July 2017-What are you reading?

Still reading The Beautiful Mystery.

Started Devil's Bridge which I picked up on sale the other day. It's an Alexandra Cooper book who I think of as Nancy Drew grown up. They're a bit silly and they don't waver from a typical pattern, although this one is a bit. I can read it in a couple days and be entertained.

Visiting my parents and raiding my mum's collection of Rebus novels. I have to read Even Dogs in the Wild before I leave; it's signed, so it doesn't leave the house ;)

I finished up The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt last night. Set in Northern Ontario during the winter it has a great sense of setting. I also enjoyed the connection of the mystery to the FLQ crisis of 1970.

I'm enjoying the third Ruth Galloway mystery, The House at Sea's End.

Finished The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny. I expected not to like this one much because of the topic/location, but really did enjoy it.

Finished the latest (I think) of the Ruth Galloway series: The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths. Pretty good read.

I am reading a German mystery .... Snow White Must Die. Read it, great crime mystery

The last of the Last Policeman trilogy, World of Trouble by Ben H Winters.

Finished Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon. Liked it well enough.

Today I read the latest from a local (well, from Vancouver Island, anyway) writer: Chevy Stevens. The novel was Never Let You Go.

Hoping to finish Magpie Murders today.

>12 rabbitprincess: I think I'll read Magpie Murders next. It looks good.

I'm curious about Magpie Murders, too. I've seen a lot of positive buzz.

Same here. It's on my library list.

>11 ted74ca: I love her work!

I've started the 4th Ruth Galloway mystery, A Room Full of Bones.

Recently (well, over the past month) I have read:
I Am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes
Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers - loved this
There's Death in the Churchyard, by William Gore
The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
Cold is the Grave, by Peter Robinson
Written in Red, by Annie Dalton
Apple Tree Yard, by Louise Doughty

Currently reading Aftermath (Inspector Banks Book 12), by Peter Robinson

Reading a Phryne Fisher Dead man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood. Also enjoy them on TV. Actually nice to put faces on the characters.

I just loved The Last Policeman series by Ben H. Winters. The thread of this story is frightening and uplifting; even with the end of the world approaching, one man believed he had a duty to his profession. The reader is spellbound right up until the last page.

Added Fatal Headwind by Leena Lehtolainen into my reading rotation.

A friend clearing her bookshelves just sent me the entire Margaret Maron Deborah Knott series, and bless her, even packed the box in series numerical order! So off we go to North Carolina with Bootlegger's Daughter.

>22 gmathis: I love that series; hope you do, too.

>20The first one was on sale at Amazon yesterday, so I bought it. Happy to hear you like the series!

>10 seitherin: Read it a while ago. Sounds like I liked it better than you did.

>23 rosalita: Really liking it! It's still very early chapters, but the setting reminds me a little of a contemporary (and slightly rougher) Mayberry RFD with judges & lawyers instead of a sheriff. With, maybe, a little Designing Women thrown in.

I recently finished Don Winslow's The Power of the Dog and In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes. Two very different novels, but both were good reads. I am beginning Chinatown Beat by Henry Chang today.

>26 gmathis: That's the perfect description!

Added Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo to my reading rotation.

Now reading Talking to Strange Men by Ruth Rendell.

Am still at my parents' place in NH. It's been an long, trying, stressful week, but maybe things will get better. My reading and mom's hardly overlap at all, but I scrounged a PD James, a Michael Connolly and now a Jeffrey Archer - The Eleventh Commandment. After this though, I'm back to the iPad or going to the store.

I have reread a Miss Marple via audiobook - The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side. Not one of my favorites...

Then I read another Lew Archer mystery, The Far Side of the Dollar, which kept me guessing right up to the end.

Finished The Couple Next Door by Sheri Lepena I really liked this one.

Two Scottish crime fiction reads this week: A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin and The Book of Souls by James Oswald. Rankin still reigns supreme.

And finished Into the Water by Paula Hawkins today. A bit confusing to follow at first, but pretty good overall.

After listening to two Agathas on a car trip, Hercule Poirot's Christmas and Crooked House, I listened to the first part of an old Jack Reacher, Never Go Back. I'd forgotten what a good one it is! Now I'm reading the rest of it in print.

