A Good Thriller discussion

Hello all!

The time has come to choose your book selections for your July 2016 read in the PIFM challenge.

The rules are:-

* You can choose any number of books. A minimum of two and up to a maximum of 10.

* Please, only ONE MESSAGE per member. That means NO REPLYING or CHATTING in this thread.

* Once you have made your selections and posted, when your votes start to come in you can then add your votes cast by other members beneath your book titles ie. the following might be how my list would look:-

Little Black Lies - Sharon Bolton
x 1 - Christine

Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter
x 1 - Brenda
x 1 - Perri

How you post is your choice, you can link, do pictures, the above is just an example. The key is that you stick with the one message and update it as the votes come in. Your list can be placed when the July threads go up.

PLEASE NOTE:

PIFM is meant to be FUN and not to be taken seriously. I would appreciate it if all participants just chilled and not get worked up about voting, who votes, who doesn't, etc. Please bear in mind that some will just want to vote, many don't come on everyday and most of us have time constraints. I just want a relaxed approach to it all and for you all to just enjoy the process! I'd really appreciate your courtesy in this matter. Thanks.

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July reads:
1) The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen - Melanie, Patricia, Amber, Vicki, Sophie, Mandy - *6*
2) Déjà Dead - Kathy Reichs - Kirsten *1*
3) Don't You Cry - Mary Kubica
4) The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson - Melanie, Perri, Stephanie, Brenda, Sean, Amy - *6*
5) Along Came a Spider - James Patterson - Agnieszka, Daisy - *2*



Thanks!

July picks

The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart
Dana - Daisy - Stephanie - Sophie - Brenda - Sean

The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
Melanie

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Agnieszka - Perri - Vicki

Inferno by Dan Brown
Kirsten - Amber

I'm Traveling Alone by Samuel Bjørk
Melanie - Mandy - Amy

BOOKS BASED ON MY POPSUGAR CHALLENGE



1) Naked in Death
KIRSTEN
AGNIESZKA
BRENDA
SEAN
AMY

2)Eligible
NO VOTES YET

3)Three to Get Deadly
MANDY

4)The Witches: Salem, 1692
PATRICIA
DANA
AGNIESZKA

5)Luckiest Girl Alive
VICKI

6)The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
THE DEAD DUKE

7)The Invention of Wings
DAISY
STEPHANIE

Still trying to finish up the group challenge. Only have 4 left! Help me finish!!

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold W ar by Pete Earley

1 vote - Amber

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant

2 votes - Stephanie, Sophie

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

5 votes - Perri, Melanie, Mandy, Sean, Amy

Black Water Risingby Attica Locke

3 votes - Agnieszka, Dana, Daisy

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan

4 votes - Patricia, Vicki, Melanie, Brenda

July theme: Dream Destination (everything international)

3 = (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Germany, USA) - Kirsten, Melanie (USA), Sean
2 (Greece, USA) - Brenda, Mandy
0 (Israel, Germany, USA)
2 (Africa, Australia, USA) - Perri, Amy
1 (Somalia, USA) - Daisy
0 (Iran, USA)
1 (Japan, USA) - Vicki
1 (India) - Patricia
4 (Canada) - Melanie (Ca), Dana (Ca), Amber, Sophie
1 (Middle East, USA) - Stephanie

My July picks have been chosen from reading the GoodRead feed. I have added them to my list after reading someone's comments or review.

