The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

This will be the thread for your 2019 reading....

This is the link to the 2018 Currently Reading pages...

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Starting Verity today and am already halfway through. This isn’t as much of a thriller as I’m generally used to reading but I’m loving it!

Hope to finish The Corpse Steps Out before the new year, although I may not make it.

Just finished David Baldacci- Long road to mercy, currently reading Tami Hoag- The Boy.
Tami Hoag has to be one of my favourite authors and I’ve been anticipating her most recent release (the boy) for so long!! Currently only on page 164 but eager to see what she brings to the table throughout more of the novel :)

I just started "The Hot Country," the first Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel by Robert Olen Butler. It will be the first book I finish in 2019, and it is just *terrific*.

My first of Robert Olen Butler's books. I can guarantee it will NOT be my last!

Glass Houses by Louise Penny.

Hunted by Paul Finch

Just finished A Darker Domain by Val McDermid and finally starting The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.

Just finished The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Currently reading All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

I was trying to reach 130 books before midnight. Didn’t make it. For the first time in years, I’ve become sick with some respiratory thing. Damn.

I’m enjoying Where the Dark Streets Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis. What a great book to start the year with.

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My review of Verses for the Dead by Douglas Preston:

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Hope you feel better soon, Patty.

Started The Husband today, hoping to start another 2 tomorrow, normally have 3 on the go

JF:

Great start to my 2019 challenge.
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CR:

I've started 2019 with -

- The Black Dudley Murder by Margery Allingham
- Undone by Karin Slaughter
- Blunt Instrument, A by Georgette Heyer

I started reading:


His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle

Patty wrote: "I was trying to reach 130 books before midnight. Didn’t make it. For the first time in years, I’ve become sick with some respiratory thing. Damn.

I’m enjoying Where the Dark Streets Go by Dorothy..."

Sorry to hear that Patty. Hope you're feeling better. 😊🍎

The Third Victim by Phillip Margolin

A serial killer is targeting women in Portland, Oregon and a lawyer is arrested and charged with the crimes. Things get more complicated after that. Enjoyable mystery. 3 stars

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Barbara I never read that book called The Third Victim

I finished my 1st book

Brian wrote: "I just started "The Hot Country," the first Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel by Robert Olen Butler. It will be the first book I finish in 2019, and it is just *terrific*.

My first of Robert Olen But..."

I enjoyed that one, too. Hope to read more of his work.

The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator Starting the year with a little true crime. It's a good book, but not one I'd call riveting at this point (40% completed).

My first book of the year is Fear Nothing . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks, Barbara.

Dry Bones by Craig Johnson


In this 11th book in the 'Walt Longmire' series, Sheriff Longmire looks into the death of an elderly Indian while other people wrangle over a valuable fossil. The book can be read as a standalone but familiarity with the characters is a plus. Good story. 3 stars

My review:
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JF:

British police procedural/legal thriller
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CR:

Just finished

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Starting

Started BRITISH MYSTERIES - Boxed Set: 40+ Thriller Classics, Detective Novels & Crime Stories: The Mill House Murder, Dead Men's Money, The Paradise Mystery, ... Sea Fog, The Solution of a Mystery… - at 7773 pages, suspect it will take most of the year to read!

Since the weekend I have read these

Currently reading Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth

Finished reading To Sir, With Love

Finished Glass Houses by Louise Penny and Started The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz.

Shannon I read that book called Threads of Suspicion

Angie how was the book called The Lies We Told?

Angie I’m going to put that book called The Boy at the Door on my birthday list

Just finished Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill. This is the second in the Dr. Siri series. Absolutely loved it-wonderful.

Araych wrote: "Just finished Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill. This is the second in the Dr. Siri series. Absolutely loved it-wonderful."

This is such a unique series. Location, characters, time period. Everything,

Brian wrote: "I just started "The Hot Country," the first Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel by Robert Olen Butler. It will be the first book I finish in 2019, and it is just *terrific*.

My first of Robert Olen But..."

I found this one to be a super book. The series is pretty solid. I think you will like it.

Just finished Sanctuary by Ken Bruen.

Currently reading the polish detective by hania Allen (a book club read) and so far ooooooooo (this is a good sound) and (shhhhhh need to read more)

Christine wrote: "Shannon I read that book called Threads of Suspicion

Angie how was the book called The Lies We Told?"

Christine, I really enjoyed it. So many twists to the end. A great read.

Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms by Dan Bernstein

True story about a California newspaper that wanted to write about various death penalty trials. They had to go to the U.S. Supreme Court TWICE to establish the public's right to attend ALL aspects of criminal trials. Good book. 4 stars

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Angie i’m getting so excited to read that book called The Lies We Told

Christine wrote: "Angie i’m getting so excited to read that book called The Lies We Told"

Christine, hope you like it!

That Will Do Nicely by Ian Wallace Campbell

When Tom Pascoe's wife takes him to the cleaners and skedaddles, Tom hatches an elaborate forgery scheme to recoup his losses. Flat characters but interesting plot. 3 stars

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I'm about 60% through David Mamet's Chicago and I'm having very mixed feelings over it.

Angie I will like that book

Definitely not your run of the mill crime story...
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My review of The Rare Earth Exchange
3.5 rounded down to 3 stars
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A complicated plot.

I have just finished Rattle by Fiona Cummins. You can read my spoiler free review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And The Rumour by Lesley Kara You can read my spoiler free review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my blog sandysbookaday.wordpress.com https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Both are 5-star debut novels.

Next up I am reading The Lost Traveller by Sheila Connolly

Just starting Past Tense by Lee Child. Finished the Legacy by DW Buffa.

Library stop yesterday to pick up the latest Sheriff Longmire book by Craig Johnson. Sorry to say it is no improvement over the previous book. Hate it when one of my favorite series starts going downhill. I've gone from "must pre-order so I have the newest one the minute it's available" to "okay, I'll try one more time if the library has it". I still cannot praise the first half dozen Sheriff Longmire books by Craig Johnson enough ... they are wonderful and I re-read them often. The next to last book left a bad taste in my mouth ... a cliffhanger ending, which I hate ... and the current one reads like the author was trying to write for a Rambo type TV episode. I ended up just skimming the last half of the book.