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[Jan]

I just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It's nonfiction but I still recommend it highly to this group. This is another selection for my book club and I foresee a great discussion. The author did an amazing job of compiling all the different threads that make up this story of HeLa cells and presenting it in a readable format that doesn't let you put it down. Henrietta, Deborah and other Lackses come alive and we feel their frustration of trying to understand what happened to them. As a society we owe Henrietta Lacks recognition for her unwitting contribution of her tissue. This book is a good step towards that recognition.

[Tawnya]

Julie wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "'Bout done with Voodoo River. Good read!"

I adore Robert Crais!One of my favorite authors of any genre. It always makes me happy when I see someone else reading h..."

Agree. I love Robert Crais. I may or may not have a huge crush on Joe Pike ;)

[Deanne]

Reading Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill, just feel a lot of sympathy for the long suffering Pascoe.

[Tracy]

I just finished Kill Me If You Can. The library has a waiting list for it so I had to put aside Summer Knight to read Patterson. Now that I am finished I have to read Die Trying because it is on a waiting list as well.
Hmmm...I don't think anyone ever gets the books back so quickly when I am on the waiting list :(

[Jennifer]

Just finished Roast Mortem and Deep Shadow. Glad to see the group is reading The Tin Roof Blowdown because I really want to read that and Swan Peak.

[Sue]

The Tin Roof Blowdown is so good. I think it's Burke's best.

I just picked up John Sanford's latest, Shock Wave. My name came up for it now so I'll fit it in with the other non-mysteries I'm reading.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Currently re-reading Whose Body?, by the marvelous Dorothy L. Sayers. The start of one of my favorite mystery series.

[G.]

I just finished reading Drowning Ruth and i really enjoyed it -its a thriller / mystery.
On another note, i just published my own mystery set in the southwest so hope you get to check it out! you can download a free sample on smashwords

[Susan]

Julian Barnes's Booker contender Sense of an Ending and Hilary Mantel's Vacant Possession from the 1980's can both be read enjoyably as mysteries. They are both about time, the first recollection and the second retribution.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Started No Graves As Yet earlier this afternoon. It's a historical espionage/murder mystery, set in 1914.

[Dia]

I am about 2/3 of the way through Karin Slaughter's Fallen. I always like her writing, and this one is no exception. It has been hard to not flip forward and see what was going to happen. Must. Read. Faster!

[David]

I'm reading Phantom Prey by John Sandford. I shouldn't have waited so long to read his works again. Good writer.

[Sue]

David wrote: "I'm reading Phantom Prey by John Sandford. I shouldn't have waited so long to read his works again. Good writer."

The Prey books really are excellent and well written. It's good to read them somewhat in order as there are recurring threads and characters.

I just finished the latest Virgil Flowers book Shock Wave. He started as a character in the Prey books, I believe, and has graduated to his own series too.

[Denise]

I started "Acceptable Loss" yesterday (Anne Perry's Monk) but left it at my daughters, so to the bookcase I went this morning...I don't know why I left "One of our Thursday's is Missing" untouched SO long but god I LOVE Jasper Fforde, his style and storyline! Have to set it aside now and finish Perry's (I don't like reading more than one book at a time; I'm funny that way). It's very hard for me to describe his style, but if you haven't tried him, "The Eyre Affair" is the first in this series :)

[Jennifer]

Just finished All the Flowers Are Dying and am halfway through No Rest for the Wiccan .

[Tracy]

I started The Girl Next Door and I am halfway through it. It is a very sad and emotional book. I want to shake Dave and ask him how he can justify his neighbors actions. How can he stand by and watch!

[Maryellen]

I am currently reading "Smilla's Sense of Snow" by Peter Hoeg. This has been a pleasant surprise as I have not read this author previously. Very strong female lead, intricate descriptions of everything from climate to geology. Reminds me of LeCarre's style. I just joined so thanks for the accept!

[Linda]

Started by Karin Slaughter today - love her!!!!

[Jennifer]

Finished All the Flowers Are Dying . I love that series. I have Connelly's up next. Also just read No Rest for the Wiccan -- the fourth in the series and she finally has the main character delving into the "witch" theme to a greater extent. Also about to start Murder Takes the Cake to finish up a challenge.

[Maryellen]

I have randomly been reading stories from "The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories". Most of these are turn of the 19th century up to about 1920's so they are pretty tame but they are written in the very formal classic form so it's a nice change of pace. I would recommend for anyone who likes the classical story form and style. Not all are truly great but most are fun.

[R.P.]

