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paul burke (anntony475) | 56 comments "Mr. X" by john lutz also has fascinating people scurrying around to find or escape from, a serial killer.


message 2852: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Reading Fallen by Karin Slaughter. Have read this series from the beginning and always find them good.


message 2853: by Kim (new)

Kim (kimmr) Diane wrote: "Reading Fallen by Karin Slaughter. Have read this series from the beginning and always find them good."

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


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Steffi (steffi_the_bookworm) just finished Juliet by anne fortier, starting with Sharp Objects by gillian flynne next


message 2855: by Mary (new)

Mary Kim wrote: "Diane wrote: "Reading Fallen by Karin Slaughter. Have read this series from the beginning and always find them good."

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.


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Dori Just finished "Miranda's Big Mistake" by Jill Mansell and just started "The Apothecary's Daughter" by Julie Klassan


message 2857: by Bill (new)

Bill Mary wrote: "Kim wrote: "Diane wrote: "Reading Fallen by Karin Slaughter. Have read this series from the beginning and always find them good."

Started, finished and reviewed it over the weekend..."


She writes such great mysteries. One of my favourite authors


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omgbart | 28 comments Finished The Pact by Jodi Picoult and now reading The Leopard, which I believe is the brand new Jo Nesbo book.


message 2859: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Finished Fallen by Karin Slaughter, which I loved and now starting Sixkill (Spenser #40) by Robert B. Parker which is the last book Parker wrote before his death, love his characters and dialogue and also started The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott which seems to be getting very good reviews.


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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.


message 2861: by Jan C (new)

Jan C (woeisme) | 39237 comments Erle Stanley Gardner is one of the authors I always look for at a used book store or sale.


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Dena | 97 comments Hayes wrote: "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 ..."

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.


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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!


message 2864: by Carol (new)

Carol Keogh (Goodfellow) (carolgoodfellowkeogh) I am in the middle of Dead Run by Erica Spindler. I have only recently discoverd this author and I am really enjoying her book


message 2865: by Elli (new)

Elli | 228 comments I am in the middle of Devil Water by Anya Seton. It's quite good. I don't how I managed to miss it or this author in the past!


message 2866: by Donna, Co-Moderator (new)

Donna | 2178 comments Mod
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.


message 2867: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Finished Sixkill and am somewhat sad and now reading The Murder of the Century The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins and A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder, #17) by Lawrence Block because I love the Scudder novels.


message 2868: by Kim (new)

Kim (kimmr) Hayes wrote: "And I am about to start my first Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason and The Case of the Howling Dog, which should be fun. ..."

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.


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Beth | 408 comments Dena wrote: "Thanks to all of you for introducing me to C. J. Box. I downloaded the first book in the Warden Pickett series yesterday and really enjoyed it."

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


message 2871: by Ray (new)

Ray Flynt | 6 comments I always loved the Perry Mason stories, and the interplay between Perry, Della Street and Paul Drake. If you watched any of the original TV show you can read without picturing those actors in the roles, but most of the books feature the "Perry Mason" moment in which he manages to unmask the real killer.

Ray Flynt
Author of KISSES OF AN ENEMY


message 2872: by Martina (new)

Martina Recently finished Ellen Crosby's about to be published The Sauvignon Secret The Sauvignon Secret (Wine Country Mysteries, #6) by Ellen Crosby , which I loved. Currently reading a classic, Sapper's Bulldog Drummond Bulldog Drummond (Crime Classics) by H.C. McNeile and finishing the first Graeme Kent Ben Kella/Sister Conchita series set in the Solomon Islands in the 1960s--Devil-Devil Devil-Devil A Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita Mystery Set in the Solomon Islands by Graeme Kent . Also finally getting around to listening to Diana Gabaldon's Outlander now that it's been out for decades! Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon


message 2873: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Finished A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block, which I really liked and am now reading Breaking Silence (Kate Burkholder, #3) by Linda Castillo by Linda Castillo which is a relatively new series about a former Amish who is now a police chief and her dept. They investigate crimes in Amish country.


message 2875: by Bill (new)

Bill Starting a mystery by a new author for me, Cyril Hare and Tragedy at Law


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Michael (mikedecshop) | 75 comments Just finished Snømannen Gave it 4 stars.
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.


message 2877: by Fatima (new)

Fatima (totteringpileofbooks) I recently finished The Mystery of the Blue Train (Poirot) by Agatha Christie .


message 2878: by Teresa (new)

Teresa (teresainohio) Beth wrote: "Kari wrote: "Beth wrote: "I'm catching up on one of my favorite series, C. J. Box's Joe Pickett game warden series set in Wyoming. I'm currently reading Below Zero and just finished ..."