The Good Father

The Good Mother
Patricia, Sophie

Before I Go to Sleep
Dana, Perri, Kirsten, Agnieszka, Melanie, Brenda, Mandy, Sean

Anything for Her
Daisy, Stephanie, Amy

If I Was Your Girl
Amber, Melanie

From Kerry Hunter's TBR shelf:

The Name of the Wind Patricia, Amber, Sophie, Amy

Ready Player One Melanie, Dana, Kirsten, Vicki, Stephanie, Melanie, Sean
The Last Unicorn Brenda
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Agnieszka
The Spook's Apprentice Daisy

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ( Catholicism and Fundamentalism
by Karl Keating)
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ( Æthelstan: The First King of England (The English Monarchs)
by Sarah Foot) +1
1st Melanie

3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... ( Authentic Vietnamese Cooking: Food from a Family Table
by Corinne Trang (Goodreads Author) )
4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... ( 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
by Andrew Bridgeford) +2
Patricia
Dana

5. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ( You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals
by Ellie Krieger) +1
Perri

6. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... ( The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
by Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt) +4
Daisy
Stephanie
Mandy
Sean

7. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... ( Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe: Historical Origins, Style and Philosophy
by Nick Jamilla (Goodreads Author) )
8. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ( J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
by Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien (Illustrator) ) +2
Agnieszka
Sophie

9. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ( Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs
by Erik Didriksen (Goodreads Author)) +6
Melanie
Kirsten
Vicki
Kirsten
Brenda
Amy

and 10. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... ( Memories of a Cuban Kitchen
by Mary Urrutia Randelman, Joan Schwartz)

July more Netgalley choices

1.Magnolia Moonlight Mary Ellis

Patricia, Kirsten, Agnieszka

2. Grilling the Subject Daryl Wood Gerber

Amber

3. The Agony That Remains Brandon Callahan

Dana

4. Murder, Inc.,and the Moral Life Robert Weldon Whalen

5. Faithful Alice Hoffman

Perri, Vicki, Stephanie, Melanie, Sophie, Melanie, Brenda, Mandy

My July list is books that have been sitting on my shelf or are to help towards reading challenges that I am currently involved in:

1. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Patricia, Amber, Amy (3)
2. Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin Vicki, Melanie, Stephanie, Brenda, Sean (5)
3. Toward the Sound of Chaos by Carmen Jenner Agnieszka (1)
4. Room by Emma Donoghue Dana, Melanie, Kirsten, Perri, Mandy (5)
5. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
6. The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
7. The Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg
8. The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
9. Hear the Children Calling by Clare McNally Daisy (1)

Hi, my reading list for July is:

Eeny Meeny by M. J. Arlidge

See How They Run by Tom Bale

Red Bones by Ann Cleeves

Then if I get through these quick enough on the sidelines are:

The Man In The Brown Suit by Agatha Christie (reading all her works in publication order - not very far through!)

Evil Games - Angela Marsons

Death Of The Dormouse - Reginald Hill

My July list consists of 2nd books in different series I've started.

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny - (4) Agnieszka, Stephanie, Patricia, Dana
The Treatmentby Mo Hayder - (4) Daisy, Mandy, Sean, Amy
Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon (3) Perri, Brenda, Sophie
Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham
The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen (1) Melanie
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith (2) Vicki, Kirsten
Box 21 by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom (1) Amber



Thanks everybody !

Time to Murder and Create

Cemetery Lake
*6* Agnieszka, Kirsten, Perri, Patricia, Dana, Stephanie

The Immortals
*2* Mandy, Vicki

Paint It Black
*2* Amber, Melanie (US)

Lost Souls
*1* Daisy

Better late than never - sci-fi mainly this month...

1. All the Birds in the Sky
Sophie

2. The Reapers are the Angels
Amber

3. The Kill Order
Stephanie, Sean, Amy, Melanie

4. Speak
Agnieszka

5. Sand
Perri

6. The Many Selves of Katherine North
Brenda, Daisy, Kirsten

7. The Last One
Dana, Melanie, Vicki, Patricia

I am also going to try and use some categories from my challenges and not concentrate on thrillers this month.

1. Marching Powder Mel-USA
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
4. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Sophie
5. The Help Dana, Agnieszka, Vicki, Stephanie, Brenda, Daisy
6. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Mandy, Sean
7. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things Perri
8. The Vampire Lestat Kirsten, Melanie (Can), Patricia, Amber