A Good Thriller discussion

Hello all!

The time has come to choose your book selections for your May 2017 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 May threads go up.

Tra la, it's May, the lusty Month of May
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray
That darling month when everyone throws self-control away
It's wild, it's gay, depraved in every way
Tra la, it's here, that shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear

Here are my choices:

A Drop of Chinese Blood by James Church (Inspector O #5)
2 votes - Amber, Ann

The Eye Of The Forest by P.B. Kerr (Children of the Lamp #5)

Paradise by the Rifle Sights by Leslie Langtry (Bombay Family of Assassins #5)
1 vote - Joni

Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers (Charlie Chan #5)
3 votes - Patricia, Perri, Donna

Slow Burn by Julie Garwood (Buchanan #5)
12 votes - Vicki, Dana, Veronica, Dana, Mandy, Romanticbookworm, Amy, Daisy, Sophie, Lisa, Sean, Agnieszka

My May list:

Diamonds for Diamond
Amber

Alexandria Rising
Veronica - Agnieszka

Everything You Want Me to Be
Vicki - Dana - Perri - Mandy - Amy - Joni - Lisa - Sean

The Cutaway

Close Your Eyes
Daisy

Caraval
Kirsten - Romantic - Dana - Sophie - Donna - Ann

Here are my choices for May's PIFM:

A Most Novel Revenge
Joni

The Concrete Blonde
Vicki, Patricia, Perri, Amber, Donna, Ann, Sean

The Cuckoo's Calling
Kirsten, Dana, Dana, Mandy, Amy, Daisy, Agnieszka

Lost Among the Living

Rain Fall
Lisa

Shades of Milk and Honey
Romanticbookworm

So my picks for this month are all ones that I had put on TBR in 2014. Going to try to clean it up a bit and read an oldie!

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Kirsten, Patricia, Veronica, Amber, Romantic, Joni

The Lifeboat
Perri, Dana, Sophie, Ann, Sean, Agnieszka

Strings
Dana, Amy, Donna, Lisa

Watched

Beneath the Mask of Sanity
Mandy, Daisy

Maestra
Kirsten
Sizzling Sixteen
Patricia
The Road
Veronica, Dana, Perri, Amber

Challenges again -

1. All the Light We Cannot See
Kirsten, Vicki, Dana, Donna, Ann

2. House of Leaves
Perri, Daisy

3. Dead Simple
Patricia, Amber, Amy, Joni, Lisa, Agnieszka

4. The Bat
Veronica, Dana, Sophie, Sean

5. Beneath the Ashes

6. In the Blood
Romanticbookworm

Challenges/randoms again for me:

1) Memoirs of a Geisha - Vicki, Amber, Sophie, Lisa, Ann
2) Before the Fall - Jenni, Daisy, Donna
3) Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Perri, Dana, Amy, Agnieszka
4) The Mephisto Club - Veronica, Patricia, Romantic, Sean
5) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Kirsten, Mandy, Joni

Thrillers I want to read this year:

Behind Closed Doors Kirsten, Dana, Dana, RBW, Jennnie, Daisy
Disturbed
Bird Box Vicki, Patricia, Veronica, Amber, Mandy, Amy, Sophie, Donna
Rubbernecker Lisa, Agnieszka
I Remember You Joni, Ann

Dana wrote: "Maestra
Sizzling Sixteen
The Road"

Maestra
Sizzling Sixteen
The Road

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (Æthelstan: The First King of England (The English Monarchs)
by Sarah Foot) +1
Romanticbookworm

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... ( Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe: Historical Origins, Style and Philosophy
by Nick Jamilla (Goodreads Author) ) +1
Joni

3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... ( Starfighters of Adumar (Star Wars: X-Wing #9)
by Aaron Allston) +1
Donna

4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... ( The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American
by Jeff Smith, Chris Cart (Illustrator) )
5. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... ( James Beard's American Cookery
by James Beard)
6. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... ( A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual
by Amy Lee-Tai, Felicia Hoshino (Illustrator) )
7. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ( Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
by Wayne A. Wiegand) +1
Vicki

8. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... ( The Best of James Herriot: The Favorite Stories of One of the Most Beloved Writers of Our Time
by James Herriot) +9
Kirsten
Patricia
Dana (1)
Amy
Daisy
Lisa
Ann
Sean
Agnieszka

9. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ( The Jedi in the Lotus: Star Wars and the Hindu Tradition
by Steven J. Rosen, Jonathan Young)
and 10. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... ( Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson) +1
Mandy

Perri wrote: "Dana wrote: "Maestra
Sizzling Sixteen
The Road"

Maestra
Sizzling Sixteen
The Road [boo..."

