June 2017-What are you reading?

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June 2017-What are you reading?

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1seitherin
Jun 1, 2017, 2:39 pm

Getting the new topic started. Good reading, everyone.

2raidergirl3
Jun 1, 2017, 2:54 pm

Just started The Abominable Man by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahoo

3raidergirl3
Editado: Jun 1, 2017, 2:54 pm

Este mensaje fue borrado por su autor.

4rabbitprincess
Jun 1, 2017, 6:51 pm

Plowing through the Fiona Griffiths series and am on number three, The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths.

5tottman
Jun 1, 2017, 10:46 pm

6flips
Jun 2, 2017, 7:33 am

Just started reading How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny.

7leslie.98
Editado: Jun 2, 2017, 6:35 pm

Finished The Empty Copper Sea, #17 in the Travis McGee series.

8Hope_H
Jun 3, 2017, 1:03 am

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
★ ★ ★ ★ - 388 pages

Jules Abbott is called back to Beckford to identify her dead sister's body and to take care of her fifteen-year-old niece Lena. Jules' family spent their summers in the Mill House, right on the river near an area the locals call "The Drowning Pool." Nel Abbott's body had been found there. Nel had always had a fascination with the pool and with the women whose lives ended there: Libby Seaton, Anne Ward, Lauren Townsend, Katie Whittaker. As Jules tries to figure out why her sister took her own life, she must relive some of her past and question her sister's motives.

Each short chapter in this book is told from one of fifteen perspectives - Jules, Lena, Sean Townsend - the detective on the case, Erin Morgan - the detective sergeant, and others. Each person has a secret and hidden motives. It can be confusing, although by the last third of the book the reader has a much clearer picture where things are heading. There are a few plot twists that you may not see coming!

I liked this one - maybe not quite as much as The Girl on the Train, but still good!

9seitherin
Jun 3, 2017, 10:27 pm

Added A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny into my reading rotation. I have a need for a comfort read amidst the other books I'm reading.

10SFF1928-1973
Jun 5, 2017, 6:23 am

I've just started The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson. I may be some time.

11seitherin
Jun 6, 2017, 8:16 am

Finished A Trick of the Light. As always, did not disappoint.

12patwo
Editado: Jun 7, 2017, 5:03 pm

Just finished Fallout by Sara Paretsky. About to start The third sin by Aline Templeton.

Also working through Åsne Seierstad's One of us, true crime, about the massacre of 77 young people in Norway in 2011.

13Bookmarque
Jun 7, 2017, 6:26 pm

Just started Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane. I haven't read any of his recent historical fiction books, but am pleased to report that he can still write the walls down.

14seitherin
Jun 8, 2017, 8:20 am

Added Death Spiral by Leena Lehtolainen to my reading rotation.

15leslie.98
Editado: Jun 8, 2017, 9:05 am

Finished The Neon Rain, the first Robicheaux book. Well written but not really my kind of mystery.

16Lynxear
Jun 8, 2017, 12:07 pm

>10 SFF1928-1973: You will like this book The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson.... this is supposed to be a translation from Swedish... if it is that translator is worth his/her weight in gold.

17jnwelch
Jun 8, 2017, 5:09 pm

I just got my hands on No Middle Name, a collection of Jack Reacher short stories.

18Zumbanista
Editado: Jun 8, 2017, 9:51 pm

Oops, posted in May not June: After a short hiatus from reading, I've just started The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg, I love my Scandi-noir!

19gmathis
Jun 9, 2017, 8:49 am

Stranded on a Journey to Munich with Maisie Dobbs (Jaqueline Winspear). Very, very good.

20seitherin
Jun 10, 2017, 5:35 pm

Added The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø into my reading rotation.

21Bookmarque
Jun 10, 2017, 5:58 pm

Golden Prey which is the 27th Prey novel! Sandford is up to his usual excellence though and just when you think you know Davenport thru and thru, there's a new aspect. Great dialog, too.

