Kindle British & Irish Mystery Book Club discussion

Nominations will close on Sunday 18th May 2025 at midnight GMT. If voting is then required a poll on the nominated books will run after nominations close until and including Sunday 27th May 2025 at midnight GMT.

Rules:
1) All nominations in this thread please
2) Please when nominating a book make sure even if it is a book in a series that it can be read as a standalone and not all the series required first.
3) No books we have read in the last 12 months and our list of books read as group nominations can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
4) Where possible try to do the same with authors and not one we have read in the last 12 months.
5) No self nominations from authors please.
6) It must qualify as a British Mystery as we are a British Mystery Book Club. If you want to know more on what qualifies then please read the thread "What Is A British Mystery?" where we had a discussion on this and decided. It is at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
7) If you nominate and the book becomes a group read it would be good if you could be the discussion leader on it for that month.
8) Any problems or queries then message me

My nomination is


The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre

"You know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling local police. A razor-sharp mind in a twinset and tweed.

You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective. Always in trouble with his captain, always losing partners, but always battling for the truth, whatever it takes.

Against all the odds, against the usual story, their worlds are about to collide. It starts with a dead writer and a mysterious wedding invitation. It will end with a rabbit hole that goes so deep, Johnny and Penny might come to question not just whodunnit, but whether they want to know the answer."

***Winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year***

Link to Book on Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3GX2hu7

Right we have a slight problem with only 1 nomination for the group read.
Can we please have another nomination today or I will just have to select a random book.

Must say I'm a little disappointed in lack of nominations this month.

I have as the second read picked an author that isn't on our groups read bookshelf and i s also the first of a series of books.



White Bones by Graham Masterton
"Eleven bodies. One grave.

On a wet, windswept morning, a field on a desolate farm gives up the dismembered bones of eleven women. They have been buried there since 1915, their skeletons bearing the marks of a meticulous butcher.

Then a young woman goes missing. When her remains are found soon after, police are horrified to discover the bones were carefully stripped before being arranged in an arcane pattern.

With the crimes of the past echoing in the present, DS Katie Maguire must solve a decades-old murder steeped in ancient legend before this terrifying killer strikes again…"

I nominate The Dark Hours

OK right in view of that and rather than me doing two we will switch the second book to Bill's The Dark Hours

Thanks very much. I think we'll enjoy it.