Thank you!! :)

My choices for May are all library books:

After She's Gone - - Sean

**The Cinderella Murder - - Amy, Agnieswka

It Happened One Autumn-

Treason - - Perri

Mean Streak - - Daisy, Lisa, Vicki

Long Way To A Small Angry Planet - - Kirsten, veronica, Mandy, Joni

Dogs Of Riga - - Amber

Sentinel Mage -

My Cousin Rachel - - Patricia, Dana, Sophie, Donna, Ann

*** Had to withdraw Cinderella Murder as never realised it was book two in the series and had to take it back to the library. ***

Some choices for May in honour of Miss Kerry Hunter <3

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses Donna
2. Evil Games Patricia, Veronica, Daisy, Sean
3. Cinder RBW, Sophie, Lisa
4. Into the Darkest Corner Mandy, Jennie
5. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Perri
6. Fractured Dana, Joni, Ann
7. Like This, For Ever
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Kirsten
9. A is for Alibi Amber
10. My Sister's Grave Vicki, Agnieszka

Random tbr list
Big Little Lies
Veronica, Daisy, Perri, Donna
Faithful Place
Kirsten
Girls in White Dresses
Amber
The Surgeon
Vicki, Patricia, Dana, Mandy, Romantic, Sophie, Amy, Lisa, Ann, Sean
The Blackhouse
Agnieszka

1. The Lake

Romanticbookworm

2. 180 Seconds

Donna

3. The Lucky Ones

Patricia, Vicki, Mandy, Perri, Sean

4. In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

Kirsten, Veronica, Dana,

5. Sleep Tight

Joni, Lisa

6. The Twisted Tongues

Ann

7. The Atlantis Code

Amber

8. White Fur

Amy, Sophie

My choices for May are books I want to buy with my birthday money (as well as some left on my kindle):

1. Swallows And Amazons by Arthur Ransome
2. Two By Two by Nicholas Sparks Dana, Daisy (2)
3. The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss Perri (1)
4. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Amber, RomanticBW, Donna, Lisa, Ann, Kirsten (6)
5. Chasing Embers by James Bennett Veronica (1)
6. The Last One by Alexandra Oliva Vicki, Patricia, Mandy, Joni, Sean, Amy (6)

This is my first time. Let me know if I didn't do this right.

Here are some recent audiobooks I've been able to lay my hands on.

1. Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia

2. Rabbit Cake
Annie Hartnett

3. The Rose Garden
by Susanna Kearsley

4. The Gunslinger
by Stephen King

5. The Coffin Dancer
by Jeffery Deaver

6. The River of Kings
by Taylor Brown

I missed doing this:) Here are my May books:


1. The Citizens

Patricia, Ann


2. Brilliance

Veronica, Mandy, Sophie, Vicki, Kirsten


3. Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom: Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side

Dana, Peri, Amber, Donna, Amy


4. The Professor

Sean and Agnieszka


5. A Ton of Gold

Daisy


6. Inescapable

Joni, Romanticbookworm

Here are my books for May -

1. The Girl In The Ice by Robert Bryndza

Kirsten, Patricia, Dana, Romanticbookworm, Daisy, Sean

2. Dead Souls by Angela Marsons

Vicki, Veronica, Perri, Amber

3.The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid

Agnieszka

4. Kisscut by Karin Slaughter

Amy, Donna, Lisa, Joni

Sorry I'm so late this time :-)
Books, I want to read sometime soon:

3 Vicki, Amber, Joni
0
1 Donna
1 Ann
0
1 Romanticbookworm
8 Veronica, Amy, Patricia, Dana (Ca), Kirsten, Perri, Lisa, Mandy