Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

JF: Look Again Look Again
NR: American Wife American Wife A Novel

JanG wrote: "JF: Look Again Look Again
NR: American Wife American Wife A Novel"

Hope you like American Wife, Jan. I read it last year and enjoyed it.

JF: Blue Twilight A Rachel Porter Mystery
NR: Dead and Gone, The Way Home, Stargazer

JF: Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
NR: Heaven Preserve Us by Cricket McRae

Melodie wrote: "JanG wrote: "JF: Look Again Look Again
NR: American Wife American Wife A Novel"

Hope you like American Wife, Jan. I read it last year and enjoyed it.
I am thoroughly enjoying it. It's 555 pages and I think I'll finish it tonight or at least by tomorrow. It's very interesting!
JF: ..."

JanG wrote: "JF: Look Again Look Again
NR: American Wife American Wife A Novel"

i read an arc of american wife before it was released and really enjoyed it. hope you like it!

i keep trying to read cutting for stone because i've heard such good things about it but the library keeps calling me! tomorrow i am picking up the new greg rucka. can't wait to see what he's done with atticus after the way the last book ended.

JF: Borderline by Nevada Barr

NR: Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

Sherry:
I am eager to get Greg Rucka's new Atticus book Walking Dead and catch up with the series too! I am 3 of 5 holds, so when it arrives in circulation, I should get it shortly.

Sherry wrote: "i keep trying to read cutting for stone because i've heard such good things about it but the library keeps calling me! tomorrow i am picking up the new greg rucka. can't wait to see what he's done with atticus after the way the last book ended..."

Walking Deadis the book upstairs I am reading, the newest Atticus book. I discovered this series around the time Lehane gave his Patrick a permenant vacation, also reading Absent Friends I guess I would call this a determation read, got about 30 pages in and not holding my interest, but the back and forth plots never do. And my favorite book right now 2nd Chance is my car and baseball book, I didnt like patterson due to short chapters, but the short lived series, got me interested enough to read them. teresa

Teresa: Stick with Absent Friends. It is well worth dealing with the alternating point of views.

Teresa wrote: " also reading Absent Friends I guess I would call this a determation read, got about 30 pages in and not holding my interest, but the back and forth plots never do."

I plan on it, I quite enjoy the 2001 storyline but not the flip back to 1978, It would be easier if it was done by parts. teresa

Ann wrote: "Teresa: Stick with Absent Friends. It is well worth dealing with the alternating point of views.

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Plus then you will be able to go over to the Spoiler thread and discuss it more!

LOL Like I need another reason to hang on this board and people wonder why I wont do face book,

J/F: Dead and Gone I LOVED it!!! Lots going on in this one with the vamps, the weres and the fairies, too!

JF: The Courage Tree by Diane Chamberlain
NR: Blue Heaven by CJ Box

Lori

Melodie:
Thanks for the tip!
Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone is finally on the way to the library hold shelf for me along with Greg Rucka's Walking Dead. It may be another week before I get them, but they are on the way!! NR Carol OConnell's Bone by Bone It is really good!

Melodie wrote: "J/F: Dead and Gone I LOVED it!!! Lots going on in this one with the vamps, the weres and the fairies, too!"

JF Bone by Bone (Carol O'Connell) - this was a VERY good book!
NR The Renegades and ALWAYS LOOKING UP The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

JF Dead Silence by RW White and Wicked Prey> by John Sandord
NR The Nightingale by Morgana Gallaway

I can't find the latter book, which is for a book group, when I search Goodreads. It was recently published, Gallaway's first novel, and is set in today's Mosul, Iraq... about a young, educated, modern woman who, since Saddam's fall, must now adhere to strict tradition in all she does. I'll read this alternately with Connelly's The Scarecrow

Well... I thought I correctly formatted my previous post but guess not...

Don't feel bad Sally, I haven't figured it all out yet either :)

Sally/Aymster54 wrote: "JF Dead Silence by RW White and Wicked Prey by John Sandord
NR The Nightingale by Morgana Gallaway

I can't find the latter book, which is for a book group, when I search Goodreads. It was recentl..."

Sally, did you include the author's name in your search? I just did a search for Morgana Gallaway and found her book. She's a Goodreads author. There's a Kindle edition as well as a print edition, and there's a preview.

Shomeret

Sally/Aymster54 wrote: "Well... I thought I correctly formatted my previous post but guess not..."

Sally check your codes. the code to STOP italics has a backslash before the "i". that's what should appear at the end of the quoted text.

