October 2018 ~ What are you reading?

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October 2018 ~ What are you reading?

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1seitherin
Out 1, 2018, 8:48 am

Finished Lethal White by Robert Galbraith in the early hours of this morning. Really enjoyed it.

2Molly3028
Editado: Out 1, 2018, 1:12 pm

Starting the month with this OverDrive audiobook ~

"L" is for Lawless by Sue Grafton

(Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series/a favor for a friend becomes a wild romp involving a decades-old crime)

3jwrudn
Out 1, 2018, 8:45 pm

Finished Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong, the first novel of four in Women Crime Writers Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s. Sounds contradictory, but it was both suspenseful and humorous. Reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Not too far along but a beautiful sense of place.

4Raspberrymocha
Out 2, 2018, 9:00 am

In the Shadow of the Glacier by Vicki Delany
#1 Constable Molly Smith Mystery
4 ⭐️

Molly (Moonlight) Smith is a Constable in Trafalgar, BC, Canada. It’s a little tourist town right at the edge of a glacier. Her parents Lucky and Andy run tour agency. Her mom is an aging hippie and her father is a draft dodger from the Vietnam war. Things are not settled in town as Lucky wants to make sure a Commemorative Peace garden, honoring draft dodgers, is built in the town. The town is split on whether it will hurt or help the tourist industry. While on patrol, a local business man, in opposition to the park, is found murdered in an alley, and Molly’s bike is stolen. She is teamed up with Detective Waters, a transfer from Vancouver, to find out what is going on. To make things worse, Molly’s best friend is being stalked by a violent admirer. And even worse is that an L A news anchor is in town totally stirring up protests and division in town. (This reminds me of what today’s irresponsible partisan media is doing to the US.) This is an excellent character driven story. Molly and her family are interesting people. It’s not fast paced, but there is enough happening that I easily became engrossed in the story. I can hardly wait to red more of this series.

5Dr_Flanders
Out 2, 2018, 9:13 am

>1 seitherin: I've recently been considering reading The Cuckoo's Calling, to see if I would like that series. What else would you compare it to?

I just finished reading The Quiet American by Graham Greene. I thought it was an incredible novel and it was hard to believe how much Greene seems to have anticipated about the United States continued involvement in Vietnam. For those who don't know, there is a murder mystery of sorts in the novel, but it is set in Vietnam during the early 1950s. If you are interested in that sort of thing, I highly recommend it.

6seitherin
Editado: Out 2, 2018, 2:31 pm

>5 Dr_Flanders: I've been wracking my brain trying to answer your question and I can't come up with a comparison. I can tell you it is not like Agatha Christie or Sue Grafton or any of the Nordic crime/mystery writers or Ann Cleeves. In tone, it's somewhat like Louise Penny. It is casual and not much prone to be overwrought. It develops the characters and their relationships. It is not "hard boiled". For me, the books fall into what I call "comfort reads", the kinds of book you curl up on the sofa with and enjoy a steaming cup of coffee over. I hope this helps a little.

7Dr_Flanders
Out 2, 2018, 3:14 pm

>6 seitherin: It does help, thank you for getting back to me about it. I think I will probably try out the first book in the series and then go from there. I'd been wondering if it is anything like the contemporary portion of Magpie Murders, but I think I will just give it a shot and find out.

8Molly3028
Out 3, 2018, 7:40 am

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber

(Book #1, Verity Kent/post WWI England/a letter suggests that Verity's dead husband committed treason/British narrator)

9Bookmarque
Out 3, 2018, 11:24 am

Listening to the latest Cormoran Strike novel - Lethal White and am a little peeved that things are taking the tried and true romantic longing route between Cormoran and his business partner, Robin. We've long known she shouldn't have married Matthew, but oy, she doesn't need to turn into Effie Perine.

10rabbitprincess
Out 6, 2018, 12:02 pm

Just started Seventy-Seven Clocks, a Bryant and May mystery by Christopher Fowler.

11Bookmarque
Out 6, 2018, 1:10 pm

And yesterday I started Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent. It's going in a different direction than expected so am quite pleased. The writing is a little repetitive and the author is enamored of the word inveigled.

12jwrudn
Out 6, 2018, 8:03 pm

Finished Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. A wonderful book. A murder, a trial but a lot more: a lonely marsh girl, love, abandonment, betrayal all bound together by descriptions of nature with a naturalist's eye. Excited to be starting The Man Who Came Uptown, George Pelecanos's first book in a while.

13seitherin
Out 6, 2018, 8:37 pm

Finished Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves. Liked it. I'll miss Shetland.

Next up is The Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender.