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


message 2879: by Dena (new)

Dena | 97 comments Bill wrote: "Starting a mystery by a new author for me, Cyril Hare and Tragedy at Law"


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


message 2880: by Bill (new)

Bill Dena wrote: "Bill wrote: "Starting a mystery by a new author for me, Cyril Hare and Tragedy at Law"


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.


message 2881: by Bill (new)

Bill Hugh wrote: "Have now started H.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair MacLean."

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.


message 2882: by Jan (new)

Jan (booklover777) | 66 comments Just finished The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. Enjoyed it and didn't guess the killer until the end.


message 2883: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Jan wrote: "Just finished The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. Enjoyed it and didn't guess the killer until the end."

Love her books, I think there are three now?


message 2884: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Reading The Glass Demon by Helen Grant by Helen Grant and Secret of the White Rose by Stefanie Pintoff which is the third mystery in this series, set in the early 1900's and the beginning of profiling, they are very good.


message 2885: by Susan (new)

Susan | 69 comments I am currently reading Simple Genius by David Baldacci. Its good so far. Simple Genius (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #3) by David Baldacci


message 2886: by Monica (new)

Monica | 75 comments Have just started reading the first Louise Penny book, Still Life. I've seen this author mentioned a lot here...so we'll see how it goes.


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Jan (booklover777) | 66 comments Diane wrote: "Jan wrote: "Just finished The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. Enjoyed it and didn't guess the killer until the end."

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.


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Susan | 69 comments Monica wrote: "Have just started reading the first Louise Penny book, Still Life. I've seen this author mentioned a lot here...so we'll see how it goes."

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.


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Sharon Michael | 674 comments Diane wrote: "Jan wrote: "Just finished The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. Enjoyed it and didn't guess the killer until the end."

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.


message 2890: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Monica wrote: "Have just started reading the first Louise Penny book, Still Life. I've seen this author mentioned a lot here...so we'll see how it goes."

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


message 2891: by Elli (new)

Elli | 228 comments Susan wrote: "Monica wrote: "Have just started reading the first Louise Penny book, Still Life. I've seen this author mentioned a lot here...so we'll see how it goes."

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.


message 2892: by Steve (new)

Steve Anderson | 87 comments Finished John Lawton's A Little White Death featuring a middle-aged Inspector Troy in early 60s Britain. Good stuff as always from Lawton (one of my favorites), though it reads more like a novel than a mystery.

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.


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Margie (ragdoll1938) | 1 comments I am reading "Cold Quarry" by Andy Straka. I have borrowed it on my Kindle from www.booklending.com This is the 4th one in this series.


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Dorie (dorieann) | 464 comments I'm beginning Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon. This is the follow up to his wonderful first book Think of a Number.


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Cathy | 16 comments Half way through Jar City, my second by Arnaldur Indridason (Author) Bernard Scudder (Translator). Quite spare - not sure if this is due to the place, the writing or having been translated. Quite enjoyable still.


message 2896: by Diane S ☔ (new)

Diane S ☔ | 438 comments Now reading Long Gone by Alafair Burke , which is very good and different from her usual.


message 2898: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 10000 comments Cathy wrote: "Half way through Jar City, my second by Arnaldur Indridason (Author) Bernard Scudder (Translator). Quite spare - not sure if this is due to the place, the writing or having been tr..."

I recently read Jar City Cathy. I enjoyed it.


message 2899: by Laura (new)

Laura DiSilverio | 9 comments I'm half-way through Peter Robinson's Bad Boy. I love catching up with his detectives and since I used to live in Yorkshire, I like revisiting familiar scenery. It's a page turner so far.


message 2900: by Mohammed (new)

Mohammed  Abdikhader  Firdhiye  (mohammedaosman) Five Red Herrings by Doroty L.Sayers, my first novel of a giant in classic detective stories. Its alot of fun reading her prose but the dialogue with the scottish accents, slang is a real challenge ;)


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