Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

Kills Well with Others . Deanna Raybourn. Read by Jane Oppenheimer and Christina Delaine. 4/5

I enjoyed this sequel to Killers of a Certain Age. After a year of retirement, the gang are called back to work by the head of their former agency, The Museum. Mayhem ensues. It’s fun following the various members of the crew as they plot and execute (pun intended) their assignments and display their particular murderous skills. Side characters add some depth to the assassins.

Don't Let Him In. Lisa Jewell. 5/5.

Lisa Jewell is my new favorite domestic thriller writer, and that’s saying something as it is not my favorite genre. I had the pleasure of seeing her at Sherry's bookstore. Nina is seeing a man who appears to be perfect, but her daughter Ash finds him a little too slick and polished, so without telling her mother starts to look into his past. What she (and we) learn is more twisted than you could imagine, setting them on a collision course. Deliciously suspenseful, a CPD (can’t put it down) book.

Marble Hall Murders. Anthony Horowitz. Read by Leslie Manville, Tim McMullen. 5/5

This is the third in the Susan Reyland series. Susan is a book editor who returns to London from Greece and reluctantly accepts a new assign that she has misgivings about for reasons too complicated to note here. It of course leads to a murder...or two. Horowitz is a wonderful plotter and deftly deals with parallel stories and time periods. Leslie Manville plays Susan Reyland in the PBS series and of course knocks it out of the park with her narration.

Never Flinch. Stephen King. Narrated by Jesse Mueller and Stephen King. 4/5

Holly Gibney returns and when she takes on a bodyguard job protecting a women’s rights activist, she gets pulled into not one but two cases, one involving a stalker and another a murderer with a devious scheme that threatens them both. Stephen King does it again!

Worst Case Scenario . T.J. Newman. 4/5

When a pilot suffers a heart attack and crashes his plane full of passengers into a nuclear power plant, a dangerous crisis develops. I don’t know about the science, but the implications of the crash and the actions of the employees in the plant and the members of the surrounding town created a tense drama that kept me engaged right up to the end.

Carol - a very nice August for you! I must agree about Lisa Jewell - her books are now must read for me and this latest Don't Let Him In was stellar. I also loved Never Flinch and need to get to the T. J. Newman - I have the print version waiting for me.

nice month, carol.

Oh I wish we had done Don't Let Him In as a group read. It was soooooo good. This was a good month of reading!

Wow. Stellar month!

Thanks all. I fear September will not be as stellar, as most of my print reading is of The Hallmarked Man, and I'm still only about 1/3 done!!!