Uneasy Spirits, by M. Louisa Locke http://tinyurl.com/3lcb54n
This is Ms. Locke’s delightful sequel to Maids of Misfortune, and the second in the Annie Fuller historical mystery series. Set in the late 1800’s in one of my favorite cities, San Francisco, California, I felt like I was there, walking these streets as they were a hundred years ago.
By day, Annie Fuller makes her living as the proprietor of a respectable and well established boarding house, but at night, she becomes Madame Sybil, fortune teller. Annie may have been brought up studying finance at her father’s knee, but this is the only way any grown man in the 1800’s will accept the financial advice from a twenty-six year old woman, much less pay for the privilege. And, Annie, has finally found someone who isn’t like her dead husband in the attractive young lawyer, Nate Dawson whose awkwardness around Annie, is both touching and charming.
The story opens with the scene in which we witness the murder of an elderly woman, and in a totally separate venue, we’re introduced to a very strange young girl. The two incidents, we later learn, are intricately woven together and the result will culminate in a surprise ending.
Annie gets involved when one of her boarders, Miss Pinehurst, fearing for her sister’s sanity, begs Annie to help her prove that the clairvoyants her sister insists upon paying, are fake. Stepping into the world of Simon and Arabella Frampton, Annie is sure that Miss Pinehurst is right and determines to expose them… until she meets with Evie May, the odd child we saw in the beginning.
Evie May is a chameleon, a child whose different personas are used by the unscrupulous Simon and Arabella Frampton as a way of making lots of money.
But, there’s a more sinister plot underway here between the Framptons and a shadowy figure who is actually directing the whole show from the sidelines.
Nate and Annie become pawns of this person’s nefarious plans, and though we don’t find out who this person is until almost the end, there’s every reason to believe that one or both of these young people may become the next victim.
This is a skillfully crafted mystery with wonderful recurring characters who are the kind of people that live with the reader long after the book is finished. And of course, the bad and really bad characters get what’s coming to them… perfect!
Last, but not least, when I read this book I was reminded of one of my favorite historical mystery authors, Anne Perry. I’ve read almost all of her books, and I can honestly say that Ms. Lock’s work is right up there with Anne Perry’s.

RPDahlke #10topkindle/mystery/amateursleuth author
A DEAD RED CADILLAC
A DEAD RED HEART
A DANGEROUS HARBOR

[R.P.]

Uneasy Spirits, by M. Louisa Locke
Uneasy Spirits: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery

This is Ms. Locke’s delightful sequel to Maids of Misfortune, and the second in the Annie Fuller historical mystery series. Set in the late 1800’s in one of my favorite cities, San Francisco, California, I felt like I was there, walking these streets as they were a hundred years ago.
By day, Annie Fuller makes her living as the proprietor of a respectable and well established boarding house, but at night, she becomes Madame Sybil, fortune teller. Annie may have been brought up studying finance at her father’s knee, but this is the only way any grown man in the 1800’s will accept the financial advice from a twenty-six year old woman, much less pay for the privilege. And, Annie, has finally found someone who isn’t like her dead husband in the attractive young lawyer, Nate Dawson whose awkwardness around Annie, is both touching and charming.
The story opens with the scene in which we witness the murder of an elderly woman, and in a totally separate venue, we’re introduced to a very strange young girl. The two incidents, we later learn, are intricately woven together and the result will culminate in a surprise ending.
Annie gets involved when one of her boarders, Miss Pinehurst, fearing for her sister’s sanity, begs Annie to help her prove that the clairvoyants her sister insists upon paying, are fake. Stepping into the world of Simon and Arabella Frampton, Annie is sure that Miss Pinehurst is right and determines to expose them… until she meets with Evie May, the odd child we saw in the beginning.
Evie May is a chameleon, a child whose different personas are used by the unscrupulous Simon and Arabella Frampton as a way of making lots of money.
But, there’s a more sinister plot underway here between the Framptons and a shadowy figure who is actually directing the whole show from the sidelines.
Nate and Annie become pawns of this person’s nefarious plans, and though we don’t find out who this person is until almost the end, there’s every reason to believe that one or both of these young people may become the next victim.
This is a skillfully crafted mystery with wonderful recurring characters who are the kind of people that live with the reader long after the book is finished. And of course, the bad and really bad characters get what’s coming to them… perfect!
Last, but not least, when I read this book I was reminded of one of my favorite historical mystery authors, Anne Perry. I’ve read almost all of her books, and I can honestly say that Ms. Lock’s work is right up there with Anne Perry’s.

RP Dahlke, #10TopKindle/mystery/amateursleuth author
A DEAD RED CADILLAC
A DEAD RED HEART
A DANGEROUS HARBOR

[Jennifer]

About 2/3 through Cruise of a Deathtime and thoroughly enjoying it. Glad I'm not on that ship, though!

[Maryellen]

I am reading "Fragile" by Lisa Unger currently. I have not read any of her other work so I am wondering if I should try another of hers. This is a decent story and mystery of a sort but it is not as well done as I thought.

[Ellen]

I'm reading "The Snowman" By Jo Nesbo. I love it! My daughter says she is getting tired of my Scandinavian obsession, but I'm sure not.

[Linda]

Kyle wrote: "I recently finished an excellent mystery book, and I recommend it highly: Never Look Away: A Thriller"

Hi Kyle, I simply love Linwood Barclay, I stumbled upon him by accident.

