The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Nominations are now open for the August/September Group Read.

General rules for Group Reads. Please read before you create your post.

One nomination per person from any mystery genre. Authors, please no self-nominations.

Nominations will be open until Saturday, August 7, with voting until August 14th.

For your post, use Title, Author and Link (use the "add book/author" link at top of comment box) please.

The person who nominated the winning book will be the leader of the discussion. The discussion leader's job does not have to be elaborate. A few comments or questions to keep the discussion moving along will be fine or it can be more if you like.

Since we are a rather international group please check Amazon or some other site to make sure the book is readily available. Is it available in paperback? Used? Your local library? The last thing we want is to nominate a great book that no one can get!

Finally, a word about series - the joy or bane of a mystery reader’s life! Please consider whether the book you are nominating would be best read by someone who has read all the previous books in the series or can be enjoyed by someone new to the series too.

Killing Floor by Lee Child

I've heard excellent things about this series. I haven't read it yet, I've been wanting to read it with a group.

The Dogs Of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald.

I'm going to nominate something a little different this month:

Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl.

Not really mysteries, but they are thrilling and twisty

Hayes wrote: "I'm going to nominate something a little different this month:

Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl.

Not really mysteries, but they are thrilling and twisty"

Just got it in the mail!

Susanna wrote: "Just got it in the mail! "

Snap!!

Pattee: Good choice!

For purely selfish reasons (it's on hold at my library & I really like the title)
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter

Vince wrote: "For purely selfish reasons (it's on hold at my library & I really like the title)
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter"

I don't think that's selfish. That's practical.

K.B. wrote: "Vince wrote: "For purely selfish reasons (it's on hold at my library & I really like the title)
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter"

I don't think that's selfish. That's pr..."

Yeah, but I like to see my name in print! :-)

Well then you must love anything by Vince Flynn.

Pattee wrote: "Oldie but goodie!
Gaudy Night (1935) Dorothy Sayers

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/d..."

I liked Gaudy Night.

Something to toss around from a conversation on a different thread. Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness A Novel

In an effort to expand the geographic coverage, I'm going to nominate Blood Men: A Thriller by Paul Cleave. Cleave's debut was the #1 bestselling crime/thriller title on Amazon Germany in 2007, and he is slowly starting to be noticed by the bigger English-speaking markets.

Blood Men: A Thriller was released in Australia and New Zealand in March, but has also been picked up by a big US publisher and was recently released there too, and is available via Amazon (paperback and Kindle etc).

Mark Billingham has called Cleave's writing "relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted, and shot through with a vein of humor that's as dark as hell"

And he's right. He could become NZ's Ian Rankin or Henning Mankell, ie the author that starts readers looking more closely at crime fiction from his country...

I suggest Raven Black Winner of Britain's coveted 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. It is the first book of the Shetland Island series

I would like to nominate In the Woods by Tana French. I have read her second book, The Likeness, and LOVED it! I have heard really great things about this book.

I would like to nominate L.A. Confidential byJames Ellroy. I'm sure many of you have already read this. This one somehow has slipped through the cracks for me.