22Lynxear
Jun 13, 2017, 10:49 pm

I am currently reading Blood Work by Michael Connelly... I like Connelly's writing a lot... but as I read the book several scenes vaguely trigger images and seem familiar. Sure enough there was a movie by the same name in 2002 and possibly I have seen the movie... That is ok though... Like Lincoln Lawyer a movie I saw and later read the book, I am sure I will get more out of when I complete this book

23SFF1928-1973
Editado: Jun 15, 2017, 3:59 am

>16 Lynxear: I suppose I have to admit to liking it overall...I'm just sad that it kind of fell apart at the end. Also some of the developments in the Salander character didn't seem to fit with her portrayal in the previous book. Anyway I think I need another seven year break before I attempt the next one.

24Lynxear
Jun 15, 2017, 3:12 pm

>23 SFF1928-1973: I will admit that I did not read the previous book, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, rather I saw the movie and was told the book was almost 100% the same so it would not be worth reading. So the only thing I missed was really getting into her head in that first movie... so you may be right in the slight character misfit... but I did not see it and thoroughly enjoyed the book The Girl who Played with Fire and intend to get the next in the series eventually.

I tend to like the books of any type better that the movies that they spawn. I am currently reading Blood Work having seen the movie about 15 years ago... so I know who the villain is but why did they switch the names of the villain with a witness to the first murder (in the book the "buddy's" last name is Lockridge and a witness to the ATM robbery is James Noone... in the movie they are reversed) and I cannot see Clint Eastwood in this story as the hero, Terry McCaleb. But knowing the plot and removal of the mystery does not take away from my enjoyment of the book since the added detail feeds me.

The only movie that was better than the book was "Jurassic Park"... the book was so full of holes but the movie was mind blowing

25leslie.98
Jun 15, 2017, 7:16 pm

I just finished a reread via audiobook of 4:50 From Paddington. Even though I remembered who the culprit was, Joan Hickson's narration made this a delightful experience!

Now I am onto a grittier book, Mystic River by Lehane. I haven't seen the movie but hope to see it sometime soon after I finish the book...

26seitherin
Jun 16, 2017, 9:07 pm

Finished Death Spiral by Leena Lehtolainen. Enjoyed it.

27Lynxear
Jun 17, 2017, 3:32 am

Just finished Blood Work and I am glad I did.... the movie has bits and pieces of the book but they changed the ending which I thought was kinda cheesy in the movie and the murderer was not who I thought it would be. So I am glad I read this book and can forget about a stripped down screen play from the book.

28Dr_Flanders
Jun 17, 2017, 6:16 pm

>27 Lynxear:

I felt the same way about Blood Work. I thought the novel was alright, but the movie was a little disappointing. I felt like the ending change seemed like a contrived twist ending or something, and I think Eastwood was pretty well miscast as the lead. But then again, I really refer Connelly's Bosch and Haller novels to other works, with the possible exception of The Poet, which I think I remember liking.

29ted74ca
Jun 18, 2017, 1:00 am

Continuing on with the Wesley Peterson murder mystery series, though I'm not over the moon about any of them so far. The Armada Boy by Kate Ellis

30Lynxear
Jun 18, 2017, 5:59 am

>28 Dr_Flanders: I have The Poet on my shelf and I thought this and Blood Work were stand-alones, but Connelly weaves all of his books together... even McCaleb considering Micky Haller as a defense attorney at one point in the book.

There are also several references to "The Poet" and also a case called the "Coder" or something like it.... that case was not solved apparently and this book seemed to be a second novel resolving that case....but this is book one of the McCaleb series and he seems to have been the lead investigator... so that was a bit confusing for me....still is.

I really like the depth of Connelly's writing... I am a details guy and his books furnish that in spades. Only one thing I don't really like is he often reaches a climax with about 50 pages or so left... it feels like an ending to the book... but then he blasts away in the next 50 pages to tie together every loose end...bang...bang...bang...the real ending seems an anti-climax to me.

