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WT Sharpe 07-20-2016 12:47 AM
August 2016 Book Club Nominations
 
Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for August, 2016.

The nominations will run through midnight EST July 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.

The book selection category for August is: Thriller, Suspense, & Crime.

In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.


Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo US / Overdrive / Overdrive Audio
Print Length: 384 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women — a decade apart — told in reverse.

It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards — Day 15 to Day 1 — from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.


(2) Carved in Bone (Body Farm Book 1) by Jefferson Bass
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo US / Overdrive
Print Length: 416 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.

A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave's chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.

The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that's clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman's corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county's powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton's investigation altogether. So do Brockton's other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.

Carved in Bone is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.


(3) The Boy In The Suitcase (Nina Borg #1) by Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis
Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US / Overdrive
Print Length: 321 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.


(4) Fast One by Paul Cain
Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US
Print Length: 211 pages
Spoiler:
This was Cain's only novel. He is considered by some to be the most hard-boiled of writers.

“In the matter of grim hardness Dashiell [Hammett] paused on the threshold. Paul [Cain] went all the way.” —Captain Joe Shaw, editor of Black Mask during its golden era

“[Fast One represents] some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner.” —Raymond Chandler, author, The Big Sleep

I]From Goodreads:[/I]

Billed as "the most hard-boiled novel of the 1930s" and featuring one of the most brutal finales in crime fiction history, some say this lost 1933 masterpiece took hard-boiled crime writing too far. In the last days of Prohibition and the first days of the Depression, East Coast crime bosses are vying for control of Los Angeles. Caught in the middle of the intrigue is Gerry Kells, a former New York enforcer now living a life of ease on the West coast. As the fiercely independent Kells rejects the appeals of various crime bosses who want to make use of his talents, powerful forces align against him. Being framed for a murder turns out to be the least of his troubles and as the stakes get higher, and the odds get longer, it's only Kells' nerve and toughness that keep him one step ahead of the law—and the reaper.


(5) Open Season by C.J. Box
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US
Print Length: 316 pages
Spoiler:
From Publishers Weekly:

Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the first in a series introducing Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, should immediately make him a contender for best first novel or even best novel awards. Young Joe is struggling to fill the shoes of his mentor, legendary Vern Dunnegan, as warden of Twelve Sleep County, and trying to support his wife and growing family on the meager salary he makes. The hours are long, the work hard but satisfying, and Joe's honesty and integrity would pay off if he could avoid "bonehead moves" like ticketing the governor of the state for fishing without a license, for instance, or allowing a poacher to grab Joe's firearm from him. When that very same poacher turns up dead and bloodied in Joe's woodpile with only a cooler containing unidentified animal scat, his life, livelihood and family will never be the same. Upping the excitement are a couple of murders, local political and bureaucratic intrigue, a high-stakes pipeline scheme and an endangered species that Joe's eldest daughter "discovers." No one has done a better job of portraying the odd combination of hardy and foolhardy folk that make their homes in Wyoming's wilderness areas, or of describing the dichotomy between those who want to develop the area and those who want to preserve it. Without resorting to simplistic blacks and whites, Box fuses ecological themes, vibrant descriptions of Wyoming's wonders and peculiarities, and fully fleshed characters into a debut of riveting tensions. Meet Joe Pickett: he's going to be a mystery star.


(6) Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo US / Overdrive / Overdrive Audio
Print Length: 336 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she's in final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to her.


(7) The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Kobo UK/ Overdrive v1 / Overdrive v2 / Overdrive Audio v1 / Overdrive Audio v2
Print Length: 415 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, grey eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.


(8) They Don't Dance Much by James Ross
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Kobo US
Print Length: 304 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder

Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs, and everything he owns is mortgaged — even his cow. He has no money, no prospects, and nothing to do but hang around filling stations, wondering where his next drink will come from. As far as hooch goes, there's no place like Smut Milligan's, where Breath of Spring moonshine sells for a dollar a pint.

A bootlegger with an entrepreneurial spirit, Milligan has plans to open a roadhouse, and he asks Jack to run the till. The music will be hot, the liquor cheap, and the clientele rough. But the only thing stronger than Milligan's hooch is his greed, and Jack is slowly drawn into the middle of Smut's dalliances with a married woman, the machinations of corrupt town officials — and a savage act of murder.


Nominations are now closed.

WT Sharpe 07-20-2016 12:47 AM
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Spoiler:
Australian
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Canada
Amazon. Make sure you are logged out. Then go to the Kindle Store. Search for a book. After the search results come up, in the upper right corner of the screen, change the country to Canada and search away.
Google
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UK
BooksOnBoard (In the upper right corner is a way to switch to the UK store)
Amazon
Foyle's
Google
Penguin
Random House
Waterstones
WH Smith


*** They Don't Dance Much by James Ross [peterwardgd, WT Sharpe, GA Russell]
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Kobo US
Print Length: 304 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder

Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs, and everything he owns is mortgaged — even his cow. He has no money, no prospects, and nothing to do but hang around filling stations, wondering where his next drink will come from. As far as hooch goes, there's no place like Smut Milligan's, where Breath of Spring moonshine sells for a dollar a pint.

A bootlegger with an entrepreneurial spirit, Milligan has plans to open a roadhouse, and he asks Jack to run the till. The music will be hot, the liquor cheap, and the clientele rough. But the only thing stronger than Milligan's hooch is his greed, and Jack is slowly drawn into the middle of Smut's dalliances with a married woman, the machinations of corrupt town officials — and a savage act of murder.


