal Instruments series. Loved it! This last one was especially good and that ending <3

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

[Shannon]

Just got done reading these

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman Okay of a book but not one of her best

Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane not as good as i though it would be

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica I really like this one

[Barbara]

A Question of Honor by Charles Todd

In this Bess Crawford mystery, Bess is on a mission to track down army deserter - and accused murderer - Lt. Wade to restore the honor of her father's military unit. Okay mystery. 3 stars

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

[Barbara]

Shannon wrote: "Just got done reading these..."

I read 'The Good Girl.' I thought it was okay.

[Barbara]

Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo

In this 3rd book in the series Police Chief Kate Burkholder has to deal with hate crimes perpetrated on the Amish community as well as a gruesome tragedy when three members of a family die in a manure pit (ick!).....leaving four orphaned children.
Lots of excitement and surprises in this well-written mystery. 3.5 stars

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

[Barbara]

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

In this 2nd book in the trilogy, Darrow - a former 'Red' slave who's now a 'Gold' warrior - is working to destroy the Golds from the inside.....to establish freedom for everyone.
Tons of scheming and action and double-crossing in this story. Good book. 4 stars

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

[Tom]

Just finished All the Missing Girls. Cudos to Megan Miranda for having the stones to tackle writing a book told from back to front. I am curious, though, why she named the book what she did when there were only two missing girls. Do you think Both of the Missing Girls was taken?

Anyway, Here is my review.

[Eva]

Finished 2 days ago. Last in a trilogy and did not enjoy it unfortunately.

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

[Barbara]

Tom wrote: "Just finished All the Missing Girls.
I am curious, though, why she named the book what she did when there were only two missing girls. Do you think Both of the Missing Girls was taken?
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda..."

Maybe it's misdirection?

[Marwan]

Started reading Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Marwan wrote: "Started reading Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall"

The Martin Beck series is and always will be my favorite crime series ever.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I've just finished The Leavenworth Case, by Anna Katherine Green, written in 1878. What a great book!!! The whodunit is left until the very end and unlike what happens when I read a modern crime novel, I never guessed the identity of the murderer. It is a true classic in the history of crime fiction/mystery.

[Sean]

Gregg Hurwitz is an author that I have been meaning to read for a while, an author on my radar with books that I have been recommended and seen some great reviews. So I went for the Orphan books knowing this would be my type of book. I was right !

Gregg Hurwitz brings us a cracking novel with a great character Evan Smoak, adopted as a child by a shadowy figure called Jack and trained to be an assassin as part of a secret US government scheme. Known as Orphan X meaning there were at least 23 others of the Orphan programme, but that was years ago now he is leading normal life and became an adult, he took a fake last name and became "the Nowhere Man." When he's assigned to kill a fellow orphan, he refuses, resulting in the death of his handler whom Evan Smoak considered his father (Jack). He goes underground and leaves the orphans behind.

Evan moves to California and devotes himself to good works – taking out a slum-landlord paedophile cop, for example, after his victim calls Evan’s special number. However, his meticulously compartmentalised life makes him vulnerable … Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places. But it wouldn’t work half as well if we didn’t feel Evan’s pain and share his panic as the worst-case scenario unfolds: another former Orphan, with a less noble agenda, seems to be hunting him. Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a modern master but also a quite character living in an apartment with an collection of various individuals who know nothing about him and his lifestyle.

A thrilling, great paced thriller with a character who is no superhero just a great new action character.

Good , yes I am already on Book 2... The Nowhere Man... That tells you everything !

PS David Baldacci, a great author.... Thanks... You said I would "Thank You"

A clear four stars, and nearly five!

[Laura/Mystery in Minutes]

I finished listening to Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.

Here is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Barbara]

Dead Water by Ann Cleeves

When a journalist is murdered in the Shetland Islands, DI Jimmy Perez helps investigate. There are plenty of suspects since the journo was investigating a controversial environmental group----and had once abandoned a pregnant girlfriend on the island. Pretty good mystery. 3 stars

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

[Bill]

Barbara wrote: "Dead Water by Ann Cleeves

When a journalist is murdered in the Shetland Islands, DI Jimmy Perez helps investigate. There are plenty o..."

I've read the first two Shetland books and enjoyed. I also thought the TV series was excellent.

[Barbara]

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

This book was selected as a Goodreads 'best book' of 2017. For me though, it was just okay.

It's about three families: Mr. and Mrs. Richardson and their four teens, established in the wealthy community of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Mia Warren and her teen daughter, who move often to accomodate Mia's artistic vision; and the rich McCulloughs, who are trying to adopt a Chinese baby....though the immigrant mother wants her child back.
Lots of drama, but some things don't ring true.
3 stars for me.

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

[Tom]

I just finished Some Kind of Fairy Tale, a recently recommended novel that was magnificent. Is it a mystery or a fantasy? Either way, it is pure magic.

Here is my review.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Currently reading an ARC of The Grave's a Fine and Private Place, by Alan Bradley.

[Tom]

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Currently reading an ARC of The Grave's a Fine and Private Place, by Alan Bradley."

I have an ARC of that too that I need to read soon.