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[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Zoe wrote: "Am starting the Maltese falcon by dashiell Hammett, noir novels are not really my thing but this is a book club read and it does sound intriguing"

Super book, Zoe.

[Mary Beth]

I am reading Patient Zero Its my first Jonathan Mayberry book and I have been missing out.

[Ruth]

I'm reading A Letter of Mary, which is the third book in the Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes series.

[Zoe]

^^
They are such an awesome series how are you finding it? The author is a genius lol

[Ruth]

Zoe wrote: "^^
They are such an awesome series how are you finding it? The author is a genius lol"

I love her writing, and I enjoy this series very much. Still not sure how I feel about the direction she took the Russell/Holmes relationship (don't want to say anything too specific here), but I like the books so much that I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude about that.

I read both of King's Harris Stuyvesant books before these, and when I plow through this series, I may try the Kate Martinelli books. I like that her work is very readable, but still has some intellectual content.

[Georgia]

Just finished . A book that "grabs" your interest from page one, slows down in the middle adding more characters losing some of it's intensity, but on the whole a good read. This is the first book I have read ; but, I get the idea that Sherlock and her husband , FBI agents have been in other books.as their engagement in the story is minimal.

[Zoe]

The first book is the bee keepers apprentice if you wanted to know

[Andrew✌️]

Nancy wrote: "Andrew wrote: "I've finished God Emperor of Dune: I didn't liked it, it's too discursive, full of philosophical reasoning and confused, but I would like to finish the series. I hope th..."

Yes, me too. I wasn't sure to read the others, but I was curious. Now, I think I can stop, this is an end as good as any other.

[Andrew✌️]

Tom wrote: "Andrew wrote: " but I would like to finish the series."

Why? Just because someone has written a series doesn't mean you have to read the entire thing. If his books aren't engaging you anymore, fin..."

I know. I was curious to see how the story was continued. Now I can stop or finish the series, if I want. I'll put Dune aside and I'll continue with other.

[Georgia]

Zoe wrote: "The first book is the bee keepers apprentice if you wanted to know "

Zoe , the eleventh hour was not written by Laurie King. This is a different Sherlock . She is a woman and works for the FBI. It's not the famous Sherlock!!!

[Zoe]

Lol *runs and hides with embarrassment* oops sorry my app doesn't update fast enough so all I could see was Sherlock and so on lol sorry my mistake

[Nancy]

Love that FBI series Georgia. I have read most of them and Coulter does a fine job in her writing.

[Barbara]

As the World Churns by Tamar Myers. It's a hoot so far.

[❆ Crystal ❆]

I'm starting The Black Ice

[Barbara]

I finished Shadow Play by Iris Johansen. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is asked to do a facial reconstruction when the skeleton of a 9-year-old girl is found. The killer, however, will do anything to keep the girl from being identified. Murder and mayhem ensue. For me some motives and behavior didn't ring true. 2.5 stars.

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

[Sean]

Thank You very much to Net Galley, the publishers, and Robin Burcell, for the opportunity to read this great book.

Robin Burcell has worked as a cop, hostage negotiator, and as an FBI-trained, forensic artist . She’s also the author of award-winning thrillers. Now she uses that unparalleled experience to continue Carolyn Weston’s groundbreaking series of books, which were the basis for the hit TV show "The Streets of San Francisco."

Sgt. Al Krug and his younger, college-educated partner Casey Kellog are investigating a string of strangulation killings when another victim is found at the Presidio…but a surprising, violent incident at the crime scene makes them wonder if everything is what it seems. The two miss-matched cops, with sharply conflicting approaches to detective work, are under intense pressure to get results. It’s a race-against-the-clock investigation that propels them into the deadly intersection of politics, real estate, media and vice… the fertile, fog-shrouded killing field of a ruthless murderer.

This is a very enjoyable, easy reading, great story with plenty of characters, two great lead characters and different detectives, and Karl Malden and Michael Douglas faces kept coming into my head.

A very well written to me a real classic type police procedure, from an author will all the experience and knowledge.

Kept as a great pace with strong supporting characters, keep you guessing to the very last pages.

