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[Mark]

Just began Private #1 Suspect by James Patterson, these books read very quickly

[Jennifer]

Still reading You Might As Well Die and thoroughly enjoying it but finished my last audio and had to start a new mystery there, too: The Brass Verdict .

[Mark]

A little change up, The Pint Man by Steve Rushin, just started

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

The Old Man in the Corner, by Baroness Orczy.

[Betsy]

Working on My Name is Mary Sutter -

[Ellen]

I'm reading two-both of which are good: Christopher Fowler's Seventy-Seven Clocks and The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten. They're very different: Fowler's is 19th century British transposed to 1973 and Tursten's is Swedish noir, very dark.

[Jannene]

I just finished Bleeding Hearts: A Novel for my book club read. I didn't like this book. It was way too slow for my tastes. I didn't care for any of the characters in the book. The PI is a slimy guy who reminds me of the salesman stereotype. The Texan did add a little to the book. The ending caught me completely by surprise. I had never had an inkling that would be the conclusion to this novel.

[Tracy]

Mark wrote: "Just began Private #1 Suspect by James Patterson, these books read very quickly"

I read this on recently Mark and you are correct. It seems I could get through a Patterson book in a few hours.

[Linda]

Started by James Patterson, have wanted to start the Michael Bennett series for a while now.

[Barry]

Check out my first e-book available on the Amazon Kindle store. "Unforgivable" is about a bored suburban housewife, a child that won't leave his room for his first day of high school and a shocking conclusion that will leave you speechless. Available for only 99 cents!

[Barry]

Barry wrote: "Check out my first e-book available on the Amazon Kindle store. "Unforgivable" is about a bored suburban housewife, a child that won't leave his room for his first day of high school and a shockin..."

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[Barry]

Barry wrote: "Barry wrote: "Check out my first e-book available on the Amazon Kindle store. "Unforgivable" is about a bored suburban housewife, a child that won't leave his room for his first day of high school..."

Also available on the Nook for the same price of 99 cents!

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[Mark]

Janene,
When was Bleeding Hearts released, I have read most of Ian Rankin and don't remember this one.
Thanks,
Mark

[Jannene]

Mark wrote: "Janene,
When was Bleeding Hearts released, I have read most of Ian Rankin and don't remember this one.
Thanks,
Mark"

It was released in 1994.

[Betsy]

Finished If Wishes Were Horses and cried my eyeballs out- yeah, it was good. I don't know if I like crying though...:D

[Dia]

Tracy wrote: "Mark wrote: "Just began Private #1 Suspect by James Patterson, these books read very quickly"

I read this on recently Mark and you are correct. It seems I could get through a Patterson book in a f..."

*L* I think it is because there is so much blank space in his books. The chapters are two or three pages long, then you have blank space at the end of the chapter, and a half of a page of blank space at the beginning of the next chapter. Makes for a speedy fast read. :~)

[Jannene]

I just finished . I really enjoyed it. It had a slow start but the plot and development of the characters made up for it. You start liking Reba in the beginning but toward the end you grow to dislike her and then she surprises you.

[Dee]

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

Great series but some are definitely better than others!!

[Jennifer]

Finally finished all but one of the last batch of simul-books. (the one is an audio and I still have a few car trips to go before it's finished...) Chose the next group and started starting them yesterday:
The Brass Verdict (audio I'm finishing)
And Then There Were None
Truly, Madly
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Winter Garden Mystery
The Borgia Bride
The Ghost and the Dead Deb
Murder With Peacocks
Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Play
The Affair: A Reacher Novel
The Kitchen Witch

All of them fit at least one challenge I'm in at the moment, and one is my first pen-pal read!

[Ellen]

Just finished -a little slow at times but came through in the end. I love this series.

[Betsy]

Just started Beauty of the Beast -a short touching set of stories about animals who rescue or aid their owners. The author spends alot of time explaining why this is not an anmorphical ? viewpoint. I get it all-ready. Just give me the sappy stories,please.

[Mark]

Picked up Nothing But Trouble by Michael McGarrity for 50 cents at the library, just started not sure if I read it as yet. Getting too old

[Mark]

Kyle,
I would strongly recommend I Would Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman, as well, good read.
Mark

[Mark]

Starting to listen to The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny, Inspector Gamache, always excellent.

[Jannene]

I just finished and it was okay. I didn't care for it like I did the others. This book seemed really slow paced and never got up to moderate speed.

[Deborah]

Just finished Mary Higgins Clark 'All Around The Town'.
It was interesting. Now reading 'Finger Lickin' Fifteen' by Janet Evanovich. Needed to take a break from some of the more intense mysteries. Next in line is Robert K. Tanenbaum 'The Enemy Within'.