JF ---- well, nothing actually.
I am more IP In progress! :)
I am going to finish Borderline today (ok, maybe really late tonight) Ironically I paid off my library fine of $1.90 yesterday and will probably add ten cents back for this book that was due yesterday. It will be worth it!
NR -- this is "Next" reading this time.....
perhaps The Tenth Gift or Gone Tomorrow

j/f: cutting for stone- abraham verghese

n/r: out of range- cj box

Just finished Fine Just the Way it Is by Annie Proulx and ready to start The Lace Reader.

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I just finished this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention it. I thought it was a very good book, with a plot that kept me guessing until the end.

Donna in Southern Maryland

NR Mercedes Coffin, by Faye Kellerman. Anybody reading this book?

JF: The Girl She Used to Be

NR: The Neighbor

Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "The Last Child
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I just finished this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention it. I thought it was a very good book, with a plot that kept me guess..."

I added this to my to read list, what did you think of the book, the reviews and summaries make it sound good

JanG wrote: "JF: The Girl She Used to Be what did you think of this book? summaries make it sound good, I love GR that I can just click and read about a book

NR: The Neighbor"

JF The Scarecrow.....Michael Connelly
NR Pursuit......Karen Robards

Teresa wrote: "Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "The Last Child
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I just finished this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention it. I thought it was a very goo..."


Teresa, I am no good at writing book reviews, but I thought it was a very well written story with an unusual plot, and several twists that kept me guessing until the end. I'm one of those people that can usually figure out whodunit quite often. Any writer that can fool me is a pleasant surprise!

Donna i Southern Maryland

Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "The Last Child
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I just finished this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention it. I thought it..."

i read it, too, and i liked it but didn't love it. maybe it was my mood while i read it but i thought there was too much going on..lol(at least that's what i think i thought)

Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "The Last Child
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I just finished this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention it. I thought it..."

Donna, don't sell yourself short, this is a pretty good review!

Teresa wrote: "JanG wrote: "JF: The Girl She Used to Be what did you think of this book? summaries make it sound good, I love GR that I can just click and read about a book

NR: [book:The N..."

Teresa,
I enjoyed this book. It was not a mystery/thriller, but a very quick read. I think I finished it in one day. It was an interesting look into the Witness Protection System. A little sad at the end. What a tough life for those who have to go into the program...

JF: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dare

NR: The Sweetness at the bottom of the pie

Alyce:
I have both of these books on my tbr list to get to soon! They both look good! Being on vacation this week, my tbr is growing and growing! What did you think of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane?
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
My current reading JF Look Again
NR Gone Tomorrow

Alyce wrote: "JF: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
NR: The Sweetness at the bottom of the pie"

Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "The Last Child
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I just finished this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention it. I thought it..."

that's a good review, tells me how much you like it and makes me want to check it out

I just came back from camping at the lake for five days, and I managed to finish Mayhem in Miniature by Margaret Grace and Death Loves a Messy Desk by Mary Jane Maffini.

I just started Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke.

Just Finished John Connolly's The Lovers. He certainly returns to his spooky roots in this one. Angel and Lewis are there, but provide scant comic relief to the doings beyond our comprehension. This is a backstory book; tells us where Charlie Parker came from.
Barry

Barry:
The Lovers by John Connolly
ahhh this makes me even more eager to get to this one!!!

Barry wrote: "Just Finished John Connolly's The Lovers. He certainly returns to his spooky roots in this one. Angel and Lewis are there, but provide scant comic relief to the doings beyond our comprehension. This is a backstory book; tells us where Charlie Parker came from"

j/fNightshade around 4.5, the option for writing reviews is gone right now : (

n/rThe Cheaterstill not into the meat of the plot, but the set up of the various characters has me hooked,

n/r The Rosary Girls a Novelthird try for this book, 2nd chapter bothered me, now I am hooked

Thank goodness that the kids can swim alone in the public pool now that the youngest is old enough, I just need to be on the deck for her, 2-3 hrs of reading : ) I have even mastered read and glance up and not lose my place very paragraph or so : )

j/f: below zero- cj box
n/r: the neighbor- lisa gardner

Just Finished Aunt Dimity Vampire Hunter

Now Reading: The Hot Flash Club

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Shomeret

J/F - Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais
N/R Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke

Meredith:
I have been curious about this one! Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter

Meredith wrote: "Just Finished Aunt Dimity Vampire Hunter"

Just finished: Look Again


Gone Tomorrow


Both were page turners; each was done in 2 days.

Donna in Southern Maryland

Donna:
I recently listened to Look Again and am currently reading Gone Tomorrow.
They are both very hard to put down!

Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "Just finished: Look Again
Gone Tomorrow
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Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "Just finished: Look Again


[What did you think of Look again? Gave me lots to think about whether I would call the number if I saw the number or not, I KNOW I wouldn't do have the things the journalist did, that is why it got a 3 from me. If she didnt do so many stupid things it would of been higher.