Kindle British Mystery Book Club discussion

I want to read The Impossible Dead. Currently I am reading Strangers on a Train.

I just started Natural Causes.

I am reading

I wanted to continue the Kerry Greenwood Corrine Chapman series but I need to get the next books.

currently reading Thrilled to Death by Jennifer Apodaca

Currently reading Game Changer by John Childress. Early on it dragged a little, but a third of the way through and the pace has really quickened. Enjoying it so far.

Currently rereading - power and internet out from Hurricane Sandy - library closed - so going back through favorites - I love Simon Brett's Fethering series

Currently reading I love Simon Brett's books!

David wrote: "

Book link added for Diana's current read for anybody interested."

Thanks David - technology and I are not friends. Could you tell me how to add book link please.

David wrote: "I thought I would read one of the freebies I picked up on Kindle Books. So I have started Dark Horse by J R Rain


Link to get it free on Uk Kindle is:-
http://www.ama..."

Hi David, I've started reading this. Distinctive style and a few typos/ formatting issues but enjoying it so far.

Currently reading

Enjoying Kerry Greenwood's series

Currently reading

This is one of the cozy corner books of the month.

Diana wrote: "David wrote: "I thought I would read one of the freebies I picked up on Kindle Books. So I have started Dark Horse by J R Rain


Link to get it free on Uk Kindle is:-
..."

Thanks for that. Loved the book. J R Rain has a new reader!

Currently reading

Only recently discovered this series by Kerry Greenwood and love it!

Currently reading Only read a few chapters but enjoying so far.

Just finished . I loved it! Well done mystery, interesting, realistic characters, and well written. Background information on code breaking history and botany was well researched and really added to the interest. I will definitely read more by this author.

I'm reading right now. It's a zombie book and it was free so I felt compelled to read it.

David wrote: "Just started
James Patterson's, First To Die.

Quite funny this is part of a series and my wife got herself number ten before realising its a series. Now we have to get..."


I think I got to the 9th or 10th book in that series before I abandoned ship. For some reason for me at least the books seemed to become repetative after a while I felt like this too with his Alex Cross series. For me was my favorite in that series. James Patterson's chaptering style can make the book seem choppy. Though they are nice reads with thrill.

I loved Nightingale Vale. It had the sense of an old fashioned ghost story. There were I admit some formatting issues but a great story teller. Stayed up late to finish it.

David wrote: "I have moved on to the next Lee Child Jack Reacher book and have started
"

Interested to know what you think. I've enjoyed other books by Lee Child.

From the Corner of his Eye by Dean Koontz

One of my favorite authors and rarely am I disappointed. About 1/4 way through and loving it.

Finished- Read from February 03 to 18, 2013

Wow, this book kept me interested for some 750+ pages! Many absorbing main characters and even the secondary characters interesting and real. Most of the book involves a terribly arrogant, paranoid serial rapist/murderer. His delusions and more than that-his pure evil drive him towards what I think he sees as his survival. That survival, in his mind involves the death of someone named Bartholomew, who turns out to be a child. Dean Koontz must have really thought that this was the ultimate evil character (I Agree) --I say that because it seems everyone else in the book is ultimate good--It was going to take a lot of goodness to bring this guy down! This book has many interesting themes and I enjoyed them all. He ends with bringing things together using Quantum physics, molecular biology, quantum mechanics, Spirituality and a good dose of the Bible. The name Bartholomew is no coincidence in the story. Loved this book.

'The Coronation' by Boris Akunin after finishing 'She, lover of death' by the same author

i've downoaded that too so would like to hear your thoughts before reading

The Hypnotist. By Kepler

I am just finishing the 3rd book in the Sydney Rye series by Emily Kimelman. They have all been a fun read and I got all 3 from Amazon when they were on Bookbub for free! Free is ALWAYS good!

currently reading Terror By Night by Terry Caffey.

Currently reading Beat the Reaper. The main character is Dr. Pietre Brnwa (Peter Brown) and they also sort of indicate he is the author. I hope that is a publicity stunt! At any rae, it is a bizarre combination of hospital internship and the story of a mob hitman. It is well written and as nurse, I find the hospital scenes hilarious! i.e. the interns way of saying goodbye is to say go home and get some sleep! Even when you kmow they can't or won't be going anywhere.

