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  • moulesy
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    edited October 2020 #482

    It's still sitting on my Kindle, Nellie - Mrs M read it and enjoyed it.

    I can recommend the Charlie Parker book though. 

    Tomorrow I can, at last, pick up the final part of Hillary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy - I reserved it before the lockdown, think I was about number 80 in the queue and now it's waiting for me! smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited October 2020 #483

    M, I'll no doubt get the Charlie Parker book sometime when our daughter drops it off, so with a little bit of luck it will be waiting at home when we finally get there.

    Have completed the H.M. Trilogy and enjoyed them thoroughly. The last ones a time so hope your close to the car to carry it home when you pick it up!wink

  • JayOutdoors
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    edited October 2020 #484

    Also enjoyed the HM trilogy.

     I will be interested to see how Lee Child’s character ‘Reacher’ evolves after watching yesterday morning’s TV chat with him and his brother Andrew Grant whom he is collaborating with as it was said his brother is to take over writing Reacher books completely in a few years.

    I've not read any of  Andrew Grant's books but may try one sometime.

     

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited October 2020 #485

    At present enjoying reading  "The Dentist" by Tim Sullivan, the first of his DS Cross series. It is based around Bristol and DS Cross has Aspberger's Syndrome which results in some humorous conversations.

  • Wherenext
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    edited October 2020 #486

    In between reading my history book I'm keeping my murder count up by reading Craig Robertson's "Watch Him Die". The title sort of gives it away.sealed

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2020 #487

    A quick heads up....JD Kirk's A Litter of Bones is  FREE on Kindle till Sunday. It is the first in the series, so well worth downloading.

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2020 #488

    Also Peter May's "Lewis" trilogy - all 3 books for 99p if you haven't already read them! smile

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2020 #489

    Cheers for the heads up.

    Have also bought Tana French's first book in her Dublin series for £0.99 In The Woods.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2020 #490

    That too is a good read.

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2020 #491

    She has a new book out. A stand alone, The Searcher. Keep an eye out for when it drops in price.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2020 #492

    I've just seen that, on a link our daughter sent me, from Dead Good which also includes a list of the best 100 crime novels of all time, chosen by it's readers.

    OH spotted that the 5th in the JD Kirk series, The Last Bloody Straw, is 99p today.laughing

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2020 #493

    Finally got my hands on Fair Warning by Michael Connelly after waiting months for the library to allocate it to me. Don't know what's taken them so long.smile

    Good job that they have disposed of their normal 3 week period as I've got 4 other books to read before it.

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2020 #494

    How about that? I just picked that up myself along with Peter James's latest Roy Grace instalment. I've also got the latest from Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby and by some sort of glitch in the reservation system they've been renewed till. .. er ... the 1st of March 2021 so I've got a bit of time with them yet! wink

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2020 #495

    We've just been told to bring them back whenever we want to or can.

    I like Roddy Doyle but will have to put him on the back burner. If you read it, M, in the next 4 weeks let me have a review.laughing

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2020 #496

    For anyone who likes their thrillers with a bit of a bite, and haven't read any of the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, the first in the series, Every Read Thing, is available on Kindle for 99p today. A great although dark series.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #497

    This month's kindle cheapies include both the 5th and the 7th of JD Kirk's DCI Logan series at 99p each.

  • brue
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    edited December 2020 #498

    I was listening to Ian Rankin on the Radio 4 Saturday Live morning show, talking about moving Jack Reacher to Caithness, somewhere between Dounreay and the Castle of Mey. Think I might attempt to read a book set up there to see if the area springs to life. 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #499

    You're a little mixed up there brue, I think. Ian Rankin's character is John Rebus, and Jack Reacher is a character written about by Lee Childs.....unless of course Rankin and Childs are one names for the same person!laughing

    Should you like a detective series base around the North of Scotland you could do a lot worse than that written by JD Kirk about DCI Logan.

  • brue
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    edited December 2020 #500

    You'll have to forgive me on that one Nellie, on the programme Rankin was talking about Rebus but the conversation got confusing then I read later that Rebus was a Lee Child's fan....I was interested in the setting as a relative lives off the beaten track in that area who's a bit of a mystery too! Perhaps I'd better read the book,  A Song For The Dark Times. laughinglaughing

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited December 2020 #501

    The Ann Cleeves Shetland book Thin Air is currently on Amazon at 99p for the Kindle version.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thin-Air-Shetland-Book-6-ebook/dp/B00JPCCJEO/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_img_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3VTZTHPT1XDHX6JT9Z6E

     

    Also, Peter Robinson's DCI Banks Many Rivers to Cross at 99p

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Many-Rivers-Cross-Banks-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07HFCM8BB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19O4KD9VTLGNY&dchild=1&keywords=many+rivers+to+cross+peter+robinson&qid=1607262867&s=digital-text&sprefix=Many+rivers%2Cdigital-text%2C169&sr=1-1

     

     

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #502

    Couldn't put it on hold any longer.laughing

    I did find the main character harder to like than his normal ones, like Bosch but his writing is as usual exemplary and he does move his storylines along with the times.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #503

    For fans of Rachel Joyce....her latest novel, Miss Benson's Beetle is available today on Kindle for 99p.

     

     

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #504

    Thanks to a tip off from Nellie I went onto Kindle 12 Days of Christmas deals tonight.

    There's a prequel by Mark Billingham of Tom Thorne and a Caimh McDonnell stand alone amongst others.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #505

    We missed the Ciamh McDonnell one,so thanks, but can't find the MB one.....giza clue!!😁

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #506

    All I can say is that it's in the first 100. I gave up after that! Well, until tomorrow.

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #507

    Nellie - It's called Cry Baby. Found in the first 20 books just after LJ Ross's Seven Bridges.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #508

    Cheers.😁

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #509

    WN an extra thanks from OH, as I went to look at LJ Ross and found Longstone at 99p, which nearly completes the set, just last 2 to wait for now!!wink

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #510

    Went back in to finish off today and found Martin Cruz Smith's latest book The Siberian Dilemma on sale for £0.99. I think Moulesy mentioned reading it a while back and I've been keeping an eye out for it on and off since.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #511

    The list seems to be changing day by day, so perhaps it's worth going to it regularly.

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