What Fiction are you reading this week, August 28, 2022?

[hermetic]

Tills Books, Edinburgh


I'm reading the first Kate Ellis book, The Merchant's House, from 1999. Great story. I'm really enjoying it and am grateful to our DUer from across the pond for recommending it. I am looking forward to reading more of her books and there's over 40 so guess I'll be busy for a while. Tonight I will start The Armada Boy, the second Ellis book.

Listening to Murder in the Mystery Suite by Ellery Adams. At the Storyton Hall resort, the manager has decided to host a Murder and Mayhem week so that fans of the mystery genre can gather together for some role-playing and fantasy crime solving. But when someone resorts to actual murder then it's not so much fun and games any more.

What fiction are you looking forward to reading this week?

[SheltieLover]

1. "More [Stephanie] Plums in One"

Great read!

Just finished Fern Michael's Sisterhood book: :Hokus Pokus."

A little tedious through the middle, but the justice they dish up is well worth it!

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I'm reading Trace Evidence by Elizabeth Becka

The Author is a forensic scientist who used to live and work in Cleveland but now lives in Florida. Her debut novel takes place in Cleveland. (a city I am familiar with. Lol). I’m enjoying it so far.

[SheltieLover]

12. Sounds intriguing!

Thx for sharing!

[bif]

3. "The Tsar of Love and Techno"

By Anthony Marra. Excellent read!

[Effete Snob]

4. Trump's statements on Truth Social

[cbabe]

5. Finished Ace Atkins' Quinn Colson series. Recommend next author/series?

Louise Penny
Lee Child
James Lee Burke
Nick Petrie
John Sandford
Michael Connolly

Little known but so good

https://www.goodreads.com › series › 55198-gabriel-du-pre

Gabriel Du Pre Series by Peter Bowen

15 primary works • 16 total works Gabriel Du Pré, Métis (Cree and French, maybe a little English) cattle inspector and sometimes sheriff, in Montana

Next…?

Thanks.

[hermetic]

7. Not sure I understand your question

I would recommend all of those on your list. I have read and loved every Louise Penny book. And Connolly.

C. J. Box, the Joe Pickett novels set in Wyoming?

Laurie King?

Goodness knows, there's a gazillion out there. Goodreads is a good source.

[cbabe]

8. The list is authors I've read and enjoyed. The

early C J Box titles were good.

Also Robert Crais.

And Robert Parker, of course.

Looking for similar titles/series. Not cozies, historical, romance.

I do use goodreads quite a bit.

Suggestions? Thanks again.

[hermetic]

11. From TexLaProgressive

When a skeleton is discovered wrapped in a blanket in a crypt, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previousl. "Death at Whitewater Church" is the first in a series of Ben O'Keeffe mysteries set on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal.

Or how about Walt Longmire Mysteries by Craig Johnson. I enjoyed those.

[Diamond_Dog]

15. For series books

You can’t beat William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series

I also loved Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone alphabet murders

[yellowdogintexas]

21. have you read any Daniel Silva books?

These are very good.

Reknowned art restorer Gabriel Allon is also the Mossad's most deadly weapon

I love these books

[TexLaProgressive]

9. Reading "Death At Whitewater Church" by Andrea Carter

Listening to Mercedes Lackey's "Four and Twenty Blackbirds"

[hermetic]

13. Good stuff

[MaryMagdaline]

10. Reading Where Angels Fear to Tread

EM Forster

[japple]

14. Rereading an old favorite: Anne Tyler's book,

Searching for Caleb. After reading so much about WWII and the spies for the French Resistance, this book seems so tame and normal. The characters are like people I know, which is comforting. Highly recommend this one.

Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined steadiness. Adamantly middle class—Peck-proud, as the family slogan goes—they are quick to sweep under the rug those members who do not live up to their standards. Maybe that’s why Caleb Peck took off with his violincello as a boy? Sixty years later, his brother Daniel is still wondering. No longer willing to live without answers, he turns to his daughter-in-law, Justine, another Peck family eccentric. A studied tarot card reader, Justine comes across one message over and over in the cards: change is coming. With Daniel’s help, she’s hoping to find the courage to embrace whatever happens next.