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I'm reading a crime novel set in Grosse Pointe Michigan. I love it, so far:

[Jan]

I just finished The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry last night and enjoyed it immensely. It's one of my current favourite series and always look forward to the next one.
I recommend this series to all mystery fans :)

[Skip]

I'm reading The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny's 3rd book in her Three Pines Series. I've fallen quite in love with Chief Inspector Gamashe. The action takes place in a small village outside Quebec & the local color is well rendered.

Gamashe is a wonderful character - somewhat like Donna Leon's Inspector Brunetti and, even older, Simenon's Inspector Maigret. They are thoughtful, complex, & compassionate human beings.

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I'm recently started A Grand Murder. Fast pace. Will have a review up by the first of the week.

[Libby]

In the middle of THomas Perry's THE INFORMANT, one of his Butcher's Boy sequels. WOnderful!!

[Jennifer]

Reading The Closers . Love Harry Bosch.

[Beth]

I'm reading Harlan Coben's Live Wire and finding it to be very enjoyable. Now I'll have to go back and catch up on the other nine books in the series that preceded it!

[Linda]

I'm reading Black Out, by Lisa Unger. It was a little slow getting started. But I am really enjoying this one now.

[Jennifer]

So in addition to The Closers and Up Jumps the Devil I find I've also started A Drop of the Hard Stuff . Love Harry Bosch, love Deborah Knott, love Matt Scudder.

The holidays are the season of love.

[Jennifer]

Kyle wrote: "I love the Harry Bosch series, too, Jennifer. So far I've read "

Haven't read Lost Light yet but read the other three. You should try The Narrows and Trunk Music.

[Jannene]

I just finished reading this book. Not really a mystery but it still was an enjoyable book.All Through the Night

[Dia]

Beth wrote: "I'm reading Harlan Coben's Live Wire and finding it to be very enjoyable. Now I'll have to go back and catch up on the other nine books in the series that preceded it!"
LOVE that series. Between Myron, Win, and Big Chief Mama, those books never fail to make me laugh out loud.

[Jannene]

I just finished listening to by Daniel Silva. It was a good story. However, I did not care for the narrator. I think I would have enjoyed the book much more than the audio version. I'm going to start The Messenger by Daniel Silva and . by Patricia Cornwell.

[Ellis]

Jennifer wrote: "Kyle wrote: "I love the Harry Bosch series, too, Jennifer. So far I've read

[Deanne]

Reading Lost River by Stephen Booth.

[Mark]

I've caught up with C.J. Box's "Joe Pickett" series, I think...immensely enjoyable for, both the storyline and the humanity of the characters, both main and periphery...am I the only one who has been floored by Box???

[LeeAnne]

Mark wrote: "I've caught up with C.J. Box's "Joe Pickett" series, I think...immensely enjoyable for, both the storyline and the humanity of the characters, both main and periphery...am I the only one who has be..."

No, you're not Mark! About 10 years ago I read a review of Box's first book in the Rocky Mountain news the week it was published and I bought the book. I have been a huge fan ever since and have actually gone to book signings for the last 8 Joe Pickett books and all three of his stand-alones. Mr. Box is as charming and interesting in person as you would expect him to be. So glad he continues to gather readers!

[Deanne]

Reading Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen, very funny.

[Jennifer]

Finished The Closers today-- really liked it. Also Up Jumps the Devil. Still reading A Drop of the Hard Stuff and am completely sucked in. Also about a quarter through Where There's a Witch for a lighter mystery.

[Jim]

I just finished The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin. I was lucky enough to be given a copy by a friend visiting from England (it was just published in the UK, so I don't think it's available in the US yet). Always enjoy Rankin and I enjoyed this book as well. Rankin is doing a good job of developing Malcolm Fox, his new character. The story revolves around the struggle for Scottish separatism during the 1980's; that's not history I'm aware of, so It was nice to learn a bit about it while reading a good mystery

[Jannene]

I just finished listening to . I really do like these books. I'm addicted and told Linda I would wait until next year to finish the series but I just can't.

I'm 1/2 way through and this is a book that sucks you right in. I love the plot of this story and am now going to finish it.

[Jannene]

I just finished . I really enjoyed this book. I was totally caught up in story. I couldn't imagine who could kill all of these couples. The story kept giving just little bread crumbs until you were told who did it at the end. I love books that do this where you have no idea who had done it until the bitter end.

I think I'll start now.

[Beth]

I just finished Cutting for Stone, which was a phenomenal read, even though it's not a mystery, but a family saga. The author is a doctor, so there are a lot of medical situations in the book, and the India/Ethiopia/US settings are very interesting. I learned a lot!

I've started reading an old favorite, Murder on the Orient Express. Since I'm writing a variant of a locked-room mystery (a group of whitewater rafters stuck in a remote river canyon with a killer, in my case), I thought I'd return to this locked-room mystery written by a master, for inspiration.

[Jannene]

I just finished . I loved this book and couldn't put it down. I adored the characters and found myself laughing at some of their jabs to each other. The story took many turns and I had no idea who did it until it was laid out for me. It was a very enjoyable read and cannot wait to read the next one.