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.

[HappyRuby]

I just finished Run A Crooked Mile by Janet LaPierre. I like her books. Now I'm on Wicked Prey by Sandford.

[Juri Nummelin]

Ellroy's Blood's a Rover. It's just not as thrilling as The Big Nowhere or LA Confidential. There's a mystery in the heart of the novel, but it's nowhere those two - which I think are his best. Interesting, though, that must be said. We'll see how the book moves along. I keep having trouble getting to read it.

[I. J. Parker]

Just tried another Denise Mina. Tossed this one also. I'm sorry, but I just can't cope with a world of criminally insane men killing and raping assorted drug-addicted or mentally disturbed women, and being let off a murder charge for lack of evidence so they can go and hunt down the women who accused them in the first place. But if you like a lot of violence and insanity, you'll find it.

[Suzanne]

I understand what you're saying. The violence level is on the high side. Maybe it's a Celtic thing; have you read Declan Hughes? Anyway, Mina grew up in a Glasgow slum and worked as a social worker before writing. No wonder her world view is on the dark side.

[I. J. Parker]

Yes, I think she works with the criminally insane. I fail to understand how people can write about something that's their daily life, but that's just me.
I believe I tried Declan Hughes and could handle that either. I do like Bruen, though.

[Suzanne]

The difference is that Bruen has a sense of humor, albeit a black one.

[I. J. Parker]

Make that "could not handle." And yes, that black humor is essential and very humanizing in Bruen's Irish novels.

[HappyRuby]

I am reading The Black Minute by Christopher Valen and enjoying the book.

[Sarah E Glenn]

I'm reading _House Call_, by Darden North, MD. I've been laid up with either a cold or the flu and have had time to READ for a change.

[HappyRuby]

Too bad about the flu but good on the time to read. I'm reading Fractured by Karin Slaughter that I've had in my TBR pile for sometime.

[I. J. Parker]

Why does this guy need an M.D. after his name?

[Suzanne]

To obtain preferred treatment:
In Italy, be a doctor (dottore for both MD and PhD)
In Germany, wear a uniform
In Mexico, try to speak Spanish
In England (outside of London), smile
In Scotland, breathing is sufficient
In London, nothing will make a difference