I am very keen to read more from this author, as I like her writing style.

A good four stars for me.

[Niyati]

I'm currently reading several books,

[Nancy]

Reading Teresa Burrell's The Advocate's Conviction.
Sabre, the main character, is a lawyer who practices primarily in the court for juveniles.

[Andrew✌️]

I've finished Past Master, a mix of sci fi and philosophical debate.
Now, I'm in one of my horror periods, I'm reding The Shining and American Vampire, Vol. 1.

[Barbara]

I finished Blue Moonlight by Vincent Zandri. The FBI coerces Private Investigator Dick Moonlight to go to Florence, Italy to retrieve a flash drive with nuclear secrets. A simple plot but plenty of action. 3 stars.

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

[Mary Beth]

I am now reading Fractured by Karin Slaughter

[Barbara]

I finished As the World Churns by Tamar Myers. Magdalena Yoder is a Mennonite woman who owns an inn in Pennsylvania and solves mysteries in her spare time. In this book Magdalena is after the perp who clonked her friend Doc Shafor on the head. Very funny book. 3.5 stars.

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

[Sean]

Thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and author Mark Dawson for an advanced copy for my honest review.

To me a great opportunity to read one of my favourite authors, and start a new trilogy which carries on after the three great Beatrice Rose books, with the start of the Isabella Rose books.

I know now that you came a Mark Dawson book, you start with action, plots, twists, great characters, and of course the return of a great character in "Control", or Michael Pope.

White light. Heat. A drawn-out moment of complete silence. And then the screaming starts.

An Underground carriage in London is destroyed by a suicide bomber. The injured and the dead litter the platform. But as a crowd forms at street level, Michael Pope knows that this is only the beginning.

Pope, head of top-secret Group Fifteen, is tasked with finding the perpetrators of this atrocity and bringing them to justice, any way he can. He knows that the answers to many of his questions will lie at the end of the money trail, but he also knows that whoever funded and organised the attack will kill again for their freedom.

This is an operation that requires a very special kind of agent. Pope needs someone who exists outside of normality. Someone who floats above it, treading softly through a fractured life.

He needs the Angel!

The action travels throughout the UK, Morocco and Switzerland, as well follow the plot, as usual the pace is fast, action packed with tension, great characters, lots of twists, shoot outs.

Always guaranteed a good story, plenty of action, lots of tension.

Why only four stars, the naughty ending !!!

It is like watching your favourite action series, the last episode in the series, it end on a cliffhanger, and that's it !

So all I can ask , when is Isabelle Rose part 2 coming out !!!

But still highly recommended, but do read the three Beatrice Rose books first.

[Barbara]

I finished The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Department Q in Copenhagen investigates the cold case of a beautiful girl killed 17 years ago. Good mystery, but not quite as good as previous books in the series. 3 stars.

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

[Nancy]

Susan Andersen's Head Over Heels was a good 4 star read. I figured out the murderer early but the book covered more territory than that. Slow in the middle but an excellent ending!

[❆ Crystal ❆]

I'm starting The Big Bad Wolf

[Tom S]

I am 60% done with City On Fire.City on Fire

[❆ Crystal ❆]

CR: the audiobook The Waste Lands

[Tom]

I just finished The Early Stories of Truman Capote. Although amateurish by Capote's standards, this was still an excellent collection. My review is here.

[Barbara]

I finished The Jezebel Remedy by Martin Fillmore Clark. Joe and Lisa Stone, married couple partners in a small law firm, get involved in a lawsuit with a nasty pharmaceutical company. Has a slow start but it's a good legal thriller. 3.5 stars.

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

[Yrsa]

Currently reading "episode" 2 of Piotrs Log, Piotrs Log 2 - To the End of the World. It's an interesting way of reading ebooks, like a TV series. One episode at the time. The book is written by Piotr, a oil pirate trying to survive on an oil tank. Super tense!

[Zoe]

I am currently reading a non-fiction book called the Bletchley Girls which is absolutely fascinating

[Tom S]

I am almost done with City On Fire.

[Risma]

Currently reading: Looking for Alaska, The Valey of Fear and Magyk.