It is ok once in a while but I see a pattern here that I hope does not continue.

31Dr_Flanders
Jun 18, 2017, 11:15 am

>30 Lynxear:

You're right that they aren't exactly stand-alones. The only Connelly book I can't think of that doesn't have some connection to the others is called Chasing the Dime. There is another called Void Moon which is sort of hinted at in a Bosch book, but probably falls short of a full reference.

I think the book you are thinking of that continues the story of The Poet is called The Scarecrow. I remember mostly enjoying The Poet

32rabbitprincess
Jun 18, 2017, 11:20 am

Starting yet another series: Billy Boyle, by James R. Benn.

33jwrudn
Jun 18, 2017, 2:56 pm

Just finished The Dry: A novel by Jane Harper, a first novel that lived up to its excellent reviews. The heat and drought of Australia is palpable.

34ColinMichaelFelix
Jun 18, 2017, 6:46 pm

Thought I had already contributed to this thread. Anyway, I've been reading A Case of Redemption by Adam Mitzner and The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva

35raidergirl3
Jun 18, 2017, 7:07 pm

I've been reading His Master's Voice by Ivy Litvinov, a Russian mystery written in 1930.

36Dr_Flanders
Jun 19, 2017, 11:28 am

I am reading The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis, which was written in the 1940. It is a novel about the murder of a professor on a college liberal arts campus. This novel is part of a collection put together by the Library of America, which collects female crime writers from the 1940s. It is pretty interesting so far.

37Bookmarque
Jun 19, 2017, 4:38 pm

I read that last year as part of that collection and liked it quite a bit.

38tottman
Jun 19, 2017, 8:22 pm

>33 jwrudn: The Dry was my favorite read last year!

I just finished The Force by Don Winslow and it's excellent! Now I'm working on UNSUB by Meg Gardiner and it is also really good!

39ted74ca
Jun 20, 2017, 4:12 pm

1st one in a new (to me) Scottish crime fiction series: Natural Causes by James Oswald. Not bad, but definitely not the "new Ian Rankin" as the cover blurb promised.

40Dr_Flanders
Jun 20, 2017, 6:50 pm

>38 tottman:

I just picked up The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow because I kept hearing such good things about him. If I like it, I think I will move on to The Cartel and The Force.

41ted74ca
Jun 20, 2017, 8:31 pm

Home sick in bed today, so between naps I finished a light suspense/historical mystery/ghost story The Evening Spider by Emily Arsenault

42tottman
Jun 20, 2017, 9:48 pm

>40 Dr_Flanders: He has a very interesting writing style. I hope you enjoy.

44jnwelch
Jun 21, 2017, 8:47 am

I've started the newest Fiona Griffiths mystery, Deepest Grave.

45alans
Jun 21, 2017, 2:01 pm

I'm in the middle of The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell, she never fails to blow me away, great writer, great story.

46seitherin
Jun 22, 2017, 10:50 pm

Added The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie to my reading rotation.

47Raspberrymocha
Jun 23, 2017, 11:08 am

Changing Woman by Aimee and David Thurlo
An Ella Clah novel
4 1/2 ⭐️s

I chose this book as I have always enjoyed Tony Hillerman mysteries. I was completely won over by this book featuring Ella Clah, a Navajo Rez policewoman. She carefully tries to balance her life between her job, her young daughter Dawn, and her traditionalist mother Rose. Ella and her fellow Rez police officers are being run ragged due to a shortage of staff, lack of equipment, and a series of vandalism, bombings and murder. If that weren't enough, tensions are high due to the upcoming vote by the tribal council concerning allowing gambling on the Rez. Unemployment is high and the jobs are desperately needed. The modernists want the casino, but traditionalists like Rose think there are better ways to help their community. Ella's has to find out who is responsible for the chaos and put a stop to it. The FBI is called in, and Ella is also getting help from an unknown email source, calling himself Coyote. I enjoyed learning about Navajo customs while following Ella on her quest to bring order to the Rez. I look forward to reading more in this series.

