What Crime/Mystery/Thriller book are you reading?

[Jack Bauer]

I just finished reading Act of Treason by Vince Flynn. It sat on my shelf for a year and I finally got a chance to read it. I'll pick up hs follow up book some time next week but I probably won't get to it until his upcoming hardcover is in paperback as I'm way behind in my reading these days.

 

[JAG]

Love Vince Flynn's stuff. I am almost done with Sandra Brown's Play Dirty. I am enjoying it an awful lot

 

[Captain Ryan]

The Bourne Sanction by Eric Van Lustbader.

 

[WillsBabe]

I read Bleeding Hearts by Ian Rankin, writing as Jack Harvey, while on holiday recently. I massively enjoyed it from start to finish. As I understand it Jack Harvey is the early penname of Ian Rankin and this is an early novel. I bought the novel in a discount bookstore and went back when I came back from holiday to buy a couple more. The novel was partly written in first person from one protaganist's point of view and in the third person from a second. Before I read this novel I would have said that I wouldn't have been sure that this is the best way to creative a narrative but I think it worked. Thoroughly recommend it, and I'm pleased to say that I've discovered an new author, which is always good.

 

[trampledamage]

I read Bleeding Hearts by Ian Rankin, writing as Jack Harvey, while on holiday recently. I massively enjoyed it from start to finish. As I understand it Jack Harvey is the early penname of Ian Rankin and this is an early novel. I bought the novel in a discount bookstore and went back when I came back from holiday to buy a couple more. The novel was partly written in first person from one protaganist's point of view and in the third person from a second. Before I read this novel I would have said that I wouldn't have been sure that this is the best way to creative a narrative but I think it worked. Thoroughly recommend it, and I'm pleased to say that I've discovered an new author, which is always good.

Cool - thanks for the recommendation - I've been a bit gun-shy of Ian Rankin's very early novels after reading Witchhunt which I thought was awful. His Rebus novels have been consistently fantastic though. I'll get Bleeding Hearts - I love the opportunity for more Ian Rankin!

 

[WillsBabe]

^ Oh, no! I've just bought Witchhunt! There were loads of Rebus novels in the bookshop and I passed on them because I've been put off by seeing the adverts for the tv versions of them on tv. Now you have recommended them, I'll pick some up when I get into town today. Hope you enjoy Bleeding Hearts. Do let me know what you think, good or bad, I'd be interested to know.

 

[trampledamage]

^ Oh, no! I've just bought Witchhunt! There were loads of Rebus novels in the bookshop and I passed on them because I've been put off by seeing the adverts for the tv versions of them on tv. Now you have recommended them, I'll pick some up when I get into town today. Hope you enjoy Bleeding Hearts. Do let me know what you think, good or bad, I'd be interested to know.

Ignore the various TV versions of Rebus - none of them have done justice to the books - the books themselves are amazing!

Don't give up on Witchhunt - it may just have been because I was expecting something like his Rebus novels, which it isn't.

 

[opali]

Has anyone read Blood Memory by Greg Iles?

I've read mixed reviews.

 

[Top41]

I recently read a book called Kill Me by Stephen White. Although White has written quite a few books, this was the first of his I'd read. It won't be the last! He's definitely on my 'find and read everything he's written' list after that one.

The plot is like something Stephen King might have written in his non-supernatural days. A man signs up to an exclusive organisation who promise to kill you, should you ever develop a fatal illness or suffer a deterioration in your quality of life. Trouble is, when he develops a brain tumour - he finds he's not ready to die ... but the contract is irrevocable. Superbly written and gripped like a vice (to deploy my cliche for the day).

OK, that sounds really, really good! I might have to go looking for that one. Good thrillers are really hard to find these days.

Love Vince Flynn's stuff. I am almost done with Sandra Brown's Play Dirty. I am enjoying it an awful lot

I really like Brown's thrillers. Envy, the first one I read, is still my favorite, but she's had a couple of really good ones in the last few years. Play Dirty is the only recent one I haven't read; I'll have to look for that one. I think it just came out in paperback.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Just read Swag by Elmore Leonard while on the train yesterday- pretty good though I had to keep reminding myself it dates from 1976 (it was a 2004 edition) because it's about a couple of hold-up men who never once worry about CCTV cameras...

 

[Flibble]

Just finishing "The Triumph of Caesar" by Steven Saylor before moving on to "Dearly Devoted Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I just finished reading Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. It is a medical mystery thriller in which an experiment on board the International Space Station goes awry and the astronauts get trapped.

It is an excellent read, and the first time I have seen a space station story written from a non-science-fiction perspective. Well worth a look.

 

[firehawk12]

I just ordered Scalped, which I've been told is "Sopranos on a reservation". Hopefully it's as interesting as everyone says it is.

 

[trampledamage]

I just finished reading Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. It is a medical mystery thriller in which an experiment on board the International Space Station goes awry and the astronauts get trapped.

It is an excellent read, and the first time I have seen a space station story written from a non-science-fiction perspective. Well worth a look.

I like the idea of the ISS from a non-SF view point - I shall have to keep look out for this book.

Is it the Station as it is now or some future variant with permanent residents?

 

[BrotherBenny]

I just finished reading Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. It is a medical mystery thriller in which an experiment on board the International Space Station goes awry and the astronauts get trapped.

It is an excellent read, and the first time I have seen a space station story written from a non-science-fiction perspective. Well worth a look.

I like the idea of the ISS from a non-SF view point - I shall have to keep look out for this book.

Is it the Station as it is now or some future variant with permanent residents?

As it is now, set now. Nothing science fiction about it.

 

[trampledamage]

I just finished reading Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. It is a medical mystery thriller in which an experiment on board the International Space Station goes awry and the astronauts get trapped.

It is an excellent read, and the first time I have seen a space station story written from a non-science-fiction perspective. Well worth a look.

I like the idea of the ISS from a non-SF view point - I shall have to keep look out for this book.

Is it the Station as it is now or some future variant with permanent residents?

As it is now, set now. Nothing science fiction about it.

Valid point. Sorry, I'm not getting enough sleep

 

[BrotherBenny]

No problem, I am well aware of that feeling.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Just started reading Jeff Mariotte's "CSI: Miami: Right to Die."

So far it's pretty good just Alexx's talking to the body is a little overdone. She doesn't talk quite like that on the show, and H still has his unique way of looking at the world,through his shades.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I've just finished The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen. A good medical thriller with an unusual heroine, an icy bitch. The characters were well realised and while the plot was predictable in places, it was a satisfying end.

Next up is Cold Granite, the debut novel by Scottish author Stuart MacBride.

 

[S. Gomez]

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. I read The Maltese Falcon last year and loved it, so I'm going on and reading some more by him. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in The Glass Key before I leave on an upcoming trip.