Which thread is this?? (the mystery thread)

[Muddle head]

An open call to all crazy arsonists, serial killers, psychos, along with emotionally turmoiled FBI detectives, pretty dames turned femme fatales.

Not to forget genius software engineers like tuten chatterjee!

[Ahtims]

am reading Ngaio Marsh currently. 20th century mystery writer - her main character is Inspector Alleyn, his sidekicks being PC Fox, and friends Nigel Bathgate and Angela (Nige's fiancee). There;s lot of conversation in her books - just like Agatha Christie. Mystery is solved after repeated interviews with different suspects and finally cluing everything together. I enjoy reading such books

[Muddle head]

set in which country?

[Meenakshi]

Itts the same with Vikas Swarup's Six Suspects..
btw I still don't know what this thread is about...

[Ahtims]

Aacharya Didn't wrote: "set in which country?"

England.

[Avisek]

Guys, if you havent tried the book :Spandau Phoenix" by Greg Iles, I recommend it heavily...Based on interpolation as well as extrapolation, its a hell of a story with a WW II background....

[Sherin]

Haven't read a mystery in a long while..
It's high time :)

[Harsha]

I am reading Crisis by Robin Cook now. My first of his books. Just started it, no idea where it is going. Haven't read much in this genre either.

[Ahtims]

I love Robin Cook books, though most of them are based on the then popular medical discover or scandal and taken off from there. I love his lead medical detectives Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton

[Muddle head]

i've read FEVER i think, a father trying to save his child suffering from a rare disease...don't remember much of it, was an ok read, dats all!

[Harsha]

Smitha wrote: "I love Robin Cook books, though most of them are based on the then popular medical discover or scandal and taken off from there. I love his lead medical detectives Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton"
Those two are in this one too....

[Sherin]

I have read a number of books by him.
Coma and Chromosome-6 ,I remember.

[Meenakshi]

Harsha wrote: "I am reading Crisis by Robin Cook now. My first of his books. Just started it, no idea where it is going. Haven't read much in this genre either."

If its Robin Cook I'm sure its science fiction...

[Ahtims]

Robin Cook is not science fiction, as far as I know

[Sherin]

Medical fiction should be part of science fiction..
Isn't that a science?? :)

[Ahtims]

I thought science fiction was just UFOs and robots and 22nd century and such like. Will do a google search and let you know

[Ahtims]

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_...

[Meenakshi]

Smitha wrote: "Robin Cook is not science fiction, as far as I know"

and I thought that anything related to Science is science fiction..

[Harsha]

I am halfway through Crisis, and quite surprisingly am liking it so far. The major part of it (as far as i have read) is set in a courtroom, which could have easily put me off the book, but surprisingly it hasn't... And I have got a feeling I haven't got to the main point in the book yet..

[Ahtims]

Hurray. Discovered a new thriller author - Faye Kellerman, none other than the wife of Jonathan Kellerman of Alex Delaware series.
I am listening to her book Ritual Bath now. It has all the elements - suspense, romance, foreign culture, good descriptions, etc .
And to my luck, this is the first book of the series involving Peter Dekker, Rita Lazarus. I always end up reading from the middle of a series, but this time, I lucked out. So am going to hunt down her books and read those in order (once for a change)

[Kushagra]

Have you guys read any Lee Child books .... I really like them ... The protagonist of all his novels is Jack Reacher .... A guy who left the army ....

You must try them out

[Ahtims]

I have 61 hours with me

[Ahtims]

I mean I have the book '61 hours' somewhere in my book shelf which I plan to read later

[Kushagra]

you must ... it's good .. that's his latest actually !

[Muddle head]

Smitha wrote: "I have 61 hours with me"

lol, u cud have said "i have 61 hours left!" :P

[Kushagra]

yeah! after 1200 odd books ... you're allowed to say that :)

[Kushagra]

And oh ... have you guys tried out John Grisham .... The Partner is an exceptional book according to me ..