[Kat]

Just finished The Chill and I am currently reading City of Echoes.

[Bill]

Zoe wrote: "I am currently reading a non-fiction book called the Bletchley Girls which is absolutely fascinating"

Did you watch The Bletchley Circle, a 2-season mystery series in the UK about 4 women who had worked at Bletchey during the war and got involved in mysteries after? My wife and I loved it.

[Bill]

I finished The Ice Princess, this morning, a Scandinavian mystery, which overall I enjoyed. I will try the next book, but I won't rush out to find it. There were some unsatisfying loose ends in this story. It was an interesting, somewhat disturbing mystery and I liked the main characters, so overall, as I said, satisfying, but not enthralling. Starting the first Miss Marple mystery next, The Murder at the Vicarage.

[❆ Crystal ❆]

JF: The Big Bad Wolf

CR: London Bridges

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I finished A Head Full of Ghosts, by Paul Tremblay (a very different book than I thought it was going to be), a nonfiction account of the first African-American millionaire in New York called Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire, and a 1962 crime novel called The Forbidden Garden, by Ursula Curtiss, the basis of a terrible movie called "Whatever happened to Aunt Alice."

I'll be starting Benjamin Black's (aka John Banville) newest book, Even the Dead, book #7 in his crime series set in 1950s Dublin.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Bill wrote: "Zoe wrote: "I am currently reading a non-fiction book called the Bletchley Girls which is absolutely fascinating"

Did you watch The Bletchley Circle, a 2-season mystery series in the UK about 4 wo..."

Great series. Loved it.

[Sean]

Thank you very much to Net Galley, the publishers for an advance copy of this great book.

When 12-year-old Ciaran Devine confessed to murdering his foster father it sent shock waves through the nation.

DCI Serena Flanagan, then an ambitious Detective Sergeant, took Ciaran's confession after days spent earning his trust. He hasn’t forgotten the kindness she showed him – in fact, she hasn't left his thoughts in the seven years he’s been locked away.

Probation officer Paula Cunningham, now tasked with helping Ciaran re-enter society, suspects there was more to this case than the police uncovered. Ciaran’s confession saved his brother Thomas from a far lengthier sentence, and Cunningham can see the unnatural hold Thomas still has over his vulnerable younger brother.

When she brings her fears to DCI Flanagan, the years of lies begin to unravel, setting a deadly chain of events in motion.

I hadn't read Stuart Neville before, and was immediately hooked. I thought 'Those We Left Behind' was a disturbing and fiercely clever, chilling, absorbing, tragic and suspensful story.

With an absorbing, wonderful main character in DCI Serena Flanagan, a haunted, bruised , compelling lead role, with support in the two Devine brothers, very menacing, chilling and dark characters.

A plot full of suspense , chills, tension and great twists, you just cannot stop reading !!

Highly recommended, a great five star book

[Tom]

I just finished Criminal, Vol. 1: Coward. It is, bar none, the best graphic novel I have ever read. It is must reading for lovers of noir. My review is here.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Mary wrote: "I just finished "This House is Haunted"by John Boyne I was very disappointed."

Why, Mary? I thought it was a fun book -- lots of different ghost-story tropes and an homage to those who wrote them.

[Joi]

I just started and I'm listening to

[Ctgt]

@Tom

I really enjoyed that series. Still haven't finished the last couple of volumes. I also highly recommend

Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

"It seemed to be all cliche and very predictable. I know it's popular but I just didn't like it.

Turn of the Screw is a great spooky read."

I don't think Boyne meant it to be serious, actually -- if you read it in that vein, it actually works.

Turn of the Screw is a perfect story. Absolutely.

[Tom S]

I just finished City on Fire , and started Car eer of Evil

[Zoe]

I am now reading My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst and wow I am amazed at the courage and determination in both her, her daughters and even her husband in trying to get woman's rights into law. She is definitely an icon for all types of people and especially for equality

[Sandysbookaday (taking a midwinter break)]

Just finished Bury Your Dead 4* from me - here is my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..., and almost finished Pretty Girls

[Tom]

Tom Swift wrote: "I just finished City on Fire"

What did you think of it?