The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Poll Open! July/August Group Read

Voting through Monday, July 9th. at http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/19...

This month we will have just one open category but the top 2 books in the voting will be the two featured books.

General rules for Group Reads

1) If your nomination wins - you will be the discussion moderator.
2) One (1) nomination only per person. Authors: no self-nominations, please.
3) Please do not repeat an author we have read in the last year. Check the bookshelves to see the authors we've read in the past year. http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh...
4) For your nomination please include Title, Author and Link (use the "add book/author" link at top of comment box).

Since we are an international group, please check 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.

I'll start things off by nominating The Killings At Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham.

Donna......are you sure that the address for checking on the authors previously read is correct? It gave me an error message "address unknown". Or maybe it is just my temperamental computer.

Hi Jill. I'm getting an error message too. I'll look into it.

Thanks.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh...

This links seems to work now.*Fingers crossed*

I think I fixed it in the first post too!

It works.....thanks.

Now I will nominate a book from the Peculiar Crimes Unit series that is zany, lots of fun and has great characters.

by Christopher Fowler

Hi, Donna, I'll nominate Hunter: A Thriller by Robert Bidinotto.

I have to admit that due to being so hard at work on my latest book I have not read a book in the last six months. Yeah, I know but it's true. I intend to start the enjoyment of reading again in a few weeks and when we sail for Hawaii in December. I do get time to follow you, Donna and the news from Goodreads.

A.G.Hayes.
Author of;
'Who's Killing All The Lawyers' &' The Judas List.'












Who's Killing All The Lawyers & The Judas List.

I'll nominate The Raphael Affair, the first of Iain Pears' Art History Mysteries that I've been meaning to read for some time.

Collecting Cooper: A Thriller by Paul Cleave.

Time for the group to read some New Zealand crime fiction. This book is available in the US, and in the past few months Cleave has won crime/thriller awards in New Zealand and France, and had his debut The Cleaner, which was the #1 crime/thriller title on Amazon Germany in 2007, picked up for a film adaptation (that book will now be released in the US in December).

The Gingerbread HouseCarin Gerhardsen

Very promising author, and this is the first in a series so several more novels to come for those who enjoy this book!

Hi,

I'd like to nominate Suzie Ivy's Bad Luck Cadet and Bad Luck Officer, also available together as a printed book Bad Luck Cadet & Bad Luck Officer.

It's my top read of 2012, and best of all, it's an inspirational real life story.

"At the age of twenty-five you have your whole life in front of you. When you’re forty-four years old, forty pounds overweight, and laying in bed with a broken hip, what do you have? Depression, red wine and no future, or so Suzie Ivy thought.

An advertisement on a drugstore bulletin board changed Suzie’s thinking and lands her in the police academy. Was she out of her mind? No, and she decided to live up to the challenge. The biggest question; is the Police Academy ready for Suzie Ivy?"

I'll nominate Small Town Secrets by Billie A Williams

I'd like to nominate "The Silver Pigs" by Lindsey Davis. This is the first book in the Marcus Didius Falco series, and it's a winner of a series. Funny, warm and lots of mystery set in Ancient Rome in the first century AD, although this book is centred in Saxon England. This has been my favourite series for some time now.

I would like to recommend In The Woods by Tana French. I have had this on my kindle, and would love a reason to put it to the top of my TBR list!

I'll nominate Istanbul Passage: A Novel by Joseph Kanon. It came out recently to excellent reviews all around.

Autumn wrote: "I would like to recommend In The Woods by Tana French. I have had this on my kindle, and would love a reason to put it to the top of my TBR list!"

Hi Autumn, We read In the Woods as the May 2011 group read. Would you like to nominate another book?

Ah, darn. I will have to think about that one. Sorry!

I'd like to nominate The Last Plea Bargain by Randy Singer. It's got amazing reviews and I've read several of Randy's legal thrillers and greatly enjoyed them

I nominate The 500: A Novel by Matthew Quirk.

N.P. wrote: "Hi,

I'd like to nominate Suzie Ivy's Bad Luck Cadet and Bad Luck Officer, also available together as a printed book Bad Luck Cadet & Bad Luck Officer.

It's my top read of 2012, and best of all, i..."

I'll second your nomination and put them at the to of my TBR list!

I will nominate Broken Preyby John Sandford.

