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  • Wherenext
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    edited February 2022 #662

    For those who have read Craig Robertson's book with Narey and Winter as "good guys" then Mr.Robertson has brought out a new novel but in the rebranded name of C.S.Robertson called "The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill".

    I will ask our library to acquire it as I've always been a fan of his from the first book "Random".

  • mickysf
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    edited February 2022 #663

    An autobiography I know but a very good read! Bob Mortimer’s

    ‘And Away’

     

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #664

    WN, and any others that might be interested, 10 of the first 11 of Caro Ramsey's Anderson and Costello series are at 99p each on Kindle at the moment.

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2022 #665

    Cheers Nellie. I'll go on in a minute and pick a couple up. Have to check where I'm up to first with the series and what I've got stacked on Kindle already.

    I noticed The Puppet Show was on sale for £0.99 yesterday so those that know M.W.Craven's Poe and Bradshaw might want to snap it up.

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2022 #666

    Just reading Grace McGill. Boy, it's tough going as the subject matter is not the most pleasant but as the library ordered it especially due to my request the least I can do is finish it. Ironically I picked "Random" up in the NT book shop at Belton House the other day for a pittance.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #667

    I noticed The Puppet Show was on sale for £0.99 yesterday so those that know M.W.Craven's Poe and Bradshaw might want to snap it up.

    Already got it, but thanks for the heads up.

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,636 ✭
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    edited March 2022 #668

    I've read the first 7 of the series and was hoping for a follow-up to The Photographer but there doesn't seem to be one. I also have Watch Him Die to read, when I get round to it.

    Have just read The Snowdonia Killings, by Simon McCleaver, and wish I hadn't!! Must be one of the worst books I've ever read, and feel cheated at the price even though it was free!!😄

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2022 #669

    Have just read The Snowdonia Killings, by Simon McCleaver, and wish I hadn't!! Must be one of the worst books I've ever read, and feel cheated at the price even though it was free!!😄  

    🤣🤣

    Watch Him Die is almost like an 8th.book as Neary is involved. You'll enjoy it.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2022 #670

    I wondered why McCleaver's books were continually cheap/free on Amazon🤣🤣

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #671

    We have the second in the series, another freebie I think, but I'll give it a miss, plenty of other books to read before I become that desperate.

  • brue
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    edited March 2022 #672

    Just finished "White Nights" the second book in the Shetland crime series by Ann Cleaves. The books are an easy fast read, I normally never read crime fiction but these books are lightweight enough for me to enjoy without much effort. It was a good read. smile

    PS I buy the cheapest secondhand books I can find on Amazon or download to Kindle if going away.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #673

    Just spotted that Wild Fire, the last in Ann Cleave's Shetland series is at 99p on Kindle at the moment. By co-incidence I have just finish reading it.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #674

    Robert Goddard's Fine Art of Invisible Detection is another title to avoid, I wish I had!!frown

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2022 #675

    I enjoyed it. Just goes to show.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #676

    It was just too far fetched for me. As you say it just goes to show that tastes differ at times while at other times we both enjoy the same books.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2022 #677

    J D Kirk's Logan, no 10, A Head of the Game, is at 99p on Kindle today.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited April 2022 #678

    And book 11 'An Isolated Incident' is 99p today.

  • N1805
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    edited April 2022 #679

    Just finished Michael Connelly’s The Dark Hours from our library.  Like his writing style of the Bosch and  Ballard & Bosch series. Read a couple more Lin Anderson books featuring a forensic scientist in Glasgow working with the police in Scotland - also like the style and flow of the writing.  Continue to read historical mystery/detective type books. Find Michael Jecks series featuring a Knight living in North Devon during the 1320’s interesting.  Have also picked up and read odd current day detective books but as yet haven’t found an author to stick with.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2022 #680

    Yup, go it today.😄

    WN, Caihm Macdonald's fifth one in the Dublin Trilogy is at 99p today too. 👍

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2022 #681

    Have you tried Wiliam Shaw, Caro Ramsay, Denzil Meyrick, JD Kirk, Wes Markin, or Stuart McBride? All good series to be read in order.

  • Wherenext
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    edited April 2022 #682

    Cheers Nellie.👍

    N1805 - You might try this author if looking for someone newish. His Bunny trilogy books, of which this is number 5 😂, are very entertaining. Caimh Macdonald.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2022 #683

    He also writes a humerous superrnatural mystery series, well 2 so far, under the name of C K McDonnell. The second one, The Charming Man, is at 99p at the moment.

  • Wherenext
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    edited April 2022 #684

    N1805, I can't remember if you tried the John Pilkington series about the falconer, Thomas, or his small series about Marbeck set in 1600s. Might be up your street as they say.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2022 #685

    Forgot to add that the first in the series is The Stranger Times.

  • brue
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    edited April 2022 #686

    It must be some kind of release mechanism for me just now but I've just read the third Shetland detective book, Red Bones by Ann Cleeves. I think I enjoyed visiting Shetland so much that I'm doing some armchair travelling too. Also we saw them filming Shetland down at Sumburgh lighthouse and I'm hoping I'll found out which book or TV story it was in. Have to say I rarely read crime books or even a series of books but it's a fairly light escape with no nightmares. wink

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited April 2022 #687

    I remember your pic taken at Sumburgh, Brue, and I never managed to match the shoot to anything in the books. Perhaps it was a TV invention. The airport features several times but that’s as close as I got .

    I’ve finished the series now which is a bit sad.

  • brue
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    edited April 2022 #688

    I'm very late to these books, our friends on Orkney were hooked years ago and they would have moved to Shetland if they hadn't had other commitments. Which seems a bit strange to be drawn by a crime series....wink But what a clever idea to set the books there!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited April 2022 #689

    I think the books paint a realistic picture of Shetland life - apart from the murders🥴. Although it sounds quite arrogant for someone who's spent such a short time there to say that, they certainly conveyed to me a sense of the place as I found it.

    I'm still working my way through the Vera books.

  • N1805
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    edited April 2022 #690

    Nellie – Thanks for the author list.  I can recall reading a couple of Stuart McBride books last year.  Will look for those again in the library may try some of the other authors too. 

    Wherenext – I did read some of the John Pilkington Falconer stories and just looked up the Marbeck series which I will also look for in the library as they definitely interest me.

    I tend to get distracted in the library collecting requested books choosing others I like the look of having read the blurb inside the cover.  Some I enjoy others I have to force myself to continue to read and often they become more interesting.  A J R Ellis book The Body in the Dales was a bit like that for me – slow to get going but OK in the end.

    Collected a requested book Shadows Reel (C J Box) the latest by a favourite author of mine.  Also, a couple of other ad hoc books. 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2022 #691

    Me too, and her Vera series also. However there are some older ones to have a go at, and see how much she has improved over time. Hope the new series is up to scrstch, as I'm sure it will be.

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