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[Dem]

Home StretchFinished

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589617307

[Renee]

I just finished The Mystery of Three Quarters Poirot will always be one of my favorites

[Barbara]

A Scandal in Scarlet by Vicki Delany

In this 4th book in the 'Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries', bookstore manager/amateur sleuth Gemma Doyle investigates the death of a museum volunteer. The book works fine as a standalone.

Fun cozy. 3 stars

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

[Bruce]

I’m reading The Shadow Puppet, by Georges Simenon.

[Bruce]

Nancy, Turn of the Screw is one of my favorite gothic horror novels, and one that gets overlooked, probably because it doesn’t have an iconic character, i.e. Dracula, the Frankenstein creature, Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Dorian Gray.

I plan on watching the Netflix haunted house film trilogy at some point too. I didn’t know it was a trilogy until a few days ago. I loved the film of Turn of the Screw from the 60’s, The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr as the governess. The screenplay was actually by Truman Capote and John Mortimer. The camera work is some of the finest black and white photography ever.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Bruce wrote: "Nancy, Turn of the Screw is one of my favorite gothic horror novels, and one that gets overlooked, probably because it doesn’t have an iconic character, i.e. Dracula, the Frankenstein creature, Dr ..."

It's a fine story to be sure, because of its ambiguity. I'm midway through right now. I think it's more overlooked because of James' writing, which is not at all easy to read, and I have to have complete silence around me while reading his work. The others you mentioned were, for me, much easier.

Re the "haunting trilogy." One of my all-time favorite novels is Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and I was sort of disappointed because although they said it was an homage to Jackson's book, the powers that be did their own thing with it filmwise. Haunting of Bly Manor is on target with Turn of the Screw so far, but I'm only on episode 2.

re The Innocents: fine film.

ps/The Picture of Dorian Gray is also up there among my favorite novels.

[Bruce]

The only other James novel I’ve read is the Golden Bowl, which was tedious. I found Turn of the Screw fairly easy to read, although as you said, it’s ambiguous, which may add difficulty. I think when I read it, I found the difficulties to be in that.

Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favorites as well. The dialogue is brilliant.

[Linda]

Inspector Singh Investigates A Malaysian Murdet

[Jean]

Quincy & Rainey #3 by Lisa Gardner, The Next Accident
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Angie]

Just finished
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Currently reading

[Barbara]

Christine wrote: "I finished my 97th book"

Getting up there. 🙂

[Patricia]

Reading Running Blind . Jack Reacher at his best.

[Araych]

Follow the Sharks by William Tapply

Brady Coyne #3, OK to read as a stand-alone. The child of a friend of Brady is kidnapped. Tapply spent the first half of the book detailing the life story of the cast. I'm a fan of the series and I've read probably a dozen, but this entry is a swing and a miss. 2 stars.

[Sandy]

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

[Sandysbookaday (taking a midwinter break)]

I have just finished the delightful, touching Home Safe beautifully written and beautifully narrated by Elizabeth Berg. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Next up is The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet

[Liz]

I just finished An Unusual Boy
A different sort of mystery. Here’s a link to my four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dem]

Finished Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589616527

[Sandy]

Out tomorrow!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[James]

Now starting THE DEEP DARK DESCENDING by Allen Eskens, the fourth novel in his ongoing mystery series set in Minnesota and featuring homicide detective Max Rupert.

[Christine]

I finished my 98th book

[Christine]

Sandy how are six of your books going?

[Linda]

listening to the Whisper Man

[Aditya]

Finished L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy. A must read noir, probably the most ambitious crime fiction I have read. Rating - 4/5

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

[Barbara]

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

This psychological thriller pits two brilliant men - a physicist and a mathematician - against each other: one trying to cover up a crime and the other trying to solve it.

Very good puzzler. 4 star

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

[Gretchen]

Reading Vanishing in the Haight and listening to ME by Elton John (off genre)

[Atlanta]

32% through You by Caroline Kepnes

[Scott]

Devotion sounds like a great read.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I completely spaced that my book group is meeting a week from yesterday, so I've started We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Snow will have to wait a bit.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Scott wrote: "Devotion sounds like a great read."

It is a good read. That whole series is pretty good.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Bruce wrote: "Nancy, Turn of the Screw is one of my favorite gothic horror novels, and one that gets overlooked, probably because it doesn’t have an iconic character, i.e. Dracula, the Frankenstein creature, Dr ..."

I finished "Turn of the Screw" yesterday. Which camp are you in? Ghosts or no ghosts?

[Liz]

For those that like historical mysteries, Graham Brack’s latest, Dishonour and Obey is a great addition to the series. Here’s a link to my four star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandysbookaday (taking a midwinter break)]

The Girl She Wanted by K.L. Slater
⭐⭐⭐.6 for Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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[PattyMacDotComma]

I am another enthusiastic fan of Graham Brack and his mystery series. Dishonour and Obey is the third outing with Master Mercurius, who investigates a murder for colourful English King Charles II.

This is the way to learn history so you remember it!
4★ Link to my review of Dishonour and Obey

[Linda]

The Night Manager

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle; moving on finally to Snow and then The Onion Field.

[Gretchen]

Just started reading/listening to Devoted by Dean Koontz. He loves his golden retrievers/yellow labs. :)

[Barbara]

The Enemy Inside by Steve Martini

Steve Martini is well known for his popular legal thrillers. In this 13th book in the 'Paul Madriani' series he veers off that genre, and the lawyer characters act more like detectives than attorneys. Thus this is more a conventional thriller - actually spy thriller - than a legal thriller.

Lots of espionage action. 3 stars

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

[Thomas]

Murder in Old Bombay
A clean historical mystery--no sex or profanity, little violence with a dashing hero and a forbidden romance. My review, 3.5* rounded up
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Tammie]

I finished Vampire Academy

now reading Frostbite & Interview with the Vampire

[Christine]

I finished my 99th book

[John]

Gretchen wrote: "Just started reading/listening to Devoted by Dean Koontz. He loves his golden retrievers/yellow labs. :)"

He does! Einstein from Watchers is still one of mine and my wife's favorite dog book. We have a rescue doberman/german shepard mix that we say could teach Einstein a trick or two.

For the thread: finishing book 3 of Killing Eve after watching the series. Die for Me

[Christine]

[Barbara]

The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell

A NYC building super and his college graduate daughter who's moved back home clash during a day that's difficult for both of them.

Fun and insightful debut novel. 3.5 stars

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

[Dem]

Just finished Thin Air: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3599014931

[Sandy]

A book of 2 parts.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandysbookaday (taking a midwinter break)]

The Housewarming by S.E. Lynes and it's left me stunned and breathless after the first few chapters!

I have somehow missed posting a few reviews this week . . .

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

⭐⭐⭐⭐ City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

⭐⭐⭐ The Girl She Wanted by K.L. Slater https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Barbara]

The Accident by S.D. Monaghan

A couple are about to move into their beautiful new home when something happens that cold potentially change their lives.

Good psychological thriller.

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

[John]

Last of the Killing Eve books and also watched the series thru 3. Die for Me

[Thomas]

I read Black Lotus 2: The Vow and rate it 4 stars.
It is a gritty, realistic mystery with a fair amount of violence--not for cozy fans. My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Good Girl, Bad Girl by great Aussie crime-writer Michael Robotham just won him his second Golden Dagger Award. The second in the series, When She Was Good is very, very good, and the bad guys were absolutely horrid!
5★ Link to my review of "When She Was Good"