Cedar Falls Public Library discussion

Throughout the month of February we'll read a suspense/thriller title we haven't read before and tell the group what we thought of it.

I just finished Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm, which I really liked because it was about the literary world of London and interpreting text to solve a mystery. I have just begun China Mieville's The City & the City, which is sort of a speculative fiction/suspense story.

I have read "The Silkworm" and Galbraith's 1st book "The Silkworm" I enjoyed reading both of them. The author has a 3rd book in the series, "Career of evil" that I am hoping to read soon.

I've read all 3 Galbraith's and loved them. I am so glad this is Suspense/Thriller month, because I have just discovered a new author. Mary Kubica--I love her. Suspense that is very well written, told from multiple narrators, foreshadowing and plot twists, dark love and light love, and some nicely done psychological stuff that you don't always get in suspense. Loved "The Good Girl" and now listening to "Pretty Baby." I can see a train wreck slowly, surely emerging from the fog in that one. Btw--I listened to both, and the narrators are great, too.

Her books sound awesome Sheryl. I am planning to read a Mary Kubica book this month. Maybe I'll listen to one.

I finished The City & the City, and it...is hard to describe. The plot is a murder case, but the setting steals the show: the city-states of Beszel and Ul Quomo exist within the same physical space, but completely separate with some areas that belong to both cities.....the citizens of each are conditioned from birth to only acknowledge the people and places that belong to the city they live in, and to notice anything going on in the other city (which occupies the same space) is highly illegal. A woman is found murdered in an area that overlaps both cities, so detectives from both cities must work together without breaching city boundaries to solve the case. Very interesting, but not a light read.

Jessica, that does sound interesting but complex.

I finished "The Good Girl" by Mary Kubica. I loved it. Mia who is a daughter of a judge is supposed to be kidnapped for ransom. The guy who is hired to deliver her to the kidnappers decides to protect her from them and kidnaps her himself. It is told from the perspectives of Mia's Mother, the investigating detective and the kidnapper. It also goes back in forth in time from before she escapes her kidnapper and afterwards. Mia has post-traumatic distress disorder so she can't tell people what happened and who hired her kidnapper. It is very well done and I will be reading more May Kubica books in the future.

I read "The City & The City" a few years back, and you nailed it-it is not a light read. Not sure I really understood all of it.

Has anyone read "Blood Line" by John J. Davis? It's scored at 4.57 stars on Goodreads, which is pretty high. New mystery/thriller series (well, 2014), has won some awards.