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[Jen]

I've just started to read "The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who also wrote "The Shadow of the Wind", a book I thoroughly enjoyed.

[Leslie]

Penny wrote: "I finished and really enjoyed it - if you like Agatha you'll like this. A group of oldies go to a new convalescent home and a new arrival appears to know sec..."

Thanks - added it to my TBR list:)

I'm currently reading Dorothy L. Sayers' short stories - a collection new to me! Always happy to read about Lord Peter.

[Joan]

I am reading Standing in Another Man's Grave, by Ian Rankin. I hadn't realized how much I missed Rebus! I had soured on him at some point before Rankin retired him; perhaps that was because Rebus himself had become sour as the years went on and was spending more and more of his energy on drinking and fighting with those around him. In the meantime, I was happy with Rankin's new Macolm Fox series. But it's really great to be back with Rebus, and I'm pleased to report that he seems to have mellowed.

[Sara]

I am reading Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill. This is in the Simon Serrailler Mystery series. Not so much a "who" dunnit as "why". Great character development. You get to know the victims in each book as well as the regulars throughout the series.

[Penny]

Joan and Sara
I too had not read the more recent Rebus having read all the earlier ones so maybe I will give this a go and I havent read the fox series at all - oh dear no end to the 'to read' list!!
I love Susan Hill in all her shapes and sizes - I discovered her at the age of 14 in her intense phase with , , and which is now studied in schools. I think I have read every book she has written including all the Serrailler ones. How wonderful I felt when she started producing quality crime - it was like she had read my mind and was writing exactly what I wanted just for me!!!!

[Cindy]

Unholy Death in Princeton I have never read any of her stuff before...it seems quite light and breezy.

[Brenda]

Fell off the sled with Twinks & Blotto; it's just not very interseting.

[Tricia]

Thursday's List, a Dana Hargrove legal mystery just going to start it tonight! She is a new author and emailed her book to me. The discussion is on the Crime Detective Mystery Thriller Group. I am also looking forward to the March read, can't wait to start that one as I thought Full Dark House was a great February choice.

[Leslie]

Brenda wrote: "Fell off the sled with Twinks & Blotto; it's just not very interseting."

Too bad! :(

[Caroline]

I've just started the last in the Lewis trilogy by Peter May, The Chessmen.I enjoyed them very much.They're not so much about the murders as about the people en life in the Isle of Lewis.

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

I've been wanting to read the Lewis trilogy too because I love reading about different places especially Scotland.

[Julie]

I just started The Singing Sands

[Leslie]

Julie wrote: "I just started The Singing Sands"

:) Enjoy!

[Julie]

I'm reading The Anodyne Necklace

[Caroline]

Caroline wrote: "I've just started the last in the Lewis trilogy by Peter May, The Chessmen.I enjoyed them very much.They're not so much about the murders as about the people en life in the Isle of Lewis."

I can higly recommend these books. It's a lot about Lewis and descriptions of the island and the people there and the way they live and lived. I loved them all.

[HJ]

Julie wrote: "I just started The Singing Sands"

Lovely! Arpita - this one is set mostly in Scotland, too.

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

Oh thanks for the recommendation.

[Penny]

just finished The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novelwhich I really enjoyed. I think it is a book that many people are either raving about or disliking entirely. I thought it was very well done and hope he writes another!!

Mike I like Erin Kelly too so would be interested what you think of her book

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

Just finished Maisie Dobbs. Now am starting the second book in the series : Birds of a Feather. Really enjoying this series so far.

[Hannah]

Penny wrote: "just finished The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novelwhich I really enjoyed. I think it is a book that many people are either raving about or disliking entirely. I thought it was very well don..."

Really enjoyed House of Silk and hope Horowitz does do another Holmes pastiche as well.

