Best reads - Club Together Book Club?
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Picked up a copy of, ‘The Heron’s call’ by Anne Cleaves. She was brought up locally in Devon and her latest books are based here. Our little village appears on the map at the front of the book and the ‘murder’ happened just up the road. It’s quite strange when she includes very local places to us. Some places are fictitious though. Bet there will be a few holidaymakers looking for somewhere that doesn’t exist in the summer.
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That's what I like about the more modern writers, that they use actual locations instead of fictitious ones, places one actually know and if not already visited places to go to in the future.
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I have just completed a couple of rather different mystery/thriller/detective novels, both of which I can recommend; Rubber Necker by Belinda Bauer and The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by C.S.Robertson.
Have just started a series which again looks to be out ordinary, The Barbershop 7 (The Barney Thompson series) by Douglas Lindsay.
For anyone who is a fan of Wes Markin the 5 five books in his Jake Petterman series are all at 99p each for the next 4 days on kindle.
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Just finished reading a book by Brian Freeman called the The Deep Deep Snow.
A one off but I have read a couple of his Jonathan Stride series so I bought this on Kindle when it was £0.99. Gone up now but keep an eye out for it if it returns to that price. A well written fleshed out book.
The Stride series is also good and I will try to get hold of the ones I'm missing from my library when I get back to the UK.
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Rapidly becoming a favourite author of mine is Holly Watt. I'm in the middle of the third instalment of her Casey Benedict series. She's an investigative journalist, researching some very dark topics. A well written series of books, intriguing to know how close to fact her topics are.
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After reading Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer and enjoyed it, I have now just purchased The Shut Eye by her.
Today on FB there was an ad for TG Reid's What Lies Beneath, the 3rd in the DCI Bone series, for 99p. As I have the first two I thought I'd get it, but going onto Amazon it was listed at £2:99. So back to FB and made comment asking what was going on. Got a response from the author thanking me and to say that the error had been corrected, so I did eventually get it for 99p. Just goes to show that one doesn't just have to accept what one sees, and that those who place their products on FB also read the post concerning their products.
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Had an enjoyable few nights (not often I can say that these days
) reading Michael Connelly and his latest Ballard and Bosch book, The Dark Hours.Slow and methodical to get going and set the scene but a hurry up from mid book. Recommended as usual.
These characters don't seem to get stale the same way that Reacher books do. Funnily enough the MiL bought the latest Reacher book in Tesco whilst we were away so I'll read it but I haven't bothered to order it from the library.
Must see if I can get my hands on that Nixon book I mentioned a few weeks ago.
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You shouldn't have got the book, Nellie, just the cheeses
Went back into my Kindle & probably made a bad, bad mistake because I've started re-reading the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant from volume 1 -- I'll let you know how I've got on about New year !!
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I notice that Kindle have "First in Series" books on sale, most at £0.99.
If you interested in a crime novel set in Stalin's Russia (not the most enticing of "come and buy me" I realise) then buy Sam Eastland's "Eye of the Red Tsar". His "detective" if you can call him that makes for a good read.
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For fans of JD Kirk, his DCI Logan book 12 "Colder Than The Grave" is currently available on Amazon for 99p.
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I've just finished the Ann Cleeves "Shetland" series. I know crime fiction is popular on here and these are good reads although I was quite glad to see Jimmy Perez sail off into the sunset!
Wish me luck, I'm now about to read an Iain Rankin book.
All paperbacks bought second hand on line and passed on to our local fund raising book room for further use.
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If you like crime novels, try a Peter Robinson DCI Banks book, Brue. Again, they’re better than the TV series and not so 'deep' as the Ian Rankin Rebus stories.
Another series you might like is Damien Boyd’s Nick Dixon tales. Some of them are on Amazon for £1 at present. They are set around the Hurn Lane area😀
Like most series, it’s good to read all these in order if you can.
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I collect them when they’re on offer and then queue them up and read them in order, WN. 😀
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'Broadland', the first in the series, is currently free as a Kindle book to Amazon Prime members.
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Reading Barbara Erskine’s latest book The Dream Weavers. I’m actually reading it rather slowly, don’t want to finish it too soon as I know I might have to wait a while for her next one. I have read all of her books, just love them, but they do scare me a bit.
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Well thanks to TWs detective series recommendations (and I think Nellie's too in the dim and distant past) I sent off for a bargain secondhand Damien Boyd "As the crow flies."
Gleefully opening my purchase I found it contained a book on modern ethics. Obviously Boris Johnson has got my detective book and I have his!!
However I returned the book and am now in receipt of the book I wanted and I presume BJ would be happy with the detective story, who cares about ethics I hear him say....
Anyway I have finally got my holiday read.
Ps true story except the BJ bit....
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😂😂😂😂😂
Enjoy!
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The cottage we are in this week has an extensive library of books and DVDs and Mrs.WN has been reading and therefore recommending one of the books that caught her eye. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows".
Not new but she thought that it might even suit me.
Edit - Forgot to mention that "The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly" is on Amazon for £0.99 at the moment. A Ballard and Bosch book. I actually read this from the library just 3 weeks ago.
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DEBSC there is a Barbara Erskine book, Kingdom of Shadows, on sale at this moment on Amazon for £0.99.
I've just finished reading King Richard by Michael Dobbs about the machinations that went on in the White House as the scandal of Watergate and the unknown tapes unfolded. It helped that I am interested in the subject matter and also knew who the protagonists were but it was still fascinating and totally relevant in many ways to the current political scene, both here and across the pond.
I could do with a really good murder book next! Fortunately I have a J.D.Kirk to get to grips with.
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Having just read "Charles & Camilla" by Gyles Brandreth I felt murderous WN!
A history romp at the start, all a bit unedifying and getting increasingly so as the present day story progressed. I read a review that stated it was a "heartwarming tale" don't believe a word of it, it isn't! 0 -
Do you remember Cabbage Patch Dolls Brue? Well I somehow felt a compulsion to punch them in the face. Unusual for me. Fortunately I didn't know anyone with a child who had one. Would have been a most embarrassing situation for me.
Gyles Brandreth is a human Cabbage Patch Doll and he has the same effect on me!
Didn't help that for a number of years he was MP in nearby Chester so always popping up in the news.
I assume your "review" refers to the subject matter rather than the messenger. Still, I wouldn't be able to read it without thinking of those r***y dolls.
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Noticed a new David Baldacci book in Smiths window The 6:20 Man so requested it at library which says it is on order. Been reading some Michael Jecks and Paul Doherty (historical fiction) and Rachel McLean’s Zoe Finch series as had no luck getting her Dorset Crime series books from Library – popular series, I guess. Still enjoying reading Kate Ellis books featuring Wesley Peterson and Lin Anderson’s featuring Rhona MacLeod. Read a few other books and have added Gytha Lodge books to my list of maybe future reads after reading Lie Beside Me featuring DCI Jonah Sheens.. Enjoy your summer reading
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Mrs WN must have read most of Paul Doherty's output, N1805. Bit gruesome in places but then again the period he writes about was.
Just finishing a Robert Goddard book, This is the Night they come for you". Well written as usual and a splendid one off. Helps if you know a little of the relationship between France and Algeria.
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Just a quick notification, the first of Caro Ramsey's Anderson and Costello series, based in Glasgow, Absolution, is free for today only on Kindle. I can thoroughly recommend the whole series.
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I noticed that yesterday as well Nellie,
M W Craven's The Botanist is on for £0.99 on Amazon Kindle today, his latest outing for Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw. I see he has a new character coming out next year in a book titled "Fearless". Keep an eye out for it.
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