[Jennifer]

I'm reading a slew of books at the moment. One of them is And Then There Were None which for some reason I expected to be kind of a chore. However it's really captured my attention. Good mystery!

[Jannene]

I just finished . This was a good story with likable characters. It had a slow start and really took some time to get consumed in it. However, once it got going I didn't want to put the book down. The ending caught me by surprise.

[Tracy]

Jannene wrote: "I just finished . This was a good story with likable characters. It had a slow start and really took some time to get consumed in it. However, once it got going I didn't wan..."

Have you read the other Rizzoli & Isles series? You souls give them a try Jannene if you haven't. They are all pretty good, especially the older ones.

[Jannene]

I've read through the first 5. I really loved The Surgeon and Body Double.

[Tracy]

I did to Jannene. My favorite is Ice Cold. It's one of her newer ones.

[Jannene]

Oh, I'm getting there. I really like that series. I keep wanting to finish all the series that I started but I have so many going it is hard to finish one. ;)

[Jim]

WHAT IT WAS by Pelecanos - great start in first few chapters

[Mark]

Jannene,
Not a big fan of Patricia Cornwell any more, read all of her early books but have not enjoyed the later books.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I read the first ... four? or five? books in Patricia Cornwell's series, and gave up. I didn't like where it was going. Enjoyed the first ones, though.

[Jannene]

I finished . I did like this book and enjoyed the story. I liked how she would go back in time and have the story recreated by the characters on the days leading to the event. It was an interesting read from their perspective. However, Kinsey usually ties the entire story in a big bow. Meaning, you know all the answers to the questions throughout the book. That was not the case in this story which really irked me. I like closure and I don't feel that I had that with this book which is why I gave it just a 3 star. The characters are likable with the exception of Violet. I found her some big floozy which I couldn't stand. I feel the reader was let down a little since the story didn't seem complete with all the questions addressed.

[Tracy]

I am currently listening to D.C. Dead and Gone Tomorrow and reading Death Sentence. I would recommend all of them. Of course they are all part of a series so you would need to start at the beginning but they are all worth reading.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Not a novel, but true crime that I'm reading - In Cold Blood.

[Mark]

In honor of March Madness, I am reading Don't Put Me In, Coach by Mark Titus, a real bench warmer at Ohio State.

[Jim]

WILD THING by Josh Bazell - funny and intelligent with lots of good info imparted plus a down to earth but unique way of looking at the real world with a good plot

WHAT IT WAS by George Pelecanos whose gritty writng and great characters come togeher in the best tradition of real Noir right up there with Chandler

[Mark]

Have Wild Thing next in my items to listen to, love George Pelecanos. Just started Defending Jacob.

[Jan]

I finished The Chalk Girl by Carol O'Connell, the latest Mallory novel, and I recommend it highly.

[Jannene]

I finished last night. This book was great. Chloe was a character that women would want to be; strong, confident, and speaks her mind. She didn’t get scared easily or rattled which I admired. She just wasn’t one of those girls you had to coddle. The story was interesting and totally engulfed me. I was reading until 11:30 pm just to finish this book. I didn’t care for the detail in the intimacy between her and Luke. I think they could have left that out and it still would have made it a good book.

[Jennifer]

I'm reading A Murder Hatched which is a one-volume set of Murder With Peacocks and Murder With Puffins. First Donna Andrews I've read. Really enjoying it.

[Kim]

I just started Sudden Prey by John Sandford. I LOVE John Sandford's work. It's always a little disturbing, but I can't put the book down.

[Tracy]

Kim wrote: "I just started Sudden Prey by John Sandford. I LOVE John Sandford's work. It's always a little disturbing, but I can't put the book down."

I am trying to collect all the Prey books. I haven't even read any of them yet but my library had a sell and I got a lot of them. I have heard it was a very good series so I thought what the heck. I just can't find the first one anywhere.

[Mark]

Just finished Defending Jacob, would recommend it, a little twist at the end. In honor of the NCAA, I am reading Brave Dragons, an ex-NBA coach goes to China to take over a strange franchise in basketball mad China, true story.

[Mark]

Did something today, I rarely do, took a book back without finishing it, Wild Things by Josh Bazell, way too weird for me Started Locked On by Tom Clancy

[Janet]

Just finished House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, if you are a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast you will love this. Horowitz really adds to the Conan Doyle canon with this novel.

[Jennifer]

Finished Murder With Peacocks and really liked it. Very funny, in both the prose and the situational humor. On the mystery front, now reading Truly, Madly. Started it night before last and am nearly finished: can't seem to put it down!! Also started The Winter Garden Mystery , which is the second book in my challenge series read for this year.