The Yard by Alex Grecian

I nominate Disappeared by Gary Alexander. A fast-paced crime story, told from multiple points of view and including numerous plot twists, quirky characters, a romance, and some dark humor.Gary AlexanderDISAPPEARED

Btw, Bad Luck Cadet is free today on Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005U88Z2M

Warning: highly addictive :)

Happy reading!
/NP

I would like to recommend " From Russia with Love " by Ian Fleming :-)

I would like to nominate RESURRECTED: An Adam Wolf Thriller by Steve Trotter http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
This book rips right along with a great main character (who's over 60!) who is still in the fight. It's funny and there's a CAT in it, too. Hard to resist this one!

David Baldaci's The Innocent.

I'll try nominating To Kill a Mockingbird again.

Absolute Zero Cool
Declan Burke's 'Absolute Zero Cool'
Look at who say it is brilliant:

'A genuinely original take on noir, inventive and funny...a cross between Flann O'Brien and Raymond Chandler.' --John Banville, author of The Sea

Absolute Zero Cool is unlike anything else you'll read this year...laugh-out-loud funny...this is writing at its dazzling, cleverest zenith. Think John Fowles, via Paul Auster and Rolling Stone...A feat of extraordinary alchemy.' --Ken Bruen, Author of American Skin

Among all the recent crop of Irish crime novelists, it seems to me that Declan Burke is ideally poised to make the transition to a larger international stage.' --John Connolly

I recently read and greatly enjoyed Tiger Paw. It's a wonderful thriller with plenty of twists and turns and a red herring or two. A great debut from Charles A. Cornell.

I would like to nominate 'The Private Patient' by PD James

Chop Suey by Ty Hutchinson would be awesome.

I would add Rimaru - Butcher of Bucharest.
I know true crime stories are not everybody's cup of tea, but this story of a serial killer from 1970-71 communist Romania is quite surprising, written in a clear, factual and non-sensationalist way.

How about The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell . It is a genealogist mystery. I haven't read it myself, but it comes highly recommended.

I'd like to nominate James Rollins Altar of Eden. I'm reading it now and it's really got me hooked.

My vote will go to the book nominated by Gerard: Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke.

What about Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn? Has that been read already?

Code of Thieves A terrific read!

Hi,

I too would like to nominate Absolute Zero Cool

This book is a brilliant and compelling must-read, which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.

John wrote: "My vote will go to the book nominated by Gerard: Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke."

I really want to read Absolute Zero Cool too!

I am looking forward to reading Absolute Zero Cool. It sounds very engaging. (and I am always happy for a new read) But just on the off chance others might be interested, I am pasting below the description of The Blood Detective from Macmillan:

When the naked, mutilated body of a man is found in a Notting Hill graveyard and the police investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his colleague Detective Superintendent Heather Jenkins yields few results, a closer look at the corpse reveals that what looked at first glance like superficial knife wounds on the victim’s chest is actually a string of carved letters and numbers, an index number referring to a file in city archives containing birth and death certificates and marriage licenses. Family historian Nigel Barnes is put on the case. As one after another victim is found in various locations all over London, each with a different mutilation but the same index number carved into their skin, Barnes and the police work frantically to figure out how the corresponding files are connected. With no clues to be found in the present, Barnes must now search the archives of the past to solve the mystery behind a string of 100-year-old murders. Only then will it be possible to stop the present series of gruesome killings, but will they be able to do so before the killer ensnares his next victim? Barnes, Foster, and Jenkins enter a race against time – and before the end of the investigation, one of them will get much too close for comfort.

I'd like to nominate Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayer. It's part of a series but can be read without reading the other books. Very funny mystery. It's available in paperback and used, but I'm not sure it's available as an e-book.

M.B. wrote: "I'd like to nominate Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayer. It's part of a series but can be read without reading the other books. Very funny mystery. It's available in paperback and used, but I'm..."

I think Dorothy Sayers is available on kindle.

It's the very last book in the series, actually. (The series starts with Whose Body?)

Now, for something completely different!

I've been depressed lately and I'm going to dust off my copies of this talented author's books and re-read them regardless.

Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen

I read Carl's "Strip Tease" and thought it was great. Plan on reading more of his.

We have more than 25 great nominations so I am going to close the thread a bit early.

Poll will open later tonight!

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