Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

This is the thread to nominate a book for Book of the month for October 2017. Please make sure you read the rules before posting:

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Please post a Goodreads link to your nominated book!! You do that by selecting "add book/author" above your comment and entering the book. That way it comes as either a cover or a highlighted link in your comment. Thanks


Nominations will run until the 16th of September 2017 with voting following via a poll.

The Blackhouse by Peter May. A grim novel of remembrance afflicting the present, set on the Isle of Lewis. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I don't think we'v ever read Ellis Peters, so how about the first of the Brother Cadfael books, A Morbid Taste for Bones?

Murder Games by James Patterson

I'm in for murder games.

The Fourth Monkey

4th monkey is thirded by me.

David wrote: "The Blackhouse by Peter May. A grim novel of remembrance afflicting the present, set on the Isle of Lewis. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

Great book!

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper. Amazing debut, many great GR reviews!

Y is for Yesterday
How about the latest in Sue Grafton's ABC series?

White Bones by Graham Masterton

Travis wrote: "David wrote: "The Blackhouse by Peter May. A grim novel of remembrance afflicting the present, set on the Isle of Lewis. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

Great book! "

Have to agree with both David and Travis. A very good read. Would make an excellent selection.

Lisa wrote: "Y is for Yesterday
How about the latest in Sue Grafton's ABC series?"

That sounds good, but I just read U Is for Undertow

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger.

Perfidia by James Elroy

Take One with You by Oak Anderson

MURDER GOES VIRAL!

Charlie and Sarah, two disaffected teens dealing with depression, meet in an online chatroom and soon hatch a plan to bring meaning to their lives by encouraging other despondent individuals to help eradicate the "scum of society", such as pedophiles and rapists who have escaped justice. Anyone determined to commit suicide is urged to first kill someone who "got away with it" before taking their own life. Why not, they ask, "take one with you?"

The idea goes viral and things rapidly spiral out of control. As they develop feelings for each other, their worldwide followers begin to enact a very different version of their idea, perverting its original intent and threatening the thin line between civil society and criminal anarchy. Just as they find the hope of happiness together, Charlie and Sarah must deal with the monster they've created, a global epidemic of murder-suicide that threatens the very core of their humanity.

Take One With You is a unique crime thriller/millennial love story that poses the question: If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, would you kill someone tonight? Someone who had done something terrible. Someone who deserved to die. If so, who would it be? If you wouldn't go that far, what about your neighbor? Your friend? Your enemy? Who draws the line? Who decides who lives and who dies? And what if we all began to take justice into our own hands?

The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston

In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made-an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New York's notorious Five Points neighborhood in the 1880s, bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ignite a new series of horrifyingly similar killings, panic overtakes New York City. Now, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to protect themselves from a vicious killer...before they become the next victims.

I second Ellis Peters.

I will nominate a lighter, but delightful, read Design for Dying, featuring department store sales clerk Lillian Frost teaming up with costume designer Edith Head in 1927 Hollywood to solve the murder of a starlet.

The Blackhouse by Peter May reading now

I second Iron Lake

Britney...love your icon!

Sheila wrote: "The Blackhouse by Peter May reading now"

This has already been nominated. You can nominate another book if you like or vote for this one when it comes up to the voting round

Just so people know, seconding books has absolutely no impact on the books being chosen. All nominated books will come up for the vote as long as they meet the criteria

Please continue to post the books as links, that way it's easier for me to find the right books. There are many books with the same title.

These suggestions sound interesting! I can't wait to vote!

I nominate The Force by Don Winslow

The Lazarus Succession by Ken Fry

(view spoiler)[ The Lazarus Succession takes readers to the ancient scene of Christ's greatest miracle, to medieval Spain, and back to modern-day Europe. In typical Ken Fry style, nothing is as it seems and a surprise awaits at every turn of the page.

According to legend, Annas Zevi, an artist who witnessed the raising of Lazarus, was told by Christ to paint what he saw. Over the centuries, his completed works has vanished, along with every other painting depicting Lazarus' resurrection. They were rumoured to be sacred icons with miraculous powers.

International Art Recovery Experts, Broderick Ladro and Ulla Stuart, are hired by a disgraced High Court judge, Sir Maxwell Throgmorton, to locate a long lost medieval painting by Spanish artist Francisco Cortez. Like Zevi, his work is said to be divinely inspired.

Throgmorton's client, a wealthy Spanish Condesa, is terminally ill and the icon is her last hope. She will pay and do whatever it takes to find the missing work of Cortez.
Unbeknown to the Condesa, Throgmorton seeks to make a vast personal fortune from the discovery of the paintings, and use it to reclaim his place in society.

Ladro and Stuart learns of Throgmorton's deceit and attempts to thwart his plans. As they delve deeper into the mystery of the missing Cortez painting, they discover a secret that changes their lives forever.

Just as it changed the lives of everyone it touched across the centuries. (hide spoiler)]

NOMINATIONS CLOSED