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.

[K Barrett]

You know who I haven't heard from in a while is Jane Goodall, an Australian author writing about a British female cop. Aka Jane R Goodall. Or maybe her books just haven't come to America in the formats I prefer.

Thanks for the rec of a standalone author. I haven't quite freed myself from the 'gotta read a series in order' compulsion, which tends to make me not read some authors if they have a huge backlist. Silly, I know. Maybe there's a med for that.

[Karen from AustCrime]

I've not seen anything from Jane Goodall for years now, which is a huge pity.

I know lots of people who have that series order compulsion - I've got the perfect cure - memory like a sieve itis or total disorganisation - both work for me :)

[Jacqui Horwood]

i'm just endorsing neil cross. he's written some interesting books.

[Kemosabe]

I just finished McCarthy's The Road. I have to give the book four stars only because of McCarthy's brilliance. I say have to because I hate long sections of descriptions. That is almost what this book is full of. That and sufferings after sufferings. I have to say the few spots with characters were brilliant and exciting. I'm at a loss as to why someone somewhere didn't try to grow some food. If the ground was contaminated then the author should say so.
It was a tough read but I'm glad I read it.

[I. J. Parker]

Well, but growing food would have destroyed the bleakness of it. Why introduce hope unnecessarily?

[Karyn J. Powers]

Just finished Evonovich's 16 and Wood's book Lucid Intervals.

[Kemosabe]

I am disappointed with two novels I have just read John Harvey's cold in hand 9.50kindle I rated **+ It is scotland but ruralish and good enough to finish but...
Michael Koryta's Envy the Night ** 799 kindle good prose but dumb goody two shoes plot in places. I am so hungry for a good book. I'm trying Jan Burke's Flight. It has a bang bang start good prose that moves but the detective is starting to bond with a teenaged victim. We'll have to see.

[Joy Calderwood]

I checked four Robert Barnards out of the library. Now reading THE GRAVEYARD POSITION. An interesting family intrigue. It isn't one of his where we have to suffer the presence of a flaming sadist, like most of his early ones.

[Harley Sachs]

Anyone familiar with books by Val McDermid? My daughter gavc me the Norweigian translation of "The Torment of Others" (Andres noed" in Norwegian) which I'm reading. It is excellent. He's a British author with aquite a few books translated to Norwegian. (I used to live in Swewden and Denmark, so can manage Norwegian).
I just published my latest novel "Betrayal" available from lulu.com. Ever had a one night stand that ended in a paternity case? "Betrayal" is something like that, with a twist. The one night stand was in Moscow in a KGB plot. My protagonist is suspected of being a sleeper agent. Oh, my.

[I. J. Parker]

Val McDermid is a she. Very good author of thriller/profiling novels from Scotland. I'm not as happy with her police procedurals, which strike me as rather cozy.

[Harley Sachs]

I'm all for "cozy" mysteries as the gruesome stuff gives me nightmares and foul language adds little to a book. I've written a series of cozies, "The Mystery Club Solves a Murder," etc. about old ladies living in a retirement building and solving crimes. All four can be had in one volume at lulu.com. I do occasionally have a sex scene, but don't write erotica.
Interesting: Zumaya's last royalty report indicated that twice as many of the sales were in digital format. Do you have a kindle or other ebook reader?

[Jacqui Horwood]

i'm in agreement here, IJ. much prefer Val's Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series. for all the aussies, Val McDermid will be a presenter at this year's Davitt Awards. she's a fabulous person.