Best reads - Club Together Book Club?
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I still have that pleasure to come. At the moment I am reading Black Hearts, the 4th in the Skelf's series by Doug Johnstone.
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Isles of Scilly are simply stunning! Just don’t get on that damn boat (Scillonian) if you ever decide to go. Helicopter ride is superb👍😁
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There are a number of L J Ross's DCI Ryan's NorthEast series for sale at 99p at the moment on Kindle's monthly deals for Ju!y, including the latest, Lady's Well.
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Already got it last week, thought that I mentioned off on here, but obviously not!
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Picked up a brand new never been read before, book from the library yesterday.
Caro Ramsays' In Her Blood. The second in a new series from her featuring DCI Christine Caplan. First one was good. Some might have read her Anderson and Costello series.
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The first 3 of the DCI Bone series, by TG Reid are on offer as a collection for 99p for the next few days on the Bookbub website. It is currently the top collection on Amazon at the moment. Definitely worth getting.
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Having finally paid a visit to Hardwick Hall this year and being impressed by the pile of Elizabethan "bling" I got hold of a secondhand copy of "Bess of Hardwick" by Mary Lovell. This booked looked like a heavy weight tome, but Bess with her four husbands and money making exploits and friendship with QE1 was a good entertaining read. Something like Keeping Up with The Kardashians it was a page turner of ambitions, disasters and shrewd, impressive dealings.
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One for the Ages, the 16th in the DCI Logan series, by J.D.Kirk, is at 99p on Kindle at the moment.
Also the audio version of the first of the series, A Litter of Bones, can be listen to using this link. At least I am listening to it using this link.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwO5rrlkeRc
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A promotional post -
If you want a beautiful thought provoking book please consider our friend Helen Rebanks. You may have alreay read her husband James's books - but this is wonderful!
Published by Faber & Faber on 31st August and available from all good independant bookshops (and Amazon of course). My copy arrived on Saturday and I'm looking forward to carefully opening the pages (it looks too good to open - maybe I should have bought two, one to keep and one to read). Lots of interviews etc out there.
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The second in the series of Bunny McGarry Stateside, "I have Sinned", by Ciahm McDonnell is at 99p at the moment on Kindle.
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I have just finished reading the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard. It is a 5 book set about an extended family and their lives during WWII and how their lives changed. A wonderful and fascinating read. I might try reading some of her other books now
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Two recommendations from me.
I've just finished Christy Lefteri's " The Book of Fire". Based on her experiences living with families who lost everything in forest fires in Greece it really takes you inside their lifes and the tragic effects those events have. A very thought-provoking read and very relevant given recent events. (I can also recommend her earlier book " The Beekeeper of Aleppo.)
And, on a lighter note, one of my favourite authors, Kate Atkinson's latest "Shrines of Gaiety" - an Agatha Christie type mystery based in London between the wars with a mixture of characters, some very likeable, others definitely not so!
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I was discussing the real meaning of the words of Rule Brittania and why it was written with my cousin and she recommened 'The Seal Woman's Gift' by Sally Magnusson. It is about the Muslim slave traders who not only traded British sailors but got as far as Iceland so I might give that a go as it is a period of history that I know little about.
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I was just about to post that too, WN, as I didn't know if you had spotted it. It is the 4th in the Mickey Haller (The Lincoln Lawyer) series.
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Just a heads up for anyone who likes a good detective novel, the first of T G Reid's DCI Bone series, Dark is the Grave, is free on kindle at the moment, but not for long, so hurry!!
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Thanks for that NTH - I'll have a look. Don't know if it's been mentioned on here before - but have you read the DCI Harry Grimm series by David Gatward? Set in Hawes and the surrounding Dales with lots of lovely detail about the area - it's full of humour (most of it dark!) and so typical of what policing used to be like. The only thing I can't get my head round is that there is no way would a DCI be in charge of such a small team of PCs, PCSOs, a DS and a couple of DIs in a place as small as Hawes - but, hey ho, the stories are great
Just got the latest novel on Kindle Unlimited - so that's the series of 17 I will have got through!0 -
As I have mentioned before I don't read much in the way of fiction and call me shallow if you like but I have rather enjoy Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club books. I have just finished his latest, book four, in the Murder Club series The Last Devil to Die. For those that don't know the "Murder Club" consists of a group of, probably reasonably well off, pensioners, who live in one of those gated retirement villages with amenities. They come from all walks of life so have a wide ranging knowledge of things. Their hobby is solving crimes. It's all a bit implausible but quite entertaining and Richard Osman has a very easy style. The latest book is sad in some ways as it deals with dementia which I suspect is ever present in such communities. They solve their crime, or should that be crimes and it sort of has a happyish ending. Apparently this will be the last of the Murder Club books for a while as he is changing tack for his next book although he says the Club will be back.
David
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Richard, the free offer has finished, but there is a collection of the first 3 books on Kindle for £1:79, so still a bargain price. Should you choose to sign up for his web site for updates etc you can also get a free short story, "What Lies Beneath".
I have not read any of the DCI Harry Grimm series, and as I am a cheap skate I will just have to keep my open for them should any be on offer at 99p!😆
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Don't blame you being a cheapskate - I wouldn't pay £3.99 for them either. Didn't realise that's how much they were until I just had another look - but that's where I'm quids in with Kindle Unlimited
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I too love Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club books David. I think they are very well written and a good read. I have read all 4 of them and have now passed them on to my daughter who is also enjoying them. I look forward to seeing what his next book is about.
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Millie
Glad I am not alone. Even Margaret is not keen on them preferring a more gritty detective story. I think there was a bit of a clue about what might be next in the Acknowledgement section at the back of the book, whether that's him just joshing I don't know.
David
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Richard, I never seem to have time to get a single book read in a week, although I must admit that I am a slow reader. I also tend to go back and read the earlier ones in a series, and too I have a few I like returning to at least once a year.
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I have just forced myself to finish reading (by skipping great chunks) "The Fear Index" by Robert Harris. I found it very disturbing and unsettling. I knew it would be difficult to get into - complicated stuff about financial markets, bur persevered as I usually like Robert Harris.
So, just a warning, it's a very disturbing (and in parts nasty) story.
What next for me? Something light a fluffy I think!
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I read "Awakening" by Sharon Bolton a couple of years ago and have just noticed it's currently £0.99 on Amazon kindle. It was quite a good read from what I remember and I like Ms.Bolton as a writer.
If snakes in a book upsets you then don't buy it.
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I recently discovered Rhys Dylan's DCI Evan Warlow books. (Somebody here may have recommended them.) They are set around Carmarthenshire and I’m hooked.
Book 8 - A Body of Water is currently available on Amazon for 99p.
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