[Ahtims]

have read John Grisham, but am not a particular fan of courtroom drama

[Ahtims]

Kushagra wrote: "you must ... it's good .. that's his latest actually !"

LOL

[Avisek]

Anyone read agatha Christie's "The man in the brown suit"....

[Ahtims]

yes. I had read it a long time back.The title is familiar but dont remember the story line

[Priya]

I read it a long while ago and it is the most romantic of her mysteries.

[Avisek]

I dont know if you can recollect it but after reading her masterpiece "And then there were none", the story didnt compel me too much !!

[[deleted user]]

Smitha wrote: "Robin Cook is not science fiction, as far as I know"

One of his books, Abduction, can definitely be called science fiction, but that's still probably a significant departure from the genre he generally works in. In any case, I didn't particularly like that book...

[Avisek]

I just completed my 2nd book of Greg Iles "The black Cross"...and boy, he knows to weave in mystery, suspense, thrill, frill, love, hate, action and adventure all together....Totally recommended !

[Ahtims]

I have it with me. Will try to read it ASAP

[Ahtims]

just now finished a medical thriller dealing with neurosurgeons and their patients The Patient

[Avisek]

So, the first book of 2012 was The Murder on the Orient Express ?? I dont know but though it was highly enjoyable and entertaining, it somewhat fell short of the massive expectation I had about it.

[Muddle head]

then read the murder of roger ackroyd :)

[Ahtims]

Avisek wrote: "So, the first book of 2012 was The Murder on the Orient Express ?? I dont know but though it was highly enjoyable and entertaining, it somewhat fell short of the massive expectation I had about it."

I liked the book, and the movie too...

[Avisek]

@Aditya : That is the point. After having read, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Then There were none, this book didnt surprise me. I mean, I had a hunch this thing's gonna blow up in my face. I guess reading Christie makes you armored against any evil twists.
And I dont know if its only me, but I dont find Poirot's investigation methods enticing enough. May be his lack of quick calculations or the re-iteration of facts over and again ! I read Christie more for her plot than the star detective's antics.

[Ahtims]

Poirot is too conceited.

[Muddle head]

Avisek wrote: "@Aditya : That is the point. After having read, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Then There were none, this book didnt surprise me. I mean, I had a hunch this thing's gonna blow up in my face. I gue..."

Oh u already read that? Then i'd recommend the unexpected guest and the secret adversary. They got some pretty cool twists enought to twist and warp ur brain :)

I empathize with u on how u feel abt poirot, ididn't like him much either

[Avisek]

But now you do ?? How ??

[Muddle head]

now i do what?

I never said i liked Poirot, did I? I liked the Murder on the Orient Express as that was the first Christie i read, when i was 14, after reading an excerpt in our English TB. If at all i like any of Poirot starring novels, it's only for the plot twists - like the murder of Roger Ackroyd! Poirot was far too haughty to like. Sherlock though haughty enough, has got some really cool powers of deduction (thanks to Conan Doyle) which makes him more respectable than Poirot :D

[Avisek]

Ahh..Well.. actually your sentence read like 'I didnt like him much either'. I thought, may be you have changed your POV now. Thats why I asked how ??

And well, the exact same feeling about Poirot except that I find Poirot much more dull and dim witted than, say, Sherlock.

[Meenakshi]

I'm reading a book called Scheherazade and it so much more than anything sounds like mystery....the exact genre cannot be defined until the book is finished though!!
I don't know why but these days..the books I read are increasingly becoming the "guess the genre types"!!!

[Avisek]

Well said..For me too..The books are so replete with esoteric themes that they are hard to be classified...

I just read The girl with the dragon tattoo and I still dont know which genre should I classify it in..It deals with sadism, brutality, deranged people, financial journalism, revenge, suspense..

[Muddle head]

wudn't it be a psychological thriller?

[Kunal]

In the Holmes cannon, the characters were much better written. Poirot had the richer plots. I love Conan Doyle and I revere Christie.