Just read Absolutely amazing thought provoking read...Not a quick read best to be read in pieces to allow you time to digest the ideas presented.

Currently reading by Gillian White - an author new to me. I'm not very far into it yet, but it's looking good so far.

The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling

Wanted to see if she can write something other than Harry Potter.

After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
by Mark Steyn

Usually read 2 books at same time-Mark Steyn is Canadian who now lives in Northeast US-His previous books explain why.

A Casual Vacancy by JK Rowlings

was interested in whether this author could write more than Harry Potter. Read over 70% the book and am just quite bored with it. Something should be happening by now! Instead Rowling is still introducing new characters. I have a feeling that the book will get better but I have thought that from page 1 so I am putting it on my "To finish later" shelf. BTW A Casual Vacancy is when someone on a town council dies and leaves a vacancy. If you like books about small towns and a tiny bit of politics with many, many pretty average characters -then this may be a good one for you.
To be fair, I also became bored with the Harry Potter stories after second or maybe 3rd book so perhaps this author is just not for me.

I grew really bored with the dysfunctional citizens in The Casual Vacancy, too. I put it on a shelf called Drivel. I am a real Harry Potter fan, though. I have read them all more than once. Maybe I am just a kid at heart.

Currently reading The Minotaur by Barbara Vine.

Kathy wrote: "I am a real Harry Potter fan, though. I have read them all more than once."

Me too, Kathy! I haven't plucked up the courage to try The Casual vacancy yet - so many people have found it disappointing.

Perhaps it because she is such a good writer that when she writes about this town of unhappy people, you really feel it. I had to put it down in the early stages.

It must be very hard to find something new after such a huge success as Harry Potter. Whatever she did was almost bound to be a disappointment. Maybe by her next book we'll be comparing to The Casual Vacancy rather than HP and that might be easier for her. I kind of hopes she goes back to children's or YA fiction, though not necessarily back to the world of wizards.

I think she has the opportunity to display her talents in different genres. This is really different from YA fantasy but that's not to say its not very well written. It was. But depressing. I didn't care who would fill that Vacancy. The mysteries that we read always work toward problem resolution and reach a conclusion, usually satisfactory. The story pulls you along. Not so, in Rowling's latest IMO.

Kathy wrote: "I grew really bored with the dysfunctional citizens in The Casual Vacancy, too. I put it on a shelf called Drivel. I am a real Harry Potter fan, though. I have read them all more than once. Maybe ..."

I love the idea of a "drivel" shelf! HA

I saw it somewhere. It's not original to me.

Kathy wrote: "I grew really bored with the dysfunctional citizens in The Casual Vacancy, too. I put it on a shelf called Drivel. I am a real Harry Potter fan, though. I have read them all more than once. Maybe ..."

I also am greta fan of the Potter books and only made it through 50 pages of this one--snore!!! I couldn't find anyone I liked enough to care about.

I'm struggling with The Dead Songbird. I think I'll leave it and go for Sayers.

I tried reading Love Poems for Cannibals, but it was to raunchey for me. My maintenance man did not like it either.

Sounds like an interesting read.

Reading The Age of Innocence. So far quite enjoying it

im reading The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer, its something i put on my list a long time ago and im finally getting to it. only one chapter in, we'll see i am not feeling the strong draw to keep reading but i will keep going. also started Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers today. So far so good but reading the conversations are a bit of an adjustment since they are in dialect.

Yesterday, those of us watching the posting and responding to questions by Jacqueline Winespear experienced a real treat. She wrote the Masie Dobbs series. As a result I am going to read some of the WWI era history books that she mentioned. But currently I am working on Legacy of the Dead by Charles Todd. I enjoy Ian Rutledge.

The Midnight Man by Paul Doherty.

It's one of his Canterbury Tales series of mediaeval mysteries.

David wrote: "After finishing the swimmer I've gone for something nice and easy to read that I know will be good. I've moved on to the next Jack Reacher book. I'm reading The Enemy by Lee Child."

My favorite Jack Reacher Book is running Blind. I'd like to read the others from the beginning.

Reading now along with

One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz
Almost seems like several different stories-totally separate (for now)...not sure how Koontz will pull this together. Enjoying so far.