Best reads - Club Together Book Club?
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!😄
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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!!😄
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Watch Him Die is almost like an 8th.book as Neary is involved. You'll enjoy it.
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I wondered why McCleaver's books were continually cheap/free on Amazon🤣🤣
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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.
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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.
PS I buy the cheapest secondhand books I can find on Amazon or download to Kindle if going away.
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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.
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Robert Goddard's Fine Art of Invisible Detection is another title to avoid, I wish I had!!
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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.
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J D Kirk's Logan, no 10, A Head of the Game, is at 99p on Kindle today.
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And book 11 'An Isolated Incident' is 99p today.
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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.
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Yup, go it today.😄
WN, Caihm Macdonald's fifth one in the Dublin Trilogy is at 99p today too. 👍
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Have you tried Wiliam Shaw, Caro Ramsay, Denzil Meyrick, JD Kirk, Wes Markin, or Stuart McBride? All good series to be read in order.
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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.
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Forgot to add that the first in the series is The Stranger Times.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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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