April 2016: What are you reading?

Starting the new month while still reading My Soul to Take.

I am finishing up The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo and started World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters.

Off The Grid by C J Box. Nate Romanowski is back!!

I've started Make Me by Lee Child, number 20 in the Reacher series.

Currently reading Mon ami Maigret, by Georges Simenon.

Started Invisible City by Julia Dahl last night. So far, good :)

Just finished reading The Cellar by Minette Walters which was excellent!

Now I'm going to try to finish Bryant and May and the Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

I'm really enjoying my stint in Iceland so far. Finished My Soul to Take and just started Ashes to Dust.

I'm now reading Once a Thief by Kay Hooper.

>6 AnnieMod: I read that after meeting Julia last year. I liked it pretty well.

>10 Jim53: Absolutely agree. It is a gem of a book :)

Revisiting a favorite, Elegy for Eddie until my book buying budget catches up with my desire to catch up with the Maisie Dobbs series :)

Reading Rush of Blood (the only Billingham novel that I had not read yet) and so far it is a bit ho hum - it has some interesting moments but I hope it is not going where I think it is.

Finished Ashes to Dust and starting The Day is Dark.

I've started Enemy of Mine by Brad Taylor.

Still reading World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters. I finished The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo and started the next one, The Snowman. It's creepy, but I love that.

Am a ways into Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell, here final novel. I have to say my exasperation with the main character made me skim to see if it got better. It's really hard for me to believe that Carl would let Dermot's blackmail scheme go so far. I mean, yeah, Rendell writes the uber passive, non-confrontational British male very well, but this guy is far from believable. But what I picked up in my skimming will help me finish, albeit with probably more skimming. It's not Rendell's fault, but mine because I want to smack the guy a good one.

I just finished the 9th Montalbano book, The Paper Moon. This is such a good series!

>18 leslie.98: I love that series, too, and next up for me is also#10, August Heat.

I'm still enjoying the Bruno series. I'm reading The Crowded Grave

Finished The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. My least favorite of the series so far; however, I am on to the next book, Someone to Watch Over Me.

Still haven't finished the Maigret, because a library book with a looming deadline takes precedence: After the Crash, by Michel Bussi (translated by Sam Taylor from the French, Un avion sans elle).

Picked up Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben and was just going to read a page or two but now I'm 200 pages in. Really liking this one!

I'm experiencing withdrawal pains after binging on Deborah Crombie's Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series and finishing off the most recent one, To Dwell in Darkness today. Now what?!

>23 rosalita: Bruno: Chief of Police..... Well, you asked. :)

>24 Copperskye: Wait a minute! Didn't you already tag me with the Wexford series? One series warble at a time, Joanne!

>23 rosalita: Or Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series, or Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series or Ann Cleeves' (Vera Stanhope or Shetland series). Just in case Wexford loses his appeal ;)

Finished The Brutal Telling, by Louise Penny, and Hester and Harriet, by Hilary Spiers (the latter bordered on the Mystery genre) and have just started Booked to Die, by John Dunning.

>25 rosalita: Nope, not me. I'm all about Bruno at the moment. I haven't read Wexford. Yet.

>26 mvo62: All wonderful suggestions, too!!

>24 Copperskye:, >26 mvo62:

*sigh* This thread is dangerous for my TBR.

>26 mvo62: I'm all caught up on the Elly Griffiths series as well, sadly. But I will check out the other ones you recommend!

>28 Copperskye: Ah, perhaps it was Deborah, then. It's hard to keep all those book bullets straight!

Started on A Play of Piety, part another well-done medieval series featuring a Joliffe and a troupe of traveling players. Interesting historical tidbits about the profession in that time.

Just finished series by Louise Penny! Looking for American authors who are read a likes. Now reading Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Anyone familiar with Alan C. Bradley?

>32 Connie316: I have heard that there is a new book in the Gamache series coming out later this year. So excited!

>27 mvo62: I liked those Dunning books - enjoy!

Just finished Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben. Wow was that good. Went by really fast. This was my first book by him. My head is still spinning.

Just finished up The Passenger by Lisa Lutz.

I just finished Run the Risk by Scott Frost and have now started Butcher's Moon by Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark.

Fool Me Once by Colben was great as are all his books,

I started Redemption Road last night and read the first 90 pages or so. It features Hart's first female protagonist (this is his fifth book), a cop who is in trouble for excessive violence. She seems prone to developing healthy-looking but suspicious relationships with children who are crime victims. Can't wait to find out what her formative childhood experiences were.

> 32 Big fan of Alan Bradley. Flavia De Luce rocks.

Finished Someone to Watch Over Me and started The Silence of the Sea. Really enjoyed the former.

