June 2018 ~ What are you reading?

Starting new thread.

I'm closing in on the finish of If the Dead Rise Not, the 6th installment in Philip Kerr's excellent "Bernie Gunther" series.

Finished Reamde by Neal Stephenson which turned out to be much more of a thriller with jihadists, Russian mafia, mercenaries, spies, and clever people who know a bit about computers. Really enjoyed it.

About 100 pages into Force of Nature by Jane Harper. I enjoyed her first book The Dry.

>4 jwrudn: I loved both her books. I think she's a real star.

I'm reading The Moscow Deception by Karen Robards. Very interesting so far.

Just finished Hell Bay ... Barker and Llewellyn are outside their normal digs in the Scilly Isles at a rather distressing house party. I rather missed the London cast, but a rollicking read all the same.

just downloaded this audiobook from OverDrive ~

The President Is Missing: A Novel
by James Patterson
and Bill Clinton

(the narration ensemble includes Dennis Quaid/this tale takes off
like a bullet train/the president's speech at the end is awesome)

♥♥♥♥♥

Added Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell to my reading rotation.

Finished Silent Victim. OK read.

Finished Force of Nature by Jane Harper. A terrific second book following her excellent debut novel, The Dry. A real thriller - kept me reading past my bedtime.

>5 tottman: I agree.

The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry
#4 Cotton Malone dried
3.5 ⭐️

Cotton Malone lost his Dad when he was 10 years old. His father, Forest Malone was the Captain of an experimental 11 man submarine called NA-1. It was lost at sea in 1971. Cotton wanted to find out what had really happened to his Dad. To that end, he contacted the head of the super classified Magellan Billet and his friend Stephanie who directed the group. She sent him secret documents that alluded to the sub having actually been lost in the Antarctic rather than the Artic. In a round about manner, this brought Cotton to the Charlemagne Persuit. Twin German sisters are searching for their father who also was aboard the NR-1 sub, but he was a researcher. He was researching a lost Aryan civilization which he tracked to the Antarctic via a book which was buried with Charlemagne. Meanwhile, a US Navy admiral is tying up loose ends as he pursues an appointment to head the Joint Chief of Staffs. Cotton and company seem to be among those loose ends.

An enjoyable fast paced read with many twists and turns.

enjoying this library audiobook ~

Charlatans
by Robin Cook
https://www.librarything.com/work/18755257/book/156934637

(eye-opening medical suspense tale/Boston Memorial Hospital)

Now reading Talking to the dead by Harry Bingham after hear LTers talking about the Fiona Griffiths series. This one is first in the series. So far, so good!

Coming into the home stretch of The Perfect Ghost a stand-alone novel from Linda Barnes and it's really good. Not that her Carlotta books aren't, but it's different. Glad she didn't try to shoehorn it into the series.

Added A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride to my reading rotation.

Just finished A Legacy of Spies, John Le Carre's latest spy book which looks back at an old case during the cold war. Not quite sure I was convinced of the premise of the book which is that grown children of some people killed during a covert operation are threatening to take the British government to court for their parents' deaths. Nevertheless it was full of twists and turns and kept me up past my bedtime for a couple of nights.

The Persian Pickle Club was not promoted as a mystery; centers on a group of quilters in Depression-era Kansas, but it turns into a whodunit with a humdinger of an ending. Serendipity.

>17 gmathis:

I’ve had that on the shelf for a long time.
I’m off to look for it. Sounds like a good one to add to the ‘read soon’ pile!

>18 nrmay: I haven't quilted for years but it is imprinted in my DNA, which is the reason I bought it; the mystery is just frosting on top.

enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
http://www.librarything.com/work/19831710/book/157019083

(noir)

And I've powered through another book Extraordinary People (the touchstone comes up with a different title, Dry Bones) the first in the Enzo Files series by Peter May. I know I'm late to the party because this book was published in 2006 but somehow it never came to my attention until I had read Peter May's Lewis trilogy. It's a really good mystery set in France with a Scottish forensic scientist as the sleuth.

started this library audiobook ~

The Woman Left Behind: A Novel
by Linda Howard

(romantic suspense/military fiction)

Finished A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride. Seriously twisty.

