Mysteries and Detective Action

[Carolyn Tewell]

I really enjoyed The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille. Just enough humor to make it semi-believable!

Abandoned Column of Fire after 2 discs on Audiobook.

Deep Freeze by John Sandford is my current listen. A Virgil Flowers novel

I’m stuck in Accounting Software Hell after my system crashed at the office and all my accounting for 2017 is gone, baby gone! It was supposed to be backing up to The Cloud but didn’t happen. BOO HISS! Probably some of my fault since was never trained on how to verify the information. Just left it in the hands of Tech Guru who no longer works for us. Almost $20 a month wasted.

4 Letter words

WORK
OHIO
SNOW
COLD
NAPS...when other people get to have them and you don’t!

Okay,so I have never started a discussion on this site before. Just let me know how to adjust, modify or change...STANDING BY....

[Ursula]

Carolyn, you did a great job of starting a new discussion.  So glad to see someone making use of this website!!  Bookoholics is not the busy place it used to be. 

I have often wondered what happens to the info when the computer crashes in a business operation, but those years are long past for me.  I just returned from a 10-day trip to Washington DC and except for a bit of rain, the weather was perfect.  We learned how to ride the Metro and use Uber; although I had actually done the Metro on earlier trips but with a friend who lives in the area.  We managed not to get lost, but our Uber driver the first night couldn't seem to find the airport.  I took my ereader (Nook not Kindle) for the long plane ride and managed to finally read J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine, which is another book about a dysfunctional family.  I seem to be drawn to this story-line and was not disappointed in the book.  Then I moved on to The Summer Before the War, which is set in Great Britain before WWI.  It is a delightful story with all the trappings of the era.  Women were so restricted in what they could and could not do that reading about what a young woman had to do to get hired as a school teacher makes you grateful for living in our times....even with all our problems.  The author is Helen Simonson, whose first novel was Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.  Of course, neither of these books fall under your heading of Mysteries and Detective Action, but here I am.

Regarding your last sentence about how to adjust, modify or change, Hopefully you got the message pop-up after posting letting you know you had 15 minutes to edit your message. 

[Thomas William Farquhar vii BA]

Recently read "Murder Most Malicious" by Alyssa Maxwell.  Set in an English country mansion in the 1920`s a Lady and her maid are the detectives - sort of Downton Abbey meets Sherlock Holmes.  Will most definitely be reading the other books in the series.  Oh! just one more thing the murder did not take place in the library and it wasn`t the butler whodunnit.

A great start to this thread Ms Tewell.

[Joanne]

I use my KIndle for most of my mystery/detective reads.  Have gotten dozens of them either free or.99 from Book Bub,etc.  Discovered a new author, police procedural type thing with a very interesting main character.  Author: Aaron Stander; Sheriff: Ray Lewis.  Not much, if any, bad language, few misspellings (a lot less than most Ebooks) and interesting stories with the Lake Michigan and UP background.  There are four titles that I have: Summer People; Color Tour; Deer Season and Cruelest Month (which I am currently reading)  I'm not sure of the sequence, but for the most part, they could be "stand alones".  They don't really follow any "series" rule.  I think a few of you would be interested in these.  While there is at least one murder in each book, he doesn't dwell on the gory parts a whole lot.

[Ursula]

Always fun to discover a new author!!  I checked him out on fantasticfiction.com and you'll be pleased to know there are 5 more books in the series.  Here's a link: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/aaron-stander/.

Happy reading!

[Joanne]

Ursula, thanks for that.  I always forget to try FantasticFiction, and I used to use it a lot.  I'll have to get more Stander books.  

[Carolyn Tewell]

Thanks for the PROPS...THOMAS!

Joanne I will investigate the author you mention. Love reading stories where I have a connection to the location. Love the UP of Michigan. Another cool Author who writes about that area is Steve Hamilton. I’ve read or listened to all his books.

I forgot to share that I did listen to all 15 discs of Dan Brown’s ORIGINS. Thought it was compelling in many ways.

In response to diminished participation here I do want to thank the Founder of this site for giving us a FREE connection to old friends from EONS. When he started many other options wanted monthly fees.

I also realize that FACEBOOK slammed many chat forums to the curb. I WAS very engaged with Facebook and still am a fan of SPARKPEOPLE. BUT! Book reviews and recommendations are very limited on those sites. Lots of cat videos, however....LOL

Anyway, I will continue here as long as RAPA will be among us.

[Joanne]

I sorely miss all the participation we used to have in Bookoholics!  We were a fairly large and enthusiastic group. All us ' hanger's on" are still enthusiastic about our reading, whatever the genre.  I don't come in here as often as I should, only when I get a notification.  

[Glenda Scheideler]

I have decided to no longer ponder over book lists - I find that Carolyn likes the books I like -- and is equally enthusiastic about the not-so-great books.  From now on, I will be happy if Carolyn will just submit her book lists -- Will save me lots of time :)  Thanks for your great reviews!  Because I write so infrequently, I will wish everyone a happy holiday at this time!

[rapa]

You started a discussion perfectly, Mellow! Keep 'em coming when you can take a break from your Software Hell!

I started DEEP FREEZE last night. Hadn't remembered that Sandford has a sense of humor!

My daughter is flying down from VA tomorrow for a few days. She hasn't been here in 1 1/2 years but we talk often. Plan on taking her to The Kimbell Fri. for the CASANOVA exhibit. Will stop on way home to lunch at the large Antique Mall's Tea Room! Food terrific and homemade and great browsing!

Now for my late night reading!

[Joanne]

If you have time, try to come to Dallas' Meadows Museum and view the Zurbaran - Jacob and His Twelve Sons.

I saw it and it was wonderful!

Joanne

[Ioruach]

I'm currently into Deep Freeze and loving it. As far as I can recall, I've read all of Sandford's mysteries/thrillers. And he does have a great sense of humor. I have laughed out loud (in the privacy of my quiet apartment) several times. Example, "Dave, Dave...try to pay attention, okay? I mean, you can buy vibrators at Target. People in Trippton do more than the missionary position."  (Okay, Sanford is no Dostoevski, but he is a lot funnier.)

And then, yesterday one of my holds came in at the library and I gleefully picked up Sulfur Springs by one of my other favorites, William Kent Krueger. My good fortune runneth over!

[rapa]

Yep, I, too, am enjoying Sandford's humor! May finish the book tonight. Waiting at the library are the new Jack Reacher book and also Alende's new book.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! My son will pick me up Thursday to take me to his house in Grapevine for Thanksgiving dinner. Yesterday I dropped my daughter at airport to return to Leesburg, VA. We had a marvelous 4 day visit. I took her to The Kimbell for the famulous CASANOVA exhibit and then to the Antiques Mall Tea Room for delightful lunch. We also went to National Cemetery and then to Grapevine so she could visit with her brother/family in their new home..Had much fun "doing" downtown Grapevine! Sunday we went shopping/ browsing. That evening we dined at Moni's Italian neighborhood restaurant. Always excellent! This Friday my granddaughter, Rachel, and her two daughters are coming for lunch. They are flying in from Phoenix for a wedding.

So this week, Loruach, my cup also runneth over!!!!! For this, I give thanks!