14Molly3028
Editado: Out 8, 2018, 12:22 pm

Starting this OverDrive audiobook ~

Princess: A Private Novel by James Patterson
(Jack Morgan/England/Princess Caroline, third in line to the throne, requests JM's help ~ a friend of the royal is missing)

UPDATE: pulled the plug ~ the story made a major violent detour at the mid-point.

15gmathis
Editado: Out 8, 2018, 2:51 pm

Finished (and thoroughly enjoyed) Mycroft Holmes and Anna Waterhouse. Who'da thunk it? I saw that Mycroft and Sherlock is due out this month.

Also romping through 1930's London with A Royal Pain. Fun and fluffy cozy.

16Jim53
Out 8, 2018, 9:08 pm

I just finished a re-read of Rachel Howzell Hall's series featuring LA detective Elouise (Lou) Norton. Four very fun books, although the last one is a little depressing. Trying to find out what else she's up to.

17ted74ca
Out 8, 2018, 11:25 pm

I finished Echoes of Lies by Jo Bannister. I wasn't totally blown away by this novel, but I'll try the next one in her series, if I can find it.

18Raspberrymocha
Out 9, 2018, 7:10 pm

The Apostle by Brad Thor
3 1/2 ⭐️

Scot Harvath was an American operative who lost his job with the down sizing done by the new president. However, the president has a job for him. One of the president’s big money supporters had her daughter kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Harvath accepts the job and heads for Kabul. Meanwhile, one of the president’s Secret Service agents overhears a secret which could put the president out of office. Harvath assembles a security team that must first take a Taliban mastermind from the Afghans to trade for the kidnapped young CARE doctor. A daunting task, at best, which could unravel at any time. I enjoyed the characters, the mild humor and the extreme action in this adventure. Lots of local Afgan color added to the realism. This is the first book I’ve read by Brad Thor, but I will be seeking more.

19raidergirl3
Out 9, 2018, 7:16 pm

I've started the latest Maggie Hope mystery The Prisoner in the Castle which is a play on a famous Agatha Christie book.

20seitherin
Editado: Out 10, 2018, 5:53 pm

21gypsysmom
Out 10, 2018, 6:17 pm

I'm currently listening to Echo Park by Michael Connelly. It is one of the Harry Bosch series, #12. Harry is working in the Open Unsolved unit and he is looking at an unsolved case of his own in which a young woman disappeared and was never found. Harry gets a call from another detective who wants the old file because a man found with the dismembered bodies of two women in his van is going to give details about other killings including this one. Harry gets to question the accused and his confession seems plausible but Harry always thought someone else, a rich man's son, was guilty. How could he have been so wrong?

I am a big fan of the Harry Bosch series and I like Connelly's other books too.

22Jim53
Out 11, 2018, 12:15 pm

I just started Off the Grid, #5 (I think) in the Monkeewrench series.

23Molly3028
Out 11, 2018, 12:55 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Seeing Red by Sandra Brown

(Kerra, television journalist in Texas/a hero and his estranged son/lies and conspiracy/romantic suspense)

24Copperskye
Editado: Out 11, 2018, 3:49 pm

>21 gypsysmom: Echo Park was a good one!

I’m really enjoying Don’t Look Now, a NYRB collection of stories by Daphne du Maurier. Creepy and unsettling! I’ve never read The Birds but I’ve seen the Hitchcock movie a few times. The short story is so much better.

25rabbitprincess
Out 11, 2018, 5:10 pm

Next up in my mystery reading will be a re-read of McNally's Chance.

26seitherin
Out 12, 2018, 12:14 am

Finished I am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll. Enjoyed it muchly.

27jwrudn
Out 13, 2018, 7:12 pm

Finished The Man Who Came Uptown by George Pelecanos. I am a big Pelecanos fan and this did not disappoint. Back to Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s. On to the 2nd novel in the volume: The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith.

28Molly3028
Editado: Out 15, 2018, 4:44 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

Consumed (Firefighters series) by J. R. Ward

(book #1/Anne Ashburn becomes an arson investigator after a life-changing tragedy/romantic suspense ~ Anne and Danny/family issues/fire station crew/ensemble narration)

29gmathis
Out 15, 2018, 9:01 am

How is it I have existed this long without Rumpole and She Who Must Be Obeyed? Enjoying their company now, courtesy of Rumpole Rests His Case.

30gypsysmom
Out 17, 2018, 4:20 pm

>29 gmathis: I don't know how you could have missed them this long but aren't they wonderful?

31seitherin
Editado: Out 17, 2018, 9:07 pm

Adding In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten to my reading rotation.

