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[Jannene]

I just finished . I really enjoyed that book. You learn a lot about Maura's background. I thought I knew what the ending was going to be like and I was so very wrong.

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I read Body Double last year and really liked it. Right now I am reading Capitol Threat by William Bernhardt. I am about 100 pages in and it is good.

[Mark]

Mark wrote: "Just a suggestion, I heard a great speaker, Nancy Pearl, she was librarian and actually has her own librarian action figure doll, (no lie)She has written several books , Book Lust, More Book Lust, ..."

James Lee Burke is a MASTER ..... period.

[Mark]

Mark wrote: "Just a suggestion, I heard a great speaker, Nancy Pearl, she was librarian and actually has her own librarian action figure doll, (no lie)She has written several books , Book Lust, More Book Lust, ..."

[Mark]

Just finished Need You Now by James Grippando and started Death's Half Acre by Margaret Maron, opposite ends of the spectrum, first is complicated with many twists, second is a sorta down home book about a large Southern family, like them both

[Jennifer]

Just finished Death at Wentwater Court and really liked it-- just ordered the next couple in the series. It was set in England in the roaring twenties, which is a time and place I find appealing anyway. The story hung together well and the characters were warmer and more sympathetic than I've typically encountered in this kind of mystery. (One flaw in this kind of mystery tends to be that the book is a cerebral exercise without the reader being able to establish any emotional contact with any but the ongoing detective character...).

[Laura]

I am going to put this out there for everyone! has anybody heard of the book "Oliver Poges Lives"? It's an older book, don't have authors name. Could try internet but more fun finding out here!

[Ellis]

I just finished Gone Groom Gone by Nancy Lauzon and loved it. It's funny, romantic, and a good mystery. I laughed until I had tears in some places and stayed up half the night to finish it.

[Mark]

Just starting two -Taken by Robert Crais-CD-and Bottom of the Ninth by Michael Shapiro

[Ellis]

Mark wrote: "Just starting two -Taken by Robert Crais-CD-and Bottom of the Ninth by Michael Shapiro"

I have Taken. Can't wait to start it. Robert Crais and Joe Pike are terrific. :-)

[Mark]

Joe Pike is right there with Jack Reacher, Jack Taylor, and Mitch Rapp when it comes to bad dudes.

[Ellis]

Mark wrote: "Joe Pike is right there with Jack Reacher, Jack Taylor, and Mitch Rapp when it comes to bad dudes."

Yes, he's a great character. LA Requiem is my favorite of Crais's books so far.

[Beth]

During my recent vacation to Mazatlan, along with scouring the galley proofs for Wicked Eddies for errors, I managed to read 2 mystery books while lounging by the pool or ocean. I enjoyed Carolyn Hart's Engaged to Die, and I very much enjoyed Nancy Pickard's The Whole Truth. In fact, I put the other two titles in that series on my to-read list, and my husband is reading THE WHOLE TRUTH now.

[Laura]

I"m reading Sector C by Phoenix Sullivan. I stumbled onto this book and I love it! Need to read this! Getting ready to start Between the Land and the Sea by Derrolyn Anderson.

[Mark]

My favorite Crais book is Hostage, which was made into a so-so movie with Bruce Willis.

[Tracy]

Lillie wrote: "Reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. What a fantastic book!"

Hey Lillie, I just finished The Graveyard Book and am now listening to The Anansi Boys by Gaiman. Both novels are very different but both kind of out there. What genre would you say he writes in?

[Jennifer]

Finished Why Shoot a Butler? day before yesterday. This dragged occasionally near the beginning but once it picked up, I raced through it. I love the English country home life it evoked and the sardonic nature of Amberly is quite humorous at times. I'll be reading more of these!

[Jannene]

I just finished . This was such an exciting book. Lee Child describes everything so you end up picturing yourself there as an observer just watching the story unfold. The plot was great and I was always wondering what was going to be next. You end up being outraged from the initial misunderstanding and how Jack Reacher ends up in the middle of this whole thing. I really liked Finlay and Reacher. They were such great characters. I am going to have to read the next in the series.

[Laura]

I really like his books and have grown to love Jack Reacher. I'll be reading this. Thanks.

[Mark]

Just started All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley, Leonid McGill series, always excellent

[Mark]

Starting Cleveland Cops by John Tidyman, John and I have played golf together and I always like his stuff.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Started The Anatomist's Apprentice this morning. So far it reads like a first novel, which it is. It's a historical, set in 1780 Britain.

[Jim]

Mark wrote: "Just started All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley, Leonid McGill series, always excellent"

I just started this book and like always Mosley delivers a good detective story.

[Jennifer]

Die Trying finished yesterday. Bad Luck And Trouble started today. Audio books. Amazing how many books you can add to your yearly reading by listening to one while you get dressed & put on your makeup for work.

[Snookie]

Jim wrote: "Mark wrote: "Just started All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley, Leonid McGill series, always excellent"

I just started this book and like always Mosley delivers a good detective story."

