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[Deb]

Sharon......love Mary Higgins Clark! 📚📚

[Sharon, Moderator]

Deb wrote: "Sharon......love Mary Higgins Clark! 📚📚"

Enjoyed many of her books over the decades but just haven't gotten back to her in ages and should as it is usually a GOOD read. Currently I am swamped and also not having enough READING TIME....so many of the authors I follow have published at the same time AGAIN and I have so many downloaded automatically I don't know when I will catch myself up.... LOL...

[Sharon, Moderator]

One of my absolutely favourite book series! Absolutely enjoyed every one of the BRUNO series...cannot wait for this one. On pre order ! The Templars Last Secret ...Martin Walker.

[Sharon, Moderator]

Reading currently Peter James' latest in the Roy Grace series, Need You Dead. Enjoyed this series but IMO the books just get longer and longer. Good procedures though and characters........

[Thomas]

I just finished The Breakdown
The book dragged on too much in the first half. 3 stars. My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Thomas]

Just finished. No Turning Back
My review, 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Miss M]

Sharon wrote: "Reading currently Peter James' latest in the Roy Grace series, Need You Dead. Enjoyed this series but IMO the books just get longer and longer. Good procedures though and characters........"

I think I'm done with Roy Grace now. Glad I stuck it through to see the Sandy issue resolved (mostly) and I don't think I have the patience for some of the upcoming plot twists telegraphed in the latest book (strange connection of police boss and son/ongoing saga of serial killer from past storyline). It was a good run but getting tiresome for me. Plenty more on the TBR piles to take its place! :)

[Sharon, Moderator]

Miss M wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Reading currently Peter James' latest in the Roy Grace series, Need You Dead. Enjoyed this series but IMO the books just get longer and longer. Good procedures though and characters...."

Oh, thank you so much! I was afraid I was alone in this! After reading all his books and all the Roy Grace I could not agree with you more! Too long as well. He just really gives to many thoughts and ideas to many words and pages. The stories are NOT crafted tightly enough and I actually was bored reading this and could easily put it down .... Sure enjoyed the series in the early days but yes, I am done too!

[Sandy]

Miss M wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Reading currently Peter James' latest in the Roy Grace series, Need You Dead. Enjoyed this series but IMO the books just get longer and longer. Good procedures though and characters...."

I gave up a couple of books ago, just couldn't take any more of the dragged out "Sandy" story line so I'm glad to hear it's finally been resolved.

[Thomas]

Yesterday I finished Lola I recommend it, 4*
My review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Deb]

Texas Trilogy by Sandra Brown

[Sharon, Moderator]

On order.....
Two Nights, Kathy Reichs, STAND ALONE June 30, 2017 Pre-order iBook.....sounds good.

Currently reading the latest in the series by Martin Walker. Bruno set in the Perigord, France. The Templars' Last Secret, June 2017. Really enjoy this series....

[Miss M]

Sharon wrote: "On order.....
Two Nights, Kathy Reichs, STAND ALONE June 30, 2017 Pre-order iBook.....sounds good.

Currently reading the latest in the series by Martin Walker. Bruno set in the Perigord, France. T..."

I loved Bruno too! Saving the new one for the next holiday weekend. Enjoy!

[Jess]

Just finished reading The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei. It's a Hong Kong based detective mystery, not quite hard boiled or thriller type, rather like traditional mysteries like Sherlock Holmes. First I was a bit confused with unfamiliar names of people and locations, but the characters are quite lively and the story is very interesting. Great book if you haven't tried yet. Would love to read more from the same author.

[Thomas]

I just finished. MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
My review, 4.5 *https://www.amazon.com/review/R31BFMY...

[Deb]

Texas Trilogy by Sandra Brown

[Sandy]

Currently reading

[Deb]

Carve of the Mark by Vernonica Roth

[Sandy]

Starting

[Salma]

The Couple Next Door

[Sandy]

Very creepy, great MC...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sharon, Moderator]

Just started Sleep Baby Sleep #4. Detective Pieter Vos. June 1, 2017. Pre ordered iBook. .....one needs to seriously make allowances for the naive typical foreigner attempt to paint Amsterdam as a drug ladden, sex crazed city....sadly, the writer has been quite good until this fourth book, but now he is letting go I suspect in an attempt to make his series seem more gritty. In four and a half decades I've never seen all this as he portrays it, in our major elegant, cultural city!! What problems we experience from foreign tourists acting like wild children is indeed a problem.... I hope this book will improve or I will drop it and the writer.

[Sandy]

Started

[Sharon, Moderator]

RANT: I so miss the days before Amazon bought out GRs. Now I mark a book as read and get two emails within minutes analyzing everything and giving unwanted advice on what next etc etc. VERY intrusive and unwanted. Done!

[Sharon, Moderator]

Brand new out today DCI Banks Sleeping in the Ground, Peter Robinson downloaded today!