[[deleted user]]

I just finished all the Karin Fossum (Inspector Sejer) novels and all the Peter James (DS Roy Grace) novels, too. I'm sad there are no more right now, but I think a Roy Grace one is due out in July. I took some suggestions from this board and stocked up at the library. I know what I will be doing in the snow :)

[Susan]

Arpita wrote: "Just finished Maisie Dobbs. Now am starting the second book in the series : Birds of a Feather. Really enjoying this series so far."
Oh, Arpita, I love Maisie Dobbs. It's such a great series. Her new one comes out this month and I am so excited.

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

Susan : I will definitely be reading the remainder of this series. I really enjoyed the first book. In fact if it wasn't for the fact that I'm reading the Paris Wife right now I would have read the second book immediately.

[Leslie]

I have a bunch of big classics going right now but am somewhat impatient to get to my mysteries. I have The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King, our BOTM A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh, Swan Song by Edmund Crispin (due to Arpita & Jean Luke), and Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes all sitting on my living room table!

[Susan]

Arpita wrote: "Susan : I will definitely be reading the remainder of this series. I really enjoyed the first book. In fact if it wasn't for the fact that I'm reading the Paris Wife right now I would have read the..."

You have such great taste, Arpita. I really liked "Paris Wife." My in person book club read it with Hemingway's "Moveable Feast." It was great to contrast the two books.
Now my new favorite favorite favorite book is Kate Atkinson's new one "Life after Life." It's fantastic.

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

Thanks Susan. Don't know about the great taste part- my secret vice is reading kids literature- Jennings, Bobbsey twins, Enid Blyton etc. :-)
Did you recently recommend Deborah Crombie? I noticed a share in death is on sale for kindle.

[Susan]

Arpita wrote: "Thanks Susan. Don't know about the great taste part- my secret vice is reading kids literature- Jennings, Bobbsey twins, Enid Blyton etc. :-)
Did you recently recommend Deborah Crombie? I noticed a..."
Yes, I did. I've read the first two. Share in Death is the first one. I like reading them in order. Joan doesn't think you need to but I like watching the relationships develop.

[Joan]

@Susan+Arpita: Just to be clear, I think it's fine to read the Crombie novels in chronological order; it's just not the only fun way to do it -- I read them more or less in random order, and I love them. I thought it was a better idea for us to consider No Mark Upon Her for the April BOTM than A Share in Death, because Crombie has improved significantly with practice.

Coincidentally, I just got The Sound of Broken Glass, the most recent Crombie, from my local library today. Can't wait to start it tonight!

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

Thanks Joan and Susan. I think I will go ahead and buy the first book which is on sale. I personally like to read a series in chronological order but will keep in mind that the books get better.

[Antigone]

I would like to recommend the Kate Shackleton Mysteries by Frances Brody, the latest: A Woman Unknown has recently been published in paperback. These books are set in 1920s Yorkshire which makes a change from so many of the books as most are set no further north than Norfolk, I mean books written and set in the 1920s. Characters have depth and lives beyond the immediate events. Always a bonus. The historical setting is authentic but not forced. Anyway give them a go!
Tiggy

[Joan]

Would like to say that I also like reading kid mysteries
Love the Bobby's but also Tricia belden
Who is American

[Cindy]

Starting on The Child's Child! I love Ruth Rendell, but I have never gotten to any Barbara Vine...so I am very excited.

[Arpita (BagfullofBooks)]

Joan , speaking of children's mysteries my all time favorite collection has to be Enid Blyton's Five Find Outers and dog mysteries. I remember the mystery of the secret room having an example of a classic locked room mystery. I was so thrilled upon reading it. I also read the Three Investigator's mysteries and some of the Nancy Drews.Funny how what you read as a child influences your adult tastes.

[Leslie]

Joan wrote: "Would like to say that I also like reading kid mysteries
Love the Bobby's but also Tricia belden
Who is American"

I read Trixie Belden but preferred Nancy Drew.

[Susan]

Cindy wrote: "Starting on The Child's Child! I love Ruth Rendell, but I have never gotten to any Barbara Vine...so I am very excited."

I find Barbara Vine books very different from Ruth Rendell. I like them both. Let me know how the Child's Child is. I have it on my TBR list.

