Nominations open for August 2020 group read

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

It's time for everyone to nominate a book for our August 2020 group read.

Continuing on with our different tasks each month:

For August's read we are looking for A book with a dead (human) BODY on the cover
So, nominate a crime/mystery/thriller/suspense book to cover August's task :)

Don't forget - 1st in a series, if a series

This thread will be open until 10th July, then nominations will go to the vote.

Authors and publishers, please don't nominate your own work!

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Once Gone by Blake Pierce

[Kylie H]

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

[Kylie H]

Brenda, did you mean to send out a message regarding the nominations? I only noticed that this had gone up while looking for something else.

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Yes I'm sure I did Kylie... you didn't get one obviously :( Perhaps I forgot - I'll do it now :) Thank you...

[Carolyn]

Dead Gone by T.J. Brearton, #1 in a series

[Kerri_M]

hmmmm struggling to find one to nominate - I will keep looking though!

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Happy hunting Kerri!

[Kylie H]

Kerri_M wrote: "hmmmm struggling to find one to nominate - I will keep looking though!"

It took me a while, I had given up then walked past my book case and the one that I nominated caught my eye! Found it without actually trying ☺

[Carolyn]

Took me a while too Kerri. I had to trawl through my very large tbr looking at covers - not many bodies!

[Kylie H]

Carolyn wrote: "Took me a while too Kerri. I had to trawl through my very large tbr looking at covers - not many bodies!"

It sounds terrible, looking for a body! I was going through my TBR list and then looking at 'all editions' as some covers do have a body, not that I had much luck trying it that way.

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

I just went through my Crime TBR on here looking for a body ;) Was going to do the rest if one wasn't available in Crime.

[Kathryn in FL]

I did a search for "Books with human body on the cover". A link of 20 covers came up but none of the pictures showed up in the link! The list shows no titles either.
Anyone else able to see a picture?
https://www.flavorwire.com/58397/20-b...

[Kathryn in FL]

I found this on my TBR, it has a human body though I didn't know if it is allowed since it isn't a "distressed"/deceased one (is that a requirement?).

A Death of No Importance: A Novel (A Jane Prescott Novel (1))
Book 1 of 3: A Jane Prescott Novel | by Mariah Fredericks

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

A Death of No Importance

Did you mean this one Kathryn? If so, it has to be a dead body (as the ones already mentioned)

[Phrynne, Mystery lover!]

Did I suggest this as a topic Brenda? If so I apologise and I can't find one anywhere.

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Haha yes 🥴 I have quite a few on my TBR, a number of them not 1st in series.

[Phrynne, Mystery lover!]

And then I found one! The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson She looks very dead to me

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

She sure does!

[Kerri_M]

Does it have to be a human body?

I found a dead bird...

Rubbernecker

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Kerri, even though it's not said, a dead human body is what it should be. With the group being what it is, I don't think a dead bird would be the scale of crime/mystery we're used to ;)

[Kerri_M]

in that case, I have nothing :)

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Never mind, you might like something that's nominated :)

[Phrynne, Mystery lover!]

I just checked and this was a question in our Annual Challenge in 2019. People came up with lots of different ones there but of course some were from part way through series which we can't do here. Tess Gerritson came up a lot!!!

[Kylie H]

Could it be a book with the word 'body' in the title?

[Trevor]

Can I nominate The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith



I think it's a dead body on the cover.

[Carolyn]

The Christopher Killer sounds good Phrynne. She definitely looks dead!

It's weird isn't it that we can't find many bodies on thrillers. I did find a couple more bodies in my tbr, but as you mentioned they were part way through series.

[Phrynne, Mystery lover!]

Trevor wrote: "Can I nominate The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith



I think it's a dead body on the cover."

Yes, I think we can assume he is dead Trevor. Should be a good book too.

[Phrynne, Mystery lover!]

Kylie H wrote: "Could it be a book with the word 'body' in the title?"

No, I think we are getting enough choices for a vote the way it is Kylie:)

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Trevor wrote: "Can I nominate The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith



I think it's a dead body on the cover."

Agree with Phrynne, Trevor - very blurry when enlarged though!

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Yes we'll have enough :)

[Kathryn in FL]

Brenda wrote: "A Death of No Importance

Did you mean this one Kathryn? If so, it has to be a dead body (as the ones already mentioned)"

Yes. Well, maybe in another book club... I bow to the other more clever among us.

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

I guess all groups have different guidelines Kathryn. And no one is more or less clever than the other either :)

[Kylie H]

Phrynne wrote: "Kylie H wrote: "Could it be a book with the word 'body' in the title?"

No, I think we are getting enough choices for a vote the way it is Kylie:)"

No worries ☺ it has been a fun 'body' hunt!

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Thankfully not the real thing Kylie :)

[Kathryn in FL]

Brenda wrote: "I guess all groups have different guidelines Kathryn. And no one is more or less clever than the other either :)"

Brenda,
I apologize for not writing the note clearly. I was a bit frustrated that my search didn't bear much fruit. I'm glad other's searches did. Thus in this instance they are in fact more clever.
My tastes vary among several genres, so I know that something that I want to read may be voted on occasionally, so if not here then another...or I can read it on my own. It's all good.
No worries! I hope I didn't sound too snarky.

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Thanks Kathryn :)

[L.A.]

Hi, I nominate a wonderful crime fiction novel by Natalie Conyer called Present Tense.Present Tense
"A gripping story of murder, revenge and betrayal set in the new South Africa." - Malla Nunn

[Natalie]

I nominate L A Larkin's Prey. It's a thriller and will have you on the edge of your seat. It's been getting great reviews.Prey

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Natalie wrote: "I nominate L A Larkin's Prey. It's a thriller and will have you on the edge of your seat. It's been getting great reviews.Prey"

Sorry Natalie, 1) no dead body on the cover and 2) it's the 2nd in the series :)

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

L.A. wrote: "Hi, I nominate a wonderful crime fiction novel by Natalie Conyer called Present Tense.Present Tense
"A gripping story of murder, revenge and betrayal set in the new South Africa." -..."

Louisa, I've zoomed the cover as much as I can and can't see a dead body on the cover...

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Nominations are closed with voting on the poll available now :)

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...