Am about 1/2 through Found Wanting by the marvelous Robert Goddard. College buddies, one can't really trust the other, one is dying, both trying to get possession of a briefcase that might prove that Anastasia lived through the massacre and the Russian Revolution. It's fab.

Finished A Breach of Security (a Simon Serrailler short story), by Susan Hill and have started The Studio Crime, by Ianthe Jerrold.

I'm also a big Deborah Crombie fan, and though not normally into espionage, I'd recommend the Daniel Silva series about art restorer/Israeli agent, Gabriel Allon. Not sure why I suggest this series but I enjoyed them all. I'd also recommend the Prey series by John Sandford, (if you don't mind some gruesome crimes.

I'm now reading Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor.

Just finished Tana French the likeness & looking forward to the next in the series.

>45 patwo: I discovered Tana French a couple of years ago. She has now vaulted to the top of my "must buy" list. I love her books.

Now reading Last Seen Wearing..., by Hillary Waugh. It's a good book for the train because it takes a bit of time to get fully absorbed in the story.

Started Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell for a book club.

Started The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton today. Off to a good start. I've got high hopes for this one.

Currently I'm reading Defending Jacob by William Landay. So far it has been a page-turner.

I read The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler, my first book by him. If you don't mind unrealistic scenarios, then this is a fun thriller...

I though Defending Jacob was a wonderful book. Haven't read anything else by the author, although I've been thinking about it.

I'm reading A Clean Kill in Tokyo by Barry Eisler. It was recommended for Lee Child fans somewhere in this group, so I immediately went looking. I discovered that Amazon Prime customers could borrow Eisler's first book in the series for free!

I'm fascinated by the bits of spy tradecraft he drops like breadcrumbs along the way, but I really don't care for his propensity for exact street naming -- too much Japanese language which I just skip over, but I suppose it does tend to add to the sense of place as I'm reading. I've been to Tokyo, found the layout of its train stations and large department stores as confusing as Eisler describes, but naming every street and alleyway that the protagonist walks on gets to be a bit much.

All together, I'm enjoying the book and will read more in the series! I think it was good that I started with the first in the series because Eisler is providing a *lot* of detail about the main character's background. Thank you to whomever made that suggestion to read him.

Just started Entry Island by Peter May. As a matter of fact, why aren't I on the deck reading now?

Reading Six Years by Harlan Coben.

I've started Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher, second in the Hal Challis series.

>56 Jestak:
That book is responsible for me reading all 6 in the series last year :)

I'm late to the party but I'm just starting The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. I hope it lives up to the hype. I just finished The Distant Hours by Kate Morton. It was described as a "gothic thriller" and it totally delivered.

Read a couple of crime novels while on vacation recently: A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell and The Murdered House by Pierre Magnan.

Suspenseful, but gory thriller for a day home sick in bed: The Killing Lessons by Saul Black

Finished The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and started Sidney chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie.

Finished both The Studio Crime, by Ianthe Jerrold and a delightful (but scarce) children's mystery, Who was old Willy? by Milward Kennedy.

I started Duck the Halls last night. Looks like typical Andrews, light and fun.

I'm now reading The Sudoku Murder by Shelley Freydont.

Stalled out on Hot Lead, Cold Iron so I picked up The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.

Finished The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton. Really good. It's coming out in about 3 weeks. I think it's already been optioned for a movie.

Next up is Hell's Gate by Bill Schutt. I have a couple others I'm still working on as well.

Finished Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie and started Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser.

Had a long weekend off work so got some reading done instead of housework and gardening! Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin. I've always loved his Rebus novels, but now that I've actually been to Edinburgh myself, I'm enjoying the stories even more when I recognize a place or street name. And I had a drink in the Oxford Bar when I was there!

Finished A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Book 2), by Peter Robinson and have just started the third in the series, A Necessary End.

I'm just finished with Finder by Greg Rucka.

Finished The Oxford Inheritance, which was interesting, and started Night of the Jaguar.

Finished Another Man's Moccasins in the Longmire series by Craig Johnson.

Death of a Dissident is waiting for me at the library. (Recommended by an LT member)

Guess I'll have to seek out Fool Me Once by Coben thanks to >34 tottman: and >37 dyarington: above!

Now reading Turning Angel by Greg Iles.

A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters, which was a mediocre Quick Read book and The Lake House by Kate Morton, which I loved.

I finished Jar City, which for some reason I had not gotten to before (despite the fact that I love this series!).

Finished Broken Harbour by Tana French and started on Blacklands by Belinda Bauer. Two pretty dark books back to back, something tells me I'm going to need something light-hearted next.