Finished Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo.

Finished The Four Legendary Kingdoms by Matthew Reilly and have a good start on Vector: A Joe Rush Novel by James Abel

I just finished Go Fast by Rod Humphris, a gripping thriller about fast boats, dangerous relations and drug smuggling. And the best thing: You can read it online for FREE! (at www.simonellice.co.uk)

My first Henning Mankel: Before the Frost

Finished Fatal Headwind by Leena Lehtolainen. Enjoyed it.

Confession Time: I've been skulking about in this topic for years as a nonmember gathering authors to check out. It has been a goldmine for new names and a confirmation of all my old favorites. I thank you all for posting. Particular thanks go out to the person who mentioned Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series (I've only seen one posting in all these years). 27 nuggets so far to be read in order. This has been the best find for me since Henning Mankel a long time ago. Thanks again!

Liked Bootlegger's Daughter so much, I jumped right in to the next one, Southern Discomfort.

am about 100 pages into the sleepwalker which is the newest chris bohjalian novel. good so far.

Reading Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt which I saw highly recommended in the Name Your Favorite Author thread. So far it has lived up to the high recommendations. Cant wait to finish it.

Devoured the fourth Fiona Griffiths book, This Thing of Darkness, by Harry Bingham, in a single day. I love Fiona.

I just finished Unknown Man No. 89 by Elmore Leonard. This novel in included in the Library of America's edition including four of Leonard's 1970s novels. It was a fun read.

I'm part wayy into Peter May's second book The Lewis Man. Generally good writing, which I sometimes find a bit slow and too detailed. I love the remote setting on the Isle of Lewis. It's very atmospheric.

>45 jwrudn: That would have been my recommendation. Glad you have found it worthwhile. Then there are five more in the Cardinal series and 3 or 4 stand alones (which I have not read but I'm sure they will be great).

I finished Vector: A Joe Rush Novel by James Abel which is a pretty good bio-thriller.

Next up is Gone Gull, a cozy mystery from Donna Andrews.

>45 jwrudn:. I've read this series too, and really enjoyed it. I recommended the author to my daughter when she was working out of North Bay, but don't know if she ever took up my suggestion.

My reading for this weekend: An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis

Taking a comfort bread to reread A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie.

I really enjoyed Celine by Peter Heller

Oh good. I have that in my latest library stack.

Trying out a new (to me) series: an Ed Loy novel: The Colour of Blood by Declan Hughes. Just wish my library carried the 1st novel in this series-I feel like I've come in half way through the performance. Pretty good read though.

Finished A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie. Love this book.

The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton
#1 Archeological Mystery series
4 ⭐️

What a nice start to a series. I enjoy anything archeological and mysteries, so this was an interesting read. The main character, Lara McClintoch, is a recently divorced and former owner of an Antique Store in Toronto, Canada. Amidst her new university studies, she receives a call from her old friend and former antiquities buyer, Dr. Castillo in Mexico. He wants her to help him hunt for an possible Mayan artifact, which survived burning by the Franciscans back in the 17th century. Dropping her studies Lara heads to Mexico and stays with family friends who own a small hotel. Before getting to speak with Dr. Castillo, he is found dead. Lara is determined to figure out what it was that might have gotten her friend killed. The story weaves in Mayan history, especially that of Xibalba, the Mayan land of the dead. She visits museums, small towns, and archeological digs in her search. A very interesting fast moving story. I can hardly wait to read the next in this series. However, I wish it were in hardcover, as I'm not a fan of paperbacks.

Just finished Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt. Quite a ride! Looking forward to the second in the series The Delicate Storm though it seems not to have quite so enthusiastic reviews as Forty Words. Till then I am back to the Cork O'Connor series by William Kent Krueger...up to #5 Copper River

I finished Gone Gull by Donna Andrews. These books are such fun. Enjoy spending time with the characters. This time they were out of Caerphilly and up at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center run by Cordelia.

Next up is The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter. I'm expecting quite a change in tone:)

I've started Magpie Murders, and so far it's a treat.

AUGUST THREAD - http://www.librarything.com/topic/266479