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  • moulesy
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    edited April 2020 #422

    I've just finished the first book in the "Dark Yorkshire" series by J M Dalgleish. Another detective series, this one set in and around York. I've been trying to avoid starting yet another series, because at some point they all seem to gel into one, but since we met in York I thought I'd give it a go. And very good it is too - what's better, the box set of books 1 to 3 was on Kindle for 99p!

    I am looking forward to reading Hillary Mantel's final Cromwell book, TtDA - when our library closed I was number 31 in the queue for it! wink

    Something a bit different next - a book called "The Cellist of Sarajevo" - picked it up for nothing in a meighbour's clear out. Looks very interesting. smile

  • onnilucky
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    edited April 2020 #423

    Not that I can imagine anyone else reading this but "Practical Transformer Handbook" has been a great book during lockdown. I have now rebuilt an H.T.Coil and my BSA bantam now runs, which it hasn't since December 1962. Now I need " how to make an old bike roadworthy"

  • moulesy
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    edited April 2020 #424

    That sounds like the sort of publication they'd use for the missing words round on Have I Got News For You! wink

    Good luck with sorting the bike out. smile

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited April 2020 #425

    I finished the very same Dark Yorkshire book last night, M. There’s a coincidence. Mine was free on Prime Reading. Now I’ll wait for the others to be on offer.

    Another series I started recently is David Blake's DI Tanner stories set on the Norfolk Broads. It's great recognising the places featured.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2020 #426

     J M Dalgleish has also a series based in Norfolk, starting with One Lost Soul,  and I've just finished reading that one. Most enjoyable, as good as the York ones, of which I've read the first 4.

    I do like a series set around an area that I'm familiar with. I've just started a set of 4 by Roy Chester which is centred somewhere in Lincolnshire I think but the locations are fictitious so it's hard picturing the places.

     

     

     

     

     

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited April 2020 #427

    I noticed that, Nellie. Dalgleish is new to me and I’ll get to the other books eventually.🙂

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited April 2020 #428

    I suspect my OH would read that from cover to cover!😁

    Yesterday’s quick read was a great little Shire pamphlet, all about Britain’s Roman roads. We must have had it decades, as a leave request for SY Fire Service, dated 1990 was in it as a bookmark!😂

    I turned to OH, and said Oo, let’s visit Hadrians Wall next, and then reality kicked in.....we ain’t going nowhere for a while yet☹️

    I will look up those York detective novels, sound our cup of tea👍

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited April 2020 #429

    Decided to ditch the Roy Chester series after the first one, although I will go back to it again no doubt, and instead have started on the first of a new series, based around Edinburgh, by a seasoned writer, Ed James, and you can certainly tell the difference compared to RC. The book's Missing and features PC Craig Hunter.

  • brue
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    edited May 2020 #430

    Just read "Happy Old Me" by Hunter Davies, another of his memoir type books now catching up with himself at 82 years of age plus, coping with life on his own. A good quick read, entertaining as usual, forgetful too, I suppose we're all allowed that as we get older. smile

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2020 #431

    I’ve been reading a series by Rebecca Tope - lightish mysteries based in the Lake District. Very flimsy - I’m only reading them as I know the places. And the endings are rushed and cobbled together. I’m glad I didn’t spend money on them - all borrowed from the library via BorrowBox. 

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #432

    The book's Missing and features PC Craig Hunter.

    Decided that as I'm saving all those CLs fees I might as well splash out on this so hope I haven't wasted my £0.99. Always prefer to start at book 1. If I like his style of writing I'll explore his other works.

    Ta for that Nellie.

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #433

    Borrow Box has really come in handy for me during this lockdown. Just halfway through a spy story from the Gorbachev era and have one that is due in on 10th.May. 

  • thebells
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    edited May 2020 #434

    I'm re-reading my Phil Rickman collection. Everything from the Merrily Watkins to John Dee to the Will Kingdom novels ( my personal faves featuring Bobby Maiden and Holy Grayle but only 2 of them😢). Don't know if I should be concerned that I can't remember what happens in most of them but at least I don't have to spend any money on new stuff........😂

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #435

    We've got them all too, just waiting for the next in the Merrily series. However it could be a long wait as Phil has been very poorly, from what I think was a heart attack. Do you do Facebook, as there's a Phil Rickman Appreciation Society (PRAS) group on there, and his own web site too of course.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #436

     1st May....monthly deal day on Kindle....We've ended up with a few that we've been waiting for, including Denzil Meyrick, Rachel Abbott, M W Craven, and the start of a new series by Peter May, but to name a few!!

  • thebells
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    edited May 2020 #437

    I'm not on Facebook but I saw something recently online saying he'd had "an elf stroke", which I took to be a stroke😢

    So sad, he's one of my favourite authors and he actually replied to an email I sent him once asking if there would be any more "Bobby Maiden" books (he said his publishers "preferred" him to keep doing Merrily but encouraged me to place Amazon reviews for Will Kingdom to show there was demand:which I did😊), I was amazed and have saved his reply for posterity!

     

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #438

    Try his web site then, there are some grand things on it. I'm waiting to wear my Gomer T-Shirt.wink

  • thebells
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    edited May 2020 #439

    I've been dithering about ordering one but you've convinced me! We'll recognise each other at a CL site someday😂

  • moulesy
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    edited May 2020 #440

    Just spotted that Amazon have loads of the Roy Grace series by Peter May, set around Brighton, on sale for 99p each today. A good series for anyone liking well written detective stories. smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #441

    Think you mean Peter James, M!! Yet another series of which we've all but the latest. Well written and I think extra interesting for anyone who's familiar with the area.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2020 #442

    I’ve just found an Ann Cleeves Shetland book for 99p - White Nights.

  • moulesy
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    edited May 2020 #443

    That's the bloke!  smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #444

    If you spot  Blue Lightning at that price give me a yell please. It's the only one in her Shetland series I've not got.

     

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2020 #445

    Will do. I’ve noticed her books are rarely on offer.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #446

    Cheers, I've managed to get a few, but it's only on the odd occasion that they are at 99p.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #447

    The second in the Norfolk series by J M Dalgliesh, Bury your Past, is at 99p today on Kindle.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2020 #448

    Cheers, Nellie. I'll give it a go.

  • thebells
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    edited May 2020 #449

    A work colleague lives over the road from Ann Cleeves and was chatting to her at their VE day street party (socially distanced of course) and she has got me a signed copy of Cold Earth !!😁

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #450

    It just so happens that I've just finished one of her books,Silent Voices. I'm only short of a few of her earlier ones, and one from her Shetland series, Blue Lightning.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2020 #451

    A heads up for L J Ross fans, in this month's deals on Kindle both The Moor and Broadlands are 99p. And especially for WM so is Ciamh McDonnell's The Final Game.

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