[hermetic]

16. Sounds good

A bit of fun with the cards... I will look for this one. Thanks.

[The King of Prussia]

17. Glad you're enjoying Kate Ellis

I love them! I just read "Serpent's Point" which is the latest in the series. Now I have to wait a year for the next one to come out 😔.
Current read is "The Crowded Grave" the fourth in Martin Walker's excellent "Bruno" series of mysteries set in the Dordogne - also recommended if you haven't come across them.
We're off on the train to the seaside tomorrow (and visiting a second hand bookshop), so I'll take a compact read with me - probably Ed McBain.
Have a good week fellow readers!

Have you dispatched Covid now, Hermetic?

[hermetic]

18. Funny thing about that

I think there will always be something there to remind me. It has definitely changed my life. Sure, just a wee bit, but still. I sleep more, I eat less. But who knows/ Maybe I would have felt that way anyway? Getting old and all. So, I try to infuse my days with all things Scottish. Books, movies, music. It does brighten my day.

Hope you have a lovely trip tomorrow. And a safe and happy week. Sláinte!

[The King of Prussia]

19. I'm sort of similar

My sense of smell, which was poor anyway, has pretty much disappeared. Taste has changed too. Wine, which I loved, now tastes vile. Curiously I seem to have acquired more serious long term effects since my wife had it - although I didn't appear to catch it from her.
If you're going big on Scottish books you should definitely try Marion Todd - if she is available over there.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. Gangsters vs Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters battled Nazis in wartime America

by Michael Benson

Goodreads Top Nonfiction of 2022

As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobsters waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst. Gangland-style. . . .

In this thrilling blow-by-blow account, acclaimed crime writer Michael Benson uncovers the shocking truth about the insidious rise of Nazism in America—and the Jewish mobsters who stomped it out. Learn about:

* Nazi Town, USA: How one Long Island community named a street after Hitler, decorated buildings with swastikas, and set up a camp to teach US citizens how to goosestep.

* Meyer Lansky and Murder Inc.: How a Jewish mob accountant led fifteen goons on a joint family mission to bust heads at a Brown Shirt rally in Manhattan.

* Fritz Kuhn, “The Vest-Pocket Hitler”: How a German immigrant spread Nazi propaganda through the American Bund in New York City—with 70 branches across the US.

* Newark Nazis vs The Minutemen: How a Jewish resistance group, led by a prize fighter and bootlegger for the mob, waged war on the Bund in the streets of Newark.

* Hitler in Hollywoodland: How Sunset Strip kingpin Mickey Cohen knocked two Brown Shirters’ heads together—and became the West Coast champion in the mob’s war on Nazis.

Packed with surprising, little-known facts, graphic details, and unforgettable personalities, Gangsters vs. Nazis chronicles the mob’s most ruthless tactics in taking down fascism—inspiring ordinary Americans to join them in their fight. The book culminates in one of the most infamous events of the pre-war era—the 1939 Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden—in which law-abiding citizens stood alongside hardened criminals to fight for the soul of a nation. This is the story of the mob that’s rarely told—one of the most fascinating chapters in American history and American organized crime.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. follow up I am about 1/2 way through this book

It is not great literature nor does it pretend to be. BUT in reading it, there are so many spots describing the American Nazis of the 30s that only need a couple of names switched to read like today's news.

Scary.

[hermetic]

24. Scary, indeed...

[question everything]

22. Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton "State of Terror"

A real page turner, almost finished.

Too close to reality. A new administration following an incompetent buffoon who knows everything better than "his" generals.

And a new Secretary of State, a former rival - not political - of the new President who has the unenviable task to mend relations with allies alienated by the former president.

And when terror attacks happen in Europe, the Secretary of State is traveling the globe to meet with friends and foes head of states to prevent a catastrophe.

[hermetic]

25. I love this book

Penny and Clinton are totally 2 of my real life heroines.