Currently Reading

[YB]

It seems an absolute age since I posted on this section si quite a few to report on.

Celina Grace - Scimitar. I have previously read a few of these featuring a detective called Kate Redman. Good
Simon McCleave - The Harlech Beach Killings. New author to me, OK
Rebecca Bradley - Blood Stained. Another new to me author. Good
Val McDermid - Christmas is Murder. A short story. Good
Quintin Jardine - The Cage. Latest in the Bob Skinner series. Very good as usual
Val McDermid - Past Lying. Very Good
Peter James - Stop Them Dead. The latest in the Roy Grace series, set in Brighton on England's south coast. One of my favourite series, excellent as always
Tim Sullivan - Thev Dentist. Good
Richard Osman - the Last Devil To Die. Richard is a UK TV quiz presenter, This is the latest in the Thursday Murder Club Series. Good and humerous in parts
Quentin Black - Lessons in Blood. The main character is a bit Reacher - ish. He gets into a skirmish with four bad guys and beats them easily. If there are eight bad guys his girlfriend sorts them out
Quentin Jardine - Autographs in the Rain. An old Bob Skinner book that I must have missed first time around
Duane Lindsey - The Grifter's Daughter. A bit differnent but good
Stuart Field - A Friend of the Famil Not a bad story but two complaints. One is that this book is part one, wasn't aware until I had finished it. Second, I don't recall ever reading a book with so many mistakes in it. Spellings, wrong tense, wrong meanings. Whoever releases Kindle books don't seem to check them as well.

[YB]

Stella Cameron - Folly - OK

Next up was a series of five books by Mike Faricy. I first found this author a few years ago, his character Dev Haskell is a Private Detective. There are a lot in the series and are very good. Then around a couple of years ago he created a new character called Jack Dillon. Jack is a US policeman who is sent to Dublin, Ireland, to arrest a US citizen and return him to USA for trial. Things go wrong and the criminal is killed. I have forgotten the reason why but Jack remains in Dublin and is attached to the local police. This develops into a further four books and then a month ago I was offered five new ones in the series - FREE!
So I've been reading those for a few weeks and find them excellent. Good murder mysteries with a sprinkling of humour.

I would recommend Mike Faricy to you all, either series are extremely good.

[4AMNTN]

WOW! So many books! My that's great! Thx for sharing - I'll need to check back more often - I haven't read in a long time. Last book was a really good one "Into the Yellowstone". - anyone here know of that

[Dan M.]

WOW! So many books! My that's great! Thx for sharing - I'll need to check back more often - I haven't read in a long time. Last book was a really good one "Into the Yellowstone". - anyone here know of that

That dude needs to write a sequel.

[Gismo]

That dude needs to write a sequel.

Been waiting for ages for it too

[YB]

Aline Templeton - Last Act of All. Couldn't get into it, abandoned after about 80 pages
Pauline Rowson - Portsmouth Murders. Good without being outstanding
Nick Roberts - Find the Girl. Good
Belinda P Sheehan - A Wicked Mercy. I did finish it but came clodse to abandoning it a couple of times
Oliver Davies - Unusual Remains. I read a few of his a couple of years ago and liked them but this one was hard going
Carolyn Arnold - Taken Girls. Good sold stories from the author, read lots previously
The above are all FREE on Kindle

Alex Gray - Out of Darkness. A Bill Lorimer police procedural, usually set in Glasgow but this one was mainly in Zimbabwe

My two latest ones wouldn't be of interest to anyone on here as they cover music in my town years ago.
They are called Small Time Saturday Night, volumes one and two. They cover local venues and local singers/bands. They also talk about World Stars who came here, including Roy Orbison and Gene Vincent among others. Eddie Cochran was booked to appear (along with Gene Vincent) but he had sadly been killed in a car accdent the week before.

The books cover the period 1957-1970. For the first five years I wasn't old enough to be going into town to concerts but 1962 onwards I remember very well. Th
The author is called Trevor Simpson and among other things he played football for the local team and went on to be a top level referee

[YB]

Frieda McFadden - The Inmate. Never read anything by this lady previously but I thought it very good. Anyone else read her?
Frieda McFadden - Never Lie. I liked the above author so much I got another and wasn't disappointed. I have a further one on my TBR pile
Peter James - They Thought I Was Dead. If you are familiar with the Roy Grace series (which I think is better than brilliant!) you'll know that underlying in every book is references to his missing wife. This book tells her story
Charlie Gallagher - He Is Watching You. New author to me, good
Graham Hurley - Touching Distance. A spin off from his Faraday and Winter series. Good but not as good as F&R
Mark Billingham - The Wrong Hands. I have read a lot by him. Many feature London detective Tom Thorne, this is a standalone but good
Andy McNab - Recoil. I've read a few by this man, they are good without being brilliant. i don't go looking for them, they find me
Lynda La Plante - Whole Life Sentence. Main character is lady policeman Jane Tennyson. The series started maybe 30 years ago when Jane was a fairly senior Police Officer. Then about 2010 she started with prequels from when Jane first joined the Police. These have now caught up with the original series and Lynda has announced that there will be no more, which is disappointing

[4AMNTN]

YB! That's a great list! My! I looked for the first time in months if not a year or more - a new Karin Slaughter's Will Trent : Why We Lied book is out - I'll need to buy that. Also my Janet Ivanovich's Stephanie Plum series should be coming out with one soon. : Oops (Dirty Thirty) AND ... Now or Never
Oh & of course isn't October when out REACHER books usually are released? I miss reading - In Too Deep ... tho I didn't read The Secret.

[YB]

I did read a couple of Karin Slaughter's a few years ago, can't remember if they were Will Trent or not.

Never read any Janet Ivanovich

[Gismo]

I've hardly been reading anything, still stuck on my 1 to 9 books in one go Zombie thing

[Dan M.]

I read Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, the first of 8 books that inspired the show. It was good, not great. It's a first person POV and I didn't care for the "voice" too much. Good story though. Very dark character.

[4AMNTN]

The Evanovich series is funny. Unlucky OR lucky newly starting out bounty hunter (Stephanie Plum) with NO skills. A cop (Joe Morelli) and an Ex Ranger(Carlos Manoso), then there's her family AND the townspeople -- it's a hoot. Somewhere in all that is a little romance A LOT of tension and FTA's to capture. (failure to appear)

[lucyy300]

I did read a couple of Karin Slaughter's a few years ago, can't remember if they were Will Trent or not. SharpEdge

Never read any Janet Ivanovich

thats great

[Gismo]

Well, finally finished my epic Zombie book which went weird at the end, won't spoil it for others in case they read it, but, not the ending i expected.
Anyway, onto the 19th book from James Patterson for the murder club series

[4AMNTN]

OH HA! I don;t "do" Zombie stuff - - Hey, glad you've stuck with the series on The Women's Murder Club. The TV series was really good as well. I think I got into the 20's then .....