Started Lady Cop Makes Trouble the second in the Kopp Sisters series by Amy Stewart.
Made a hyperlink because the touchstones aren't working.

Faves in 2018, so far (audiobooks) ~

Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
The Dry by Jane Harper (book #1 in an Aussie series)
The President Is Missing by Patterson and Clinton
and
Charlatans by Robin Cook
http://www.librarything.com/work/18755257/book/156934637

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Something in the Water: a novel by Catherine Steadman

(Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from across the pond/read by the author)

The Celtic Riddle by Lyn Hamilton
#4 An Archeological Mystery
2 1/2 ⭐️

A fair mystery, but not up to the previous 3. I found the Irish myth storytelling to be rather boring. The whole story revolves around the ancient myths of the founding of Ireland. There was not enough of the archeology, as per previous novels, to keep my attention. I could only read this in small spurts, as the Irish legends were not of interest to me. Be that as it may, I did finish the book. Lara McClintoch went to Ireland with her elderly friend Ales and her Canadian Mounted Policeman’s friend Rob and his daughter. Alex was there to hear the reading of a will written by a man Alex knew decades ago in his Merchant Marine Days. Alex inherits a cottage. However all those in the will receive clues to an ancient Celtic treasure. The treasure could be found if all work together. So, Lara and company decide to stay a bit longer. It is a story of treasure, murder, family funding and revenge.

Just started The Damascened Blade and like what I'm seeing. Always a plus when you can pick up a book mid-series (this is the third, I believe, by Barbara Cleverly) and feel comfortable with the characters, backstory or not.

Finished Walking the Perfect Square by Reed Farrel Coleman. The is the first in his Moe Prager series. I had read it many years ago, but I decided to re-read it and continue with the rest of the series.

>26 Molly3028: I thought that was an entertaining beach read!

I’m nearly finished with I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. I don’t understand how any woman in California managed to get any sleep at all during the 60s-70s.

Added Blue Monday by Nicci French to my reading rotation.

I needed a change of pace from all the history I'm reading, so I started Bloody Scotland, a short story collection featuring 12 Scottish writers, each setting a story at a different historical site in Scotland. It has done the job nicely.

Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre

Twisted,very very dark and gripping as always from this author.

About 2/3 the way through Redemption Street the second in the Moe Prager series by Reed Farrel Coleman. I liked the first Walking the Perfect Square, which I re-read after many years, and am liking the second. I hope to work my way through the series if I dont get distracted by something else I want to read - which often happens.

Finished Blue Monday by Nicci French. Enjoyed it.

I started A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay. Really enjoying it so far!

I thought l heard there was a mini-series coming of Sharp objects, Gillian Flynn’s first novel.
I’m reading that one now.

Just finished Redemption Street, the 2nd in the Moe Prager series by Reed Farrel Coleman. It was good. I will continue with the series, but first The Wife Between Us. I just started: woman unhinged by her divorce is stalking the woman her ex is planning to marry, but I am sure there are plenty of twists and thrills to come.

Added Sunday Silence by Nicci French to my reading rotation.

Now I am reading a book in Italian about Hercule Poirot: Le indagini di Hercule Poirot.

After, I will start reading again all Tolkien in English ...

The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry
#4 Cotton Malone Mysteries
4 ⭐️

I enjoyed this episode of Cotton Malone. This wasn’t the typical globe trotting venture for the retired DOJ lawyer/Agent. Cotton’s apartment above his bookstorewas broken into by a young Secret Service Agent named Sam. Sam was urgently seeking help for Cotton’s aged multi billionaire friend Henrik Thorvoldsen. They raced to Henrik’s estate, only fo find that Henrik had taken care of part of the problem himself. Meanwhile a consortium of extremely weathly individuals are on the hunt for the lost treasure of Napoleon, which leads Cotton, Sam, Henrik and Cotton’s former boss Stephanie to Paris. Makes my things more interesting is a world class assassin.

New Thread - http://www.librarything.com/topic/293065

Belatedly realised I'd forgotten to post any of my June reads here:

Odd Child Out by Gilly MacMillan...not as good as previous books by this author
The Girl I used to Be by Mary Torjussen...just so-so
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman...pretty good summer reading book