48jnwelch
Jun 23, 2017, 1:28 pm

The new Fiona Griffiths mystery, The Deepest Grave, was another strong one. What a great series.

49seitherin
Jun 23, 2017, 10:52 pm

Finished The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie. Old comfort read. Still enjoy it.

50gmathis
Jun 25, 2017, 6:19 pm

I am gleefully following Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewellyn around Whitechapel in Anatomy of Evil.

51ColinMichaelFelix
Jun 25, 2017, 7:22 pm

Just finished a very satisfying The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva. One gripe though: I've noticed this very unnerving trend in the last few books I've read, the very unnecessary epilogue. It's as though as the book ends the author realizes he may have left some loose ends, so he decides he MUST tie them all up very neatly and painfully so. What's up with that? The bad guy is vanquished and some semblance of order is restored, the end. I don't need all those unnecessary details as to exactly what the hero and his cohorts do after said action. I want to close the book knowing there have been some satisfaction and move on to the next book. I have lots to read. Anyway I found that to be the only "failing" in an otherwise well written entry into the Gabriel Allon catalog. I've started reading Trial By Fire by J. A. Jance. This will be my first Ali Reynolds although I have read and quite enjoyed her Joanna Brady series.

52seitherin
Jun 27, 2017, 4:26 pm

53Lynxear
Jun 27, 2017, 4:30 pm

I am starting The Girl who kicked a Hornets Nest this is the third in a series by Larsson literally following The Girl who played with Fire. So much so, that the first 50 pages sort of recounts the previous book with some extra information. A long book as are the others but I look forward to the read.

54Limelite
Jun 27, 2017, 4:32 pm

Not reading it yet. Just downloaded Donna Leon's The Golden Egg. While murder mysteries are not my favorite genre, Leon's Commissario Brunetti is such a compassionate and self-effacing police detective and his family are examples of loving functional people that I enjoy where her novels take me. They take place in Venice. (heh heh) What's not to like?

55seitherin
Jun 28, 2017, 12:52 pm

Doing a mini Agatha Christie binge. Finished Sleeping Murder and about to start Five Little Pigs.

56jnwelch
Jun 28, 2017, 3:31 pm

I'm trying the first Ruth Galloway mystery, The Crossing Places.

57raidergirl3
Jun 28, 2017, 3:51 pm

I'm starting a new series, The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill and it is very good so far.

58seitherin
Jun 29, 2017, 2:16 pm

59jnwelch
Jun 29, 2017, 2:30 pm

I thoroughly enjoyed the first Ruth Galloway mystery, The Crossing Places, and immediately got hold of the second, Janus Stone.

60seitherin
Jun 30, 2017, 1:11 pm

61gypsysmom
Jun 30, 2017, 3:50 pm

>57 raidergirl3: I love Colin Cotterill. Once you've finished the Dr. Siri series you can move on to the Jimm Jirree series which are just as good.

62jwrudn
Jun 30, 2017, 7:34 pm

Just finished Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger, number 5 in the Cork O'Connor series. I have enjoyed them but after the first four, this one felt a bit stale. Nevertheless, it ends in a cliffhanger and, from the reviews, the next one Copper River is a change of pace. Onward I go.

63Dr_Flanders
Jul 1, 2017, 10:15 am

Just finished The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. The comparisons to James Ellroy are fair, particularly to the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. I didn't find it as enjoyable as Ellroy's novels but I liked it well enough to go ahead and buy The Cartel, which is the sequel.

I am now reading In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.

64jnwelch
Jul 1, 2017, 12:51 pm

Loved the second Ruth Galloway, The Janus Stone, so I've started the third, The House at Sea's End.

65Bookmarque
Jul 1, 2017, 1:44 pm

Oooh - In a Lonely Place is so good.

66seitherin
Jul 1, 2017, 1:56 pm