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I loved The Hum and the Shiver.


Like Grandma!! I'm always wanting to read the next book just to see what crazy grandma does in it. The book with her and the coffin falling on her and pulling the guy's thumb off had me literally in tears. People at work thought I was crazy.

I'm glad to hear they can be read out of order. Thank you! I have a few from her and various books throughout the series. I hate reading series out of order because sometimes they build on each other.


that take me to exotic lands. I don't know if there is any mystery here. This book is written by Kunal Basu


I love this series of books as well as Sandford's Virgil Flowers series. I recently went all the way back to "Rules of Prey" because it had been years since I had started at the beginning and refreshed myself on the Lucasverse. I just finished up "Buried Prey" a couple of days ago. Even though I had already read it when it was released in the spring, I still felt compelled to complete the cycle. (laughing at myself) He's such a bad boy in those first several books. I'm always amazed with his early years. Not that he's become tamed over time... just older and wiser, I think. I love the way JS has matured and deepened this intriguing character's personality and relationships over time and through his personal, as well as shared, experiences. Just like real life, or, I suppose, we all aim for that, at least! I'm glad you enjoyed Lucas, and I encourage you to get out there to your local bookstore or library and grab "Shadow Prey". Then once you've read "Invisible Prey" (the book where we all meet "that effin flowers"), then go purchase or check out "Dark of the Moon", the first Virgil Flowers novel. Read them in order if you can manage it and hang onto your butt! All of the Davenport and Flowers books are wild rides! Happy Reading! (hugs)

I really liked this one. I listened to it, as well!

I know what you mean she's my 'guilty pleasure' and I agree the plot lines are getting very thin. To be honest I think it's Ranger that keeps me coming back.




Have you read any others by this author?

I read this series also and like them. They are very good.
Marjorie wrote: "I just finished reading Judith Rock's The Eloquence of Blood. It's the second of her Charles du Luc series. The first was The Rhetoric of Death. They are set in Fran..."
Hi Marjorie, I really enjoyed The Rhetoric of Death she certainly balances history and mystery very well.
Hi Marjorie, I really enjoyed The Rhetoric of Death she certainly balances history and mystery very well.
Bird wrote: "Barbara wrote: "I finished Rules Of Prey by John Sandford. It's the first in the Lucas Davenport series. The plot was good and the characters interesting. I enjoyed it and would recomm..."
I just started Rules of Prey, which I've never read, because I am planning to watch Mark Hamon's movie of the Prey series.
I just started Rules of Prey, which I've never read, because I am planning to watch Mark Hamon's movie of the Prey series.

I really liked that book in that series along with




I MUST read in order :) but


now starting with




now starting with

I read VIGIL a couple of months ago and it exceeded my expectations. At the time I was actually looking for Masello's Blood and Ice. I still haven't read BLOOD AND ICE, come to think of it...off to search the shelves again.

How did you like Nicola Upson, Jane? This is the series with Josephine Tey as main character, right?


now starting with

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I am really enjoying it so far. I have blood and ice on my to read shelf too


I really don't think Constant Gardener is one of LeCarre's best. The whole Smiley series, starting with
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / the Looking-Glass War through Smiley's People are vintage LeCarre.
Other books where you will really love the main character are The Russia Houseand The Tailor of Panama. I've read everything of LeCarre's up through Constant Gardener and think either LeCarre is burned out or I am.

I really don't think Constant Gardener is one of LeCarre's best. The w..."
I can't say you're wrong about Le Carre, Ken. He seemed to have a sort of crisis of content with the end of the Cold War. But I thought he hit a new stride with Constant Gardener. I also enjoyed it, but then I was living in East Africa at the time and "smuggled" copies to friends in Kenya. We thought we were so cool.



I really enjoyed both of the Nicola Upson books although I think An Expert in Murder was the better story. I think the author has really done her research on Josephine Tey. She talks about Inverness (my home town) and the Highlands as if she really knows the area -I like that aspect very much. Also she makes the characters of Josepine and Archie very likeable and I already have the third book Two for Sorrow from the library waiting to be read.
If you read them I would be really interested to know what you think. :)


I'm currently reading this and really liking it a lot. Puller reminds me of Jack Reacher.

I just finished the third one. I enjoyed all three. I was surprised to learn that the case "Josephine" was researching was an actual case - about baby farming and the implications the case had for various people around her.

I loved Rhetoric of Death and have #2 to read as well. We discussed it with our in person historical group and it was one of the best discussions we'd had. We were fortunate to have in the group an expert in the Louis XIV period. Amazing fun!

I read the Coffin Trail long ago, but really enjoyed it a lot. I went on to read some more of Martin Edwards books because it was so good. He's a very fine writer.



Just finished The Novice's Tale, a good first entry in the series. Will continue if I can find the next books.
Am also reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, the first section of which is profoundly disturbing.
Am also reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, the first section of which is profoundly disturbing.

He definitely has some Jack qualities, although, I find his "tough guy with a secret tender heart" persona very similar to Robert Crais's Joe Pike. His loyalty to the country and his job... Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp.
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