32Copperskye
Out 17, 2018, 9:53 pm

>29 gmathis: >30 gypsysmom: My library only seems to have A Rumpole Christmas but I may have to give it a try. Thanks!

I’ve got a 100 or so pages left to go in Michael Connelly’s The Black Box. I’m having fun hanging out with Bosch again.

33gmathis
Out 17, 2018, 9:57 pm

>30 gypsysmom: >32 Copperskye: Yes, they're a treat and I shall have to hunt down more...both in print and on video!

34ted74ca
Out 20, 2018, 9:15 am

I Know You Know by Gilly MacMillan. I was kind of disappointed with this one; usually really like her novels.

35rabbitprincess
Out 20, 2018, 10:55 am

Hoping to start Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, by Amy Stewart, this weekend.

36Molly3028
Out 20, 2018, 6:20 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

Her Last Goodbye by Melinda Leigh

(book #2, Morgan Dane series/romantic suspense/Morgan and Lance team up to find a missing mom)

37MelindaSBailey
Out 21, 2018, 3:06 pm

I just finished The Girl on The Train. I'm so out of the loop, I had ZERO spoilers. I've never seen the movie. In fact, I don't think I ever watched a trailer. In keeping with my out-of-the-loop theme, I have started on The Circle by Dave Eggers, which is possibly a thriller.: One that starts out very slowly, but I'm mostly enjoying it, and, as a Bay Area tech employee, it really speaks to me.

38flips
Out 21, 2018, 3:14 pm

I'm reading Dead Scared by Sharon Bolton. Read Now You see me first and enjoyed it so much that I went straight on to read the next book in the series.

39gmathis
Out 22, 2018, 9:22 am

>35 rabbitprincess: Glad to hear the Kopp sisters are at it again! I've only read Girl Waits With Gun, but I'm looking forward to following their further progress.

40rabbitprincess
Out 22, 2018, 4:32 pm

>39 gmathis: It was really good! What I love about the books is not only the mysteries themselves, but also Amy Stewart's author's notes where she explains what is fact and what is fiction.

41Copperskye
Out 22, 2018, 8:51 pm

It’s been quite a while since I’ve read one of Charles Todd’s Ian Rutledge books and so I’ve started the next one up for me, A Fearsome Doubt.

42seitherin
Editado: Out 23, 2018, 4:21 pm

Added Machine City by Scott J. Holliday to my reading rotation.

43seitherin
Editado: Out 23, 2018, 8:06 pm

Finished my review copy of In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten. Enjoyed it.

Next into the rotation is a review copy of Someone Like Me by M. R. Carey.

44rabbitprincess
Out 23, 2018, 8:34 pm

Starting Red Bones, by Ann Cleeves.

45ColinMichaelFelix
Out 24, 2018, 12:14 am

46ted74ca
Out 24, 2018, 9:55 pm

The Breakdown by B.A.Paris. Very much in need of a severe edit, unsympathetic characters, and I figured out the whole story just a couple of chapters in.

47Molly3028
Out 25, 2018, 1:06 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

The Perfect Witness: A Novel by Iris Johansen

(suspense/psychic abilities/crime family/witness protection program/a stand-alone book)

48ted74ca
Out 26, 2018, 11:18 am

Enjoyed this clever little story, a novella, by Gillian Flynn, The Grownup.

49ted74ca
Out 27, 2018, 7:25 pm

Glad I stumbled across this series, new to me-the D.I. Callanach series by Helen Fields. I finished the first one today Perfect Remains and really liked it.

50tottman
Out 28, 2018, 12:23 am

I'm reading The Other Wife by Michael Robotham and it's really good. He has such a way with characters.

51gmathis
Editado: Out 28, 2018, 5:41 pm

Discovered Madeleine's War at, of all places, a Dollar Tree. Hard to put down. WWII history, romance, espionage, and a good deal of suspense.

52rabbitprincess
Out 28, 2018, 6:44 pm

Finished Red Bones, by Ann Cleeves, and will probably have to request Blue Lightning right away.

Also started Hamlet, Revenge!, by Michael Innes.

53rocketjk
Out 31, 2018, 1:08 pm

Yesterday I finished Dragonfish by Vu Tran. This is a well written noir-type mystery about an Oakland policeman who must travel to Las Vegas and navigate the seamier side of the Vietnamese refugee community there to find and help his ex-wife, Suzy.

54ColinMichaelFelix
Editado: Nov 1, 2018, 6:37 pm

Finished Rules Of Vengeance by Christopher Reich. Totally enjoyable and thrillingly twisty ride. A good follow up to Rules of Deception. Looking forward to complete the trilogy with Rules of Betrayal. However, first a slight detour with Scandalous Behavior by Stuart Woods.