Susan_MG’s Comments (group member since Nov 13, 2023)

Susan_MG’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

Wrexford and Sloane have caught my attention. I’m reading the second book, Murder at Half Moon Gate and am enjoying this book even more than book one!

Susan in NC (I wish I could post links on this platform 😩).
I hope so because his decisions in book 2 made me wonder how he remains unscathed.

Sandy, I hope to get to the King Henry Viii series. In the Crispin books the author doesn’t glamorize or overly develop the characters but she focuses on the plot and the local, At least in the early books 1 and 2. I do hope Crispen’s decisions improve as his story goes on.

Susan in NC, I agree that the author has portrayed Crispin to be a bit hapless. I am in book three which has a different problem for me but it’s early pages so I will continue. On the positives, I like the way Jeri Westerson weaves the story and builds suspense. The time period is also interesting to me. All this said, I do hope Crispin pulls himself together and has a significant change of fortune.

I have been hopping between The Seeker Series and Jeri Westersons Crispin Guest novels. Both are incredibly entertaining.

Hate inc, Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another, Matt Tibbi

Sandy and Susan in NC…
My knowledge of the Cromwell Protectorate history is abysmal. I am reading the fiction and jogging over to Wikipedia and the web to clarify references in the story. It is cumbersome but one of the things I love about historical fiction is what I learn while reading the stories.

The Seeker series (book 1-5) are on Amazon Kindle US for $2.99 the series. I’m halfway in The Seeker (book 1). Very intriguing so far.

Just reread the Lily Adler mystery books 1-4 in anticipation of new release, book 5 tomorrow. On Kindle and Audible US
Author Katharine Schellman provides intrigue and entertainment.

Listening to Martin Edwards Gallows Court. It’s a long listen but the plot is interesting and a bit more detailed and complicated than other mysteries of that era that i have read.

I’ve just started this fun mystery by a new to me author. The author hasn’t wasted time with elaborate character details but she certainly included humor for the reader. I loved her description , thought by the victim’s work associate, of how the deceased would view an economics class filling the schedule of her classes. I couldn’t agree more of the snide comment about economics as a subject. I chuckled because my undergraduate degree, in economics, is a bachelor of science.
The chemistry teacher wouldn’t have liked to know that, ha ha.

I lived on the Kensington, CA hillside when that fire whipped through the Berkeley hills. I hope you were not impacted. Thank you for mentioning this book so I may read it.

Will continue The Hollow Msn and start the Big Four, Agatha Christie.

This was a great introduction to Chief inspector Macdonald. I will definitely read more of his series. I hope to read the original UK editions.

I’m just beginning Fete Worse than Death.

This is my first book by this author and I enjoyed the story.

I completed this book a bit early and now I can just remember an outline of the characters and the story. The gaps in Tommy’s timeline threw me off a bit but I thought the story was well constructed and even though he was on the villain’s side for a while things improved later in the story.

I know I read some of this series quite a few years ago. I don’t remember them all but I know I would remember a long trip to Syria. The story was ok but certainly not riveting. I didn’t find the theater comedy humorous. My late husband would say it’s because I don’t have a sense of humor…

I have, but have not read yet, book 3 of the series by Boris Akunin. I must have gotten sidetracked or not able to get the first as I like to read a series in order.

I have just finished The Last Act in Palmyra, book 6 of the Marcus Falco series. I may choose another to compare as book 6 wasn’t a favorite. I know I read some of this series years ago and my vague remembrance is that I liked them.
I am currently reading Seishi Yokomizo’s Kosuke Kindaichi series set just after WWII.
I have read the HONJIN Murders and now reading Death on Gokumon Island.