[Cindy]

Susan wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Starting on The Child's Child! I love Ruth Rendell, but I have never gotten to any Barbara Vine...so I am very excited."

I find Barbara Vine books very different from Ruth Rendell. I..."

Sadly, I started the Child's Child and I got about 20 pages in, and I had to stop. It just was not clicking for me. But that sometimes happens with me. Honestly, I don't think that it's a reflection of the book, I'm just not quite ready for it. But I did want to read some Barbara Vine, but I think that I am going to start with A Dark-Adapted Eye instead. Maybe sometime this week.

[Brenda]

I enjoyed THE CHILD'S CHILD, but I can see why others have trouble. Rendell is dealing with not one but two difficult subjects.

[Leslie]

I just finished In the Blood by Steve Robinson. Very enjoyable first book in a series...

[Leslie]

I'm reading The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King in a doomed-to-fail attempt to finish it before it is due back at the library (today!). Oh well, I guess I will renew my loan...

A Man Lay Dead is next...

[Cindy]

Started today! Think I'm gonna like it!!

[Penny]

I never really thought of Enid Blyton as a mystery writer but I guess she was!!! Maybe that's where some of us got our taste for these stories.

I most enjoyed the 'adventure' series - the Valley of Adventure, the Island of Adventure (which I am currently reading out loud to a friend's children) and all the others in this series.
I have just read The Baker Street Mysteries - The Rose of Africa - which again is a children's book but follows the Irregulars in the Doyle books lead of course by Sam Wiggins. I read these sort of things aloud to my kids and/or to my friend's children and they are just the thing to grab their interest.

[Lorraine]

Those Enid Blyton "mysteries" were my favourite books as a child. I managed to find them all in 2nd hand bookstores, and have two in hard cover (which is really rare). They're still fun to read - I went through the whole series about a year ago.

I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones.

[Luffy Sempai]

Leslie wrote: "I'm reading The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King in a doomed-to-fail attempt to finish it before it is due back at the library (today!). Oh well, I guess I will renew my loan..."

I read that book, gave it 1star but I'm interested in reading the rest of the series.

[Luffy Sempai]

Lorraine wrote: "Those Enid Blyton "mysteries" were my favourite books as a child. I managed to find them all in 2nd hand bookstores, and have two in hard cover (which is really rare). They're still fun to read -..."

I've read the island of adventure among others. If there weren't so many books to discover, I'd read Enid Blyton, even if at my age, 33y, it would be weird to do so. My favorite Enid Blyton mysteries were those that involved the 5 Find Outers and dog. The mystery of the burnt cottage is a classic. The vanished prince, the spiteful letters etc, all have magical titles and stories.

[Sonali]

Yes, I think of them as the Fatty or Clear orf series.:-) Loved them. Re-read them when my son was growing up & reading them too.

[Luffy Sempai]

Sonali wrote: "Yes, I think of them as the Fatty or Clear orf series.:-) Loved them. Re-read them when my son was growing up & reading them too."

When I was toddlerish I misread the cursive "Enid Blyton" on a cover, and for a few days I thought that Enid had a brother, "Grid" Blyton, who also wrote kids' books.

[Penny]

Luffy wrote: "Sonali wrote: "Yes, I think of them as the Fatty or Clear orf series.:-) Loved them. Re-read them when my son was growing up & reading them too."

When I was toddlerish I misread the cursive "Enid ..."

what did you make of the Beekeeper's Apprentice? I have read a few of these.

[Brenda]

I liked BEEKEEPER and the next 2 or 3, but gradually the series has becoming less and less good.

[Leslie]

Lorraine wrote: "Those Enid Blyton "mysteries" were my favourite books as a child. I managed to find them all in 2nd hand bookstores, and have two in hard cover (which is really rare). They're still fun to read...

I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones."

I recently finished that - I thought it was OK but not worthy of all raves I had heard.

[Luffy Sempai]

Penny wrote: "what did you make of the Beekeeper's Apprentice? I have read a few of these."


I thought it was a harmless adventure book, but a terrible Holmes story.