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.

[Jacqui Horwood]

it's been great reading this thread - so many fab recommendations. i've just started ian rankin's exit music. i've delayed reading because i don't want to say good-bye to rebus.

[Neil Plakcy]

I am reading David Rosenfelt's PLAY DEAD. I was initially attracted by the golden retriever on the cover, and the idea that a golden plays a role in the plot. But I'm drawn forward by the funny writing and the clever plot.

[Mike Stotter]

Just started reading THE LAST OF THE GOOD GUYS. Pretty good start and Carbone has a good voice.

[Sky Jensen]

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

[Tanja]

Niccolo Amaniti's "I'm not afraid" AND Boris Akunin's "Azazel". Both great so far. That "Thirteenth tale" I was reading - amazing book. Written in a bit different way. I can't explain why. I just know that usually I can always put down the book and go study or go to sleep because I have to get up next morning. It wasn't the case with this book and I can't explain why. It's like magic :)

[Joy Calderwood]

Loved Jacqueline Winspear's AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE. I would say that of the series, it's second only to her multi-award-winning MAISIE DOBBS for heart, and the atmosphere is at least as powerful as MAISIE. I couldn't put it down.

Now to get back to NO DEVIL, NO REDEEMER -- which is riveting. I'm having a good reading streak!

[Karen from AustCrime]

Okay - well I'll fire it up again.

I just finished Head Shots by Jarad Henry (who recently joined here as well) - really good - reviewed it at: http://www.austcrimefiction.org/node/4039

Now I'm reading Speak of the Devil by Richard Hawke - I'm normally not much of a one for wise-cracking lone wolves, but for some reason this series sort of appeals.

Recently I was lucky enough to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - if somehow the buzz about that book has passed you by, get to a bookstore - go on. Now. What are you waiting for?

[Jacqui Horwood]

I'm halfway through Shane Maloney's "Sucked in"-as funny and observant as ever.

[Karen from AustCrime]

It is isn't it. And as it goes it gets almost poignant. It's sad to think we're coming to the end of that series.

[Jacqui Horwood]

Oh no - I didn't know this. I'm still dealing with the end of Rebus!!!!!

[Patrick Balester]

I'm currently reading two books,
Copper River by William Kent Krueger, and
Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellman. Both are excellent, so far.

Incidently, I just finished Razzmatazz, an early Sandra Scoppettone mystery written under the name Jack Early.
Guess we've come pretty far. No one would suggest today that a woman write under a man's name just to gain legitimacy as a writer.

[Joy Calderwood]

Yesterday I committed the horrible error of going to work without my book: UNDER VESUVIUS, the latest in the SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts. I have been greatly enjoying my read-through of this whole series during lunches and bus rides. The voice of hero Decius combines guileless frankness, subcutaneous satire, and a growing character worthy of respect. Author Roberts gives the impression that he is speaking to us from right there in the ancient Late Roman Republic. In UNDER VESUVIUS, a luxury community setting is used to consider Rome's relations with the rich and foreign.

But as I was saying, I was deprived of that yesterday. Fortunately our lunchroom has a donation library. Does anybody remember Patricia Wentworth, author of classic whodunits in the '50s? I picked up THE LISTENING EYE, and read late last evening to finish it. A deaf woman eavesdrops on a murder/burglary plot, causing our detective Miss Silver to become involved with the guests of a wealthy art patron. Wentworth tells a very likeable story.

Enough playing hookey, I have some speeches to write.