I just heard Walter Mosley on NPR. He spoke about this book. It sounds great. I need to get a copy.

[Snookie]

I'm reading a soft bound book that contains a collection of four books by four different writers. The first book is entitled Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks, the second is The Sentry by Robert Crais, the third is An Irish Country Courtship by Patrick Taylor, and the fourth is The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted by Bridget Asher. I've read the first, second and third and now I've just started the fourth. All three have been absolutely amazing. Reading three books from three very different writers one right after the next is just wonderful, especially for a budding writer like myself. Each of the writers have a different style and texture to their writing. I'm now anxious to really get into the fourth.

[Mark]

Starting Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos, love him

[Jim]

ZERO DAY by David Baldacci --the book is off to a good start

[Jannene]

I just finished P is for Peril. I liked it but not as much as the others. I can tell you I was anxious throughout some of it where she always does her breaking and entering. I just didn't care for the plot, I guess. It just didn't seem as well developed as the others and the ending left me somewhat confused.

[Kyle]

I am trying to read all the Alex Cross books by James Patterson and I am on Violets are blue right now.

[Mark]

Just started Night Vision by Randy Wayne White, a Doc Ford series, always excellent

[Jannene]

I just finished . This book wasn't predictable until you got toward the last 30 or so pages. I knew where it was going by then. It was a good read and kept me engaged. I really liked Stacey and grew to like Dolan. They are really nice gentlemen. As for Kinsey, I hope she ends up really becoming a part of her long, lost family. I'm sure I will see how that develops in the next few books.

[Beth]

I just finished reading Defending Jacob: A Novel . This is a excellent courtroom drama mystery. It starts slowly, drawing you in like an anaconda systematically squeezing its victim. By the time you reach the middle, you are trapped, the book stuck to your hands as the air is squeezed out of you. The story keeps changing as surprising revelations are casually dropped in your lap until you read the last two scenes with your mouth hanging open, finishing with a satisfying "Whoosh" for your last breath. Then the book lives with your for days afterward as you replay scenes in your mind. For me, that's what indicates a book deserves 5 stars. I highly recommend it!

[Jennifer]

So I had about 7 books going and wasn't making significant progress anywhere. Finished two, most of the way through most of the others, zeroed in last couple days on two of them: Bad Luck And Trouble on audio and The Tin Roof Blowdown. Enjoying both but The Tin Roof Blowdown-- well, first of all it's set right after Katrina which is horrific. Second, I recently read a book several books farther in in this series, one in which the main character never once mentioned his daughter- who has always been a main focus. So for him to NEVER mention her makes me think something awful happened. Now I'm reading one of the in-between books I missed- The Tin Roof Blowdown-- and reading every page with my heart in my throat, because the daughter is a character in this one and a psychopath has met her.....

[Tracy]

I am currently reading Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner and it is a really good book. It is very suspenseful and insightful. I am loving it.

[Mark]

Alafair in the books is named for James Lee Burke's real daughter, also an excellent author. If you read the first book in the series, you will read about how he rescused Alafair and adpted her from South America, book later mad into a movie starring Alec Baldwin, that idiot, as Dave Robicheaux. Book's name escapes me Heaven's something?

[Mark]

Just started Kill Shot by Vince Flynn love Mitch Rapp

[Mark]

Alafair appeared in Heaven's Prisoners, the 2nd Dave Robicheaux boo by JLB.

[Steve]

I'm a quarter the way through "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest" by Steigg Larsson. Just as addictive as the first two parts of the trilogy, though i think if you'll have to read the 2nd part to fully involve yourself in the plot of this as it not so much of an independent read. Enthralling nontheless

[Jennifer]

The Tin Roof Blowdown . Just finished this and I feel like I just drew breath for the first time in days. The tension was subtle but pervasive!

[Mark]

Just started What It Was by George Pelicanos, early Derek Strange, love the soundtrack always in the background of his books

[Mark]

Titan By Ron Chernow, biography of John D Rockefeller,
should be interesting

[Laura]

I just read and reviewed and am now starting

[Jennifer]

Ooh ooh, I just started a new (to me) mystery author and I'm only 20 pages in but I'm hooked! You Might As Well Die

[Deanne]

Just finished When Will There Be Good News by Atkinson, loved it. Atkinson weaves a great plot with lots of characters, but Jackson Brodie is the sort of guy you want on your side.

[Gary]

Jennifer wrote: "The Tin Roof Blowdown . Just finished this and I feel like I just drew breath for the first time in days. The tension was subtle but pervasive!"
I have read all of James lee Burke's books and have enjoyed each one. You are so right that they keep you on the edge of your seat!

[Mark]

Listening to The Hunter by John Lescoart, so far just Okay

[Laura]

I finished and started 8 Grads from Cal Tex and The Circle

[Jannene]

I just finished Shadow Zone. It was a really good book. I loved the under water city plot and how they developed it. I really liked all the characters in the story. I didn't see the ending coming but was very glad at how it turned out.

[Ellen]

in the Inspector Erlandur series-very good read (good series too)