[Sharon, Moderator]

For those new this is a valuable source. Also great to follow on Facebook. Excellent listings and links.
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com

[Sandy]

Love that site! Finally got my hands on

[Sharon, Moderator]

Interesting read. Enjoy.

[Sharon, Moderator]

Amnesia, Michael Ridpath......just finished and gave it 5/5! If you enjoy a good mystery and puzzles this is a good read......

[Sharon, Moderator]

Two Nights by Kathy Reichs....a writer I've read for over two decades was a page turner but personally I was very disappointed. Guns, guns, guns.....

[Sandy]

Currently reading The Frozen Woman

[Thomas]

I just finished Mind's Eye
I gave it 4*. I read it based on the recommendation of a Swedish man that I met on a cruise last year.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Deb]

The Lake House by Kate Morton ✅

[Sharon, Moderator]

Thomas wrote: "I just finished Mind's Eye
I gave it 4*. I read it based on the recommendation of a Swedish man that I met on a cruise last year.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

Ah the VV series...very nice reads and IMO a good series of books. The curiosity of location continues throughout the series. I bought the two box sets of the tv films too and enjoyed that the actors really were in alignment with the characters in the books which I have read from start to finish over the years. There are 10 Van Veeteren books all in all. Barbarotti books series not translated yet.
NOTE two DVD box sets from Amazon of the Van Veeteren series.

Håkan Nesser has two standalone books out that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The Living and the Dead in Winsford Håkan Nesser, July 2,2015. Set in Exmoor. iBook. 5/5 **** √
A Summer with Kim Novac. 1998/2015. iBook. .....4/5 **** √
Always search by Håkan Nesser, or you will come up with strange and incomplete listings.
More on this author in Scandinavian and Nordic Mysteries Thrillers GROUP.

[Thomas]

Sharon wrote: "Thomas wrote: "I just finished Mind's Eye
I gave it 4*. I read it based on the recommendation of a Swedish man that I met on a cruise last year.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/r..."

Thanks Sharon

[Bill]

I love the wall the series just for your information there's a good video series Swedish TV BBC

[Bill]

that'sWallender series. on Netflix liked both series but the Swedish version best

[Sandy]

Currently reading
(Jack Taylor series)

[Rhonda]

I am reading Hell and High Water by Peter Heller.

[Deb]

The Husbands Secret

[Sharon, Moderator]

Just started spending some time in Valencia with the latest book by Jason Webster, Fatal Sunset, Max Camera #6. :-)

[Mark]

Puzo the Siciian

[Jess]

Currently reading Magpie Murders . Found about this book from Goodreads blog and so far interesting.

[Manugw]

House of Spies, Daniel Silva, Silva has been continuously improving particularly in his recent issues.

[Janie]

Just finished, "Quietly, in their Sleep," by Donna Leon.

[Steven]

I don't know where to put this, so I'll put it here. The first mystery I ever read was The Caves of Steel, soon to be followed by The Naked Sun, both by Isaac Asimov. I'm interested in that cross-over genre, the sci-fi mystery. The last one I read was Adam-Troy Castro's Emissaries of the Dead. Can anyone add some novels to this list? I'd appreciate it. The combo fascinates me. I read other mysteries and thrillers too, but a sci-fi mystery seems to start with a tremendous advantage because sci-fi is already mysterious!
r/Steve

[Sharon, Moderator]

Manugw wrote: "House of Spies, Daniel Silva, Silva has been continuously improving particularly in his recent issues."

Reading this right now too. Amazing.....

[Evgenia]

Just read The Labyrinth of the Spirits, the fourth and last installment to Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Cemetery of Forgotten Books universe. I recommend all four novels in this universe to everyone, it combines all the genres under the sun, it reminds you of why you love reading, and it was literally life-changing for me.

[Steven]

Jenny Zi,
I read the first two...in Spanish. Reviewed them both (on my blog, not GR) in both English and Spanish. It's hard for me to understand how Ruiz Zafon could continue because it seemed that #2 wrapped things up. If they're not too expensive, I'll check out 3 and 4--1 was borrowed and 2 was a gift!
I considered #1 and 2 to be homages to writing, bookstores, and libraries--an unusual theme maybe no longer appropriate in America? If I remember correctly, they also negatively reflect on the Spanish central government and positively on the independence-minded people of Catalun~a...readers can at least see where the animosity springs from.
r/Steve

[Miss M]

Steven wrote: "I don't know where to put this, so I'll put it here. The first mystery I ever read was The Caves of Steel, soon to be followed by The Naked Sun, both by Isaac Asimov. I'm interested in that cross-o..."

Not usually a sub-genre (mash-up?) that appeals to me, but I'd heard good things about Great North Road and ended up giving it four stars once I tried it. Definitely recommend for an entertaining read. It's a chunkster, though!