April, 2022 ~ What are you reading?

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April, 2022 ~ What are you reading?

1seitherin
Apr. 2, 2022, 1:31 pm

Getting the new month started.

2rabbitprincess
Apr. 2, 2022, 6:21 pm

Currently in crime for me is Bloody January, by Alan Parks.

3Bookmarque
Apr. 3, 2022, 12:04 pm

Just started Diablo Mesa the third in the Nora Kelly/Corrie Swanson series of quasi-FBI procedural thrillers. So far, so good.

4bobbyl
Apr. 3, 2022, 12:35 pm

Just started State of Terror from Hilary Clinton & Louise Penny. Wasn't sure about this, but Louise Penny is such a good writer. So far really enjoying.

5seitherin
Apr. 3, 2022, 2:45 pm

6Jim53
Apr. 12, 2022, 9:51 pm

>4 bobbyl: I liked that one a lot.

I just read When the Stars Go Dark, a slightly melodramatic but well done thriller.

7rabbitprincess
Apr. 13, 2022, 6:29 pm

Almost finished Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett.

8Bookmarque
Apr. 13, 2022, 8:43 pm

Oooh, please tell us once you finish with the bloodbath, lol. What did you think?

9seitherin
Apr. 14, 2022, 5:28 pm

Finished In the Name of Truth by Viveca Sten. Didn't like it as much as the last one.

10rabbitprincess
Apr. 14, 2022, 6:06 pm

>8 Bookmarque: I gasped out loud when Dinah Brand was killed! Was not expecting that one.

11pamelad
Bearbeitet: Apr. 16, 2022, 8:10 pm

Edited because I posted to the wrong group. I am reading The Stranger Diaries.

12raidergirl3
Apr. 16, 2022, 5:09 pm

Halfway through Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins. Had a little break as I left my mini IPod in a hotel in Montreal on an unexpected 24 h layover/missed connection and had to wait for the hotel to ship it to me. Surprisingly only took a couple days. Canada Post > Air Canada

13Cecilturtle
Apr. 16, 2022, 5:10 pm

>4 bobbyl: Hey Bobby, I'm reading State of Terror too and am having a good giggle at the mischievous comedy - fast-paced and easy to read!

14rabbitprincess
Apr. 16, 2022, 5:55 pm

Spent the past day or so tearing through The Madness of Crowds, by Louise Penny. Normally I stay one book behind on the Three Pines series so I always have one in reserve, but I needed a guaranteed good read to kick myself out of a slump.

15Bookmarque
Apr. 16, 2022, 7:30 pm

The Investigator by John Sandford - the first of what he hopes will be 4 or 5 Letty Davenport novels. So far pretty good, she is methodical like Lucas, but smart enough to know what she doesn’t know.

16rabbitprincess
Apr. 17, 2022, 11:30 am

Currently in crime: back to noir with Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler. I read the audio back in 2009 but have no recollection of the plot, so this is basically like reading the book for the first time.

17gmathis
Apr. 17, 2022, 9:09 pm

Next to me, ready to go: The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear. It's high time I caught up with Maisie.

18seitherin
Apr. 18, 2022, 4:47 pm

Just started The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey.

19bobbyl
Bearbeitet: Apr. 20, 2022, 1:31 pm

>15 Bookmarque: ooh interesting! Did not know he had started writing this new series. Need to look into

20bobbyl
Apr. 20, 2022, 1:30 pm

>13 Cecilturtle: Completed this now, and really did enjoy it. Very fast paced, and also I loved the main friendship in it, felt very real

21Bookmarque
Apr. 20, 2022, 2:21 pm

>19 bobbyl: I finished it yesterday and it wasn't bad, but still could have been better. Check it out though, especially if you have always liked Letty.

22Cecilturtle
Apr. 21, 2022, 5:02 pm

>20 bobbyl: I definitely agree on the friendship - it gave good grounding to the story.

I'm on to The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. I was surprised I hadn't read it yet... one of those books I've been meaning to read for a long time.

23rocketjk
Apr. 24, 2022, 12:41 pm

I finished Turning Angel by Greg Iles, the second book in Iles' Penn Cage mystery series. I found the storyline in this book a lot less plausible than in the series' first entry, The Quiet Game, but all in all Turning Angel was entertaining enough that I'll eventually be continuing with the series.

24rabbitprincess
Apr. 24, 2022, 1:45 pm

Started Death at the Château Bremont, by M. L. Longworth. Fun to compare the series "Murder in Provence", starring Roger Allam, to the source material.

25Bookmarque
Apr. 24, 2022, 1:49 pm

Am about 100 pages into Sundial by Catriona Ward - it's as weird and creepy as anything by her.

26Roycrofter
Apr. 25, 2022, 8:20 pm

Recently finished The Private Sector by Joseph Hone. This is the first of a short series of espionage novels featuring Peter Marlow. Hone was a contemporary of Deighton and le Carre and his writing is in the same vein.

27gmathis
Apr. 28, 2022, 9:19 pm

Just stumbled onto a copy of Penhallow at our local Dollar Tree. Georgette Heyer was always on my "mom-approved" romance list when I was transitioning into adult lit, but I wasn't aware she wrote mysteries.

28Jim53
Apr. 29, 2022, 10:05 pm

I was having trouble with Cloud Cuckoo Land (which I realize is not a mystery), so I dropped back to a comfort re-read of One Was a Soldier. Julia's series is my favorite. I'm tempted to just zip through re-reads of the remaining ones, but I'm holding them in reserve for now.

29dianeham
Apr. 29, 2022, 11:59 pm

30Bookmarque
Apr. 30, 2022, 8:49 am

Sundial was pretty excellent so I've moved on to another canted little tale that came from following a thread of recommendations based on Sundial - Broken River by J. Robert Lennon. So far I like it except for the dad character who is an ass.

31rabbitprincess
Apr. 30, 2022, 2:29 pm

I should get back to Agent in Place, by Helen MacInnes.

32seitherin
Mai 2, 2022, 1:07 pm