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Started, finished and reviewed it over the weekend, Diane. I thought it was great! Slaughter just keeps on getting better.

Started, finished and reviewed it over the weekend, Diane. I t..."
Really looking forward to reading it, just waiting for the paperback to arrive in a book store near me. Love her books.


Started, finished and reviewed it over the weekend..."
She writes such great mysteries. One of my favourite authors




Finished The Alienist, a re-read. It was good, just not great. A good page turner (I didn't remember it being quite so gorey!), but there were too many modern elements in a story that takes place in the 1890s.
Am now reading The Invisible Man, which is great fun. The main character is so nasty, very different from the TV show of the 70s.

And I am about to start my first Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason and The Case of the Howling Dog, which should be fun.
Am now reading The Invisible Man, which is great fun. The main character is so nasty, very different from the TV show of the 70s.

And I am about to start my first Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason and The Case of the Howling Dog, which should be fun.

I've been thinking of re-reading some of the Perry Mason stories. I remember the title of that one but not much else except that Perry Mason wins the case. Let us know how you like it.
Dena wrote: " Let us know how you like it. "
It starts out really well... In the first 5 pages we meet a very strange man and a very strange situation. Intriguing. I'm sorry I'm going out to dinner tonight... I want to find out what happens!
It starts out really well... In the first 5 pages we meet a very strange man and a very strange situation. Intriguing. I'm sorry I'm going out to dinner tonight... I want to find out what happens!


Recently finished Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An). Very interesting book which is an English translation of an 18th century Chinese detective story (Dee Goong An) which is based on the real statesman and detective Di Renjie who lived in the seventh century during the Tang Dynasty (A. D. 600-900).
Robert Hans van Gulik went on to write several original mysteries in which he continued the career of Judge Dee.
Robert Hans van Gulik went on to write several original mysteries in which he continued the career of Judge Dee.

My grandmother often had Perry Mason novels sitting on her bedside table. (I think she may have been a little in love with Raymond Burr!) I used to love curling up on her bed reading them when I was about 12 or 13.

If you like outdoor-oriented mysteries, I also recommend series by William Kent Krueger, Dana Stabenow, and Craig Johnson, as well as my own new Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventure mystery series that debuted in March with [book:Deadly Currents


Oh boy, you are in for a lot of good reading with this series!

Ray Flynt
Author of KISSES OF AN ENEMY









I am really enjoying these Scandanavian reads. I hope Audible gets the The Hypnotist heard great things about it if not I'll Kindle it.

Also Nevada Barr.each book features a different national park.


How are you liking it? My favorite one by Cyril Hare is With a Bare Bodkin. Probably very hard to find nowadays.


How are you liking it? My favorite one by Cyril Hare is [book:With a Bar..."
I've just started so it's hard to say. I've had in on my TBR shelf for awhile. I'll keep you posted.

I enjoyed all the Alistair MacLean books I read when I was a teen. I've got it on my shelf to read again. I hope you enjoy.


Love her books, I think there are three now?





Love her books, I think there are three now?"
Yes, I'm looking forward to The House at Sea's End. I've got it on hold at my library.

I read this one for my mystery book club. Everyone liked it. I haven't read any of the other ones in the series though.

Love her books, I think there are three now?"
Yes, The House at Sea's End is the third. I read the first, Crossing Places and loved it. Was a bit disappointed with the personal 'involvement' in the second book ... I thought she was an interesting character on her own without the personal emotional upheaval added. In fact, that was what has kept the series from being a 're-read' for me and on my personal bookshelves.

I enjoy this author's books, her characters and setting is very interesting. Hope you enjoy

I read this one for my my..."
I've only read one of hers that I liked at all and I forgot the name of it; I think it was Brutal Truth or Telling, something like that. From the content blurbs I had been trying to fit in some of her stories. The areas she writes in interest me as well. But I started I think two others, and they are just not for me.

About halfway through More Beer by Jakob Arjouni, a German crime noir classic from the late 80s in a new translation. Outsider Turkish detective Kemal Kayankaya navigates prejudice, eco-terrorists and Establishment corruption with gruff DIY attitude. Liking it so far. First in a series.




I recently read Jar City Cathy. I enjoyed it.

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