What are you currently reading?

[QualityBookReviews]

An open discussion on what everyone is currently reading. Make recommendations to others, discuss what is new, hot, bestsellers, anything and everything related to books and the authors.

[Zetta]

I am reading THE DEATH CHAMBER by British author Sarah Rayne. I was poking around on Amazon (when I should have been working) when I spotted this and it sounded very interesting. It's a fiction novel centered around a disused gaol where they held mostly condemed prisoners.

The main protagonist is the great-granddaughter of one of the prison's doctors who had to preside over the executions. Since the method of choice in Britain was hanging, it can be a bit gruesome. And, to add to the mix, there's a film crew wanting to do a documentary on if there's any truth to buildings being haunted. So naturally, the great-granddaughter and the film crew have to cross paths and of course, don't forget there is the certain "someone who will go to any lengths to ensure the past remains buried..."

Overall it's a good story so far--editing could use some work IMO, but then again I'm an editor so maybe I'm biased! LOL

[HappyRuby]

Sounds like quite a book. I am reading Compulsion by Jennifer Chase. It is about a woman that tracks down serial killers. Not a job I would want.

[Joy Calderwood]

BREAKING DAWN, Stephenie Meyer. Closing in on the end of my second reading of the series. After this I hope I will feel satisfied enough to put in some intensive work.

[Rodney Wiethop]

I just finished Daniel Depps "Loser Town" & now I'm reading an ARC of Ken Bruen & Reed Farrell Coleman's new book "Tower" & Ace Atkins "Devils Garden" on Fatty Arbuckles murder rap. Rod Wiethop

[I. J. Parker]

Three books at the same time?

[HappyRuby]

Lots of people do more than one book at a time - I'm not one of them. I'm doing good to concentrate on one at a time. Just finished The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley. I enjoyed the book and reading about South Africa.

[Harley Sachs]

Alas, I don't get down to reading until bedtime and in twenty minutes I am o-u-t fir the night.
I'm returning to Michigan next weekend to start a new mystery. It should be a good one, as my wife gave me a brilliant idea for it. If I complete it and it is published it will be book #22.

Harley Sachs www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlsachs where you can read the short story "The Great Fortune Cookie Caper." Funny mystery.

[Karen from AustCrime]

I've just read something I'd be plugging as Best New Crime Fiction novel in this year's Neds - Storm Peak by John A Flanagan and then Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor. Now I have to find something to keep up the standard :)

[Dana King]

Breaking and Entering, by Connie Fletcher. Oral histories of police women, circa 1995. It's a re-read for me, highly recommended.

[D K Gaston]

I'm reading Dean Koontz's 'The Good Guy' - half way through it and I'm really enjoying it.
I'm also reading Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods - nearly finished. This is also a good read.

[HappyRuby]

I'm reading Fire & Ice by J. A. Jance and it good.

[Joy Calderwood]

SITKA by Louis l'Amour -- since I'm still in Alaska mode, and I needed something that wouldn't hang onto my attention for days. In addition to the standard l'Amour mountain man hero, it ties into the circumstances of the Alaska Purchase.