*** Fast One by Paul Cain [GA Russell, peterwardgd, CRussel]
Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US
Print Length: 211 pages
Spoiler:
This was Cain's only novel. He is considered by some to be the most hard-boiled of writers.

“In the matter of grim hardness Dashiell [Hammett] paused on the threshold. Paul [Cain] went all the way.” —Captain Joe Shaw, editor of Black Mask during its golden era

“[Fast One represents] some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner.” —Raymond Chandler, author, The Big Sleep

I]From Goodreads:[/I]

Billed as "the most hard-boiled novel of the 1930s" and featuring one of the most brutal finales in crime fiction history, some say this lost 1933 masterpiece took hard-boiled crime writing too far. In the last days of Prohibition and the first days of the Depression, East Coast crime bosses are vying for control of Los Angeles. Caught in the middle of the intrigue is Gerry Kells, a former New York enforcer now living a life of ease on the West coast. As the fiercely independent Kells rejects the appeals of various crime bosses who want to make use of his talents, powerful forces align against him. Being framed for a murder turns out to be the least of his troubles and as the stakes get higher, and the odds get longer, it's only Kells' nerve and toughness that keep him one step ahead of the law—and the reaper.


*** All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda [WT Sharpe, Dazrin, Luffy]
Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo US / Overdrive / Overdrive Audio
Print Length: 384 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women — a decade apart — told in reverse.

It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards — Day 15 to Day 1 — from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.


*** Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein [JSWolf, Luffy, Grey Ram]
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo US / Overdrive / Overdrive Audio
Print Length: 336 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she's in final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to her.


*** Carved in Bone (Body Farm Book 1) by Jefferson Bass [Dazrin, JSWolf, BenG]
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo US / Overdrive
Print Length: pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.

A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave's chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.

The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that's clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman's corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county's powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton's investigation altogether. So do Brockton's other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.

Carved in Bone is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.


*** Open Season by C.J. Box [BenG, GA Russell, JSWolf]
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US
Print Length: 316 pages
Spoiler:
From Publishers Weekly:

Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the first in a series introducing Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, should immediately make him a contender for best first novel or even best novel awards. Young Joe is struggling to fill the shoes of his mentor, legendary Vern Dunnegan, as warden of Twelve Sleep County, and trying to support his wife and growing family on the meager salary he makes. The hours are long, the work hard but satisfying, and Joe's honesty and integrity would pay off if he could avoid "bonehead moves" like ticketing the governor of the state for fishing without a license, for instance, or allowing a poacher to grab Joe's firearm from him. When that very same poacher turns up dead and bloodied in Joe's woodpile with only a cooler containing unidentified animal scat, his life, livelihood and family will never be the same. Upping the excitement are a couple of murders, local political and bureaucratic intrigue, a high-stakes pipeline scheme and an endangered species that Joe's eldest daughter "discovers." No one has done a better job of portraying the odd combination of hardy and foolhardy folk that make their homes in Wyoming's wilderness areas, or of describing the dichotomy between those who want to develop the area and those who want to preserve it. Without resorting to simplistic blacks and whites, Box fuses ecological themes, vibrant descriptions of Wyoming's wonders and peculiarities, and fully fleshed characters into a debut of riveting tensions. Meet Joe Pickett: he's going to be a mystery star.


*** The Boy In The Suitcase (Nina Borg #1) by Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis [WT Sharpe, Dazrin, CRussel]
Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US / Overdrive
Print Length: 321 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.


*** The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth [din155, CRussel, Grey Ram]
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Kobo UK/ Overdrive v1 / Overdrive v2 / Overdrive Audio v1 / Overdrive Audio v2
Print Length: 415 pages
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, grey eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.


Nominations are now closed.

peterwardgd 07-20-2016 05:45 AM
Its been a while since ive been on the site but i still enjoy the book club vote.

Anyway, I'd like to nominate They Don't Dance Much by James Ross.

Its been pigeonholed as Country noir which i guess if i had to shelve it under anything that would be it but its really just good honest pulp. It's a cut above most pulp titles though that are getting a second lease of life in the ebook market. The characterisation in particular is very good i thought.

From Goodreads:

Quote:
In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder

Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs, and everything he owns is mortgaged — even his cow. He has no money, no prospects, and nothing to do but hang around filling stations, wondering where his next drink will come from. As far as hooch goes, there's no place like Smut Milligan's, where Breath of Spring moonshine sells for a dollar a pint.

A bootlegger with an entrepreneurial spirit, Milligan has plans to open a roadhouse, and he asks Jack to run the till. The music will be hot, the liquor cheap, and the clientele rough. But the only thing stronger than Milligan's hooch is his greed, and Jack is slowly drawn into the middle of Smut's dalliances with a married woman, the machinations of corrupt town officials — and a savage act of murder.
Kobo UK

Amazon UK

Luffy 07-20-2016 06:20 AM
I'd like to nominate Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp #11) by Vince Flynn. It can be read as a standalone.

From Goodreads:

Spoiler:
The latest pulse-pounding thriller by #1 "New York Times" bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn explodes onto the scene with a deadly and charismatic hero fans will cheer for all the way to the last riveting page.Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere. Time and again, Flynn has captured the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders.

Now, with Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protegee Mike Nash. Nash has served his government honorably for sixteen years -- first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by none other than Mitch Rapp. He has met violence with extreme violence and has never wavered in his fight against the jihads and their culture of death.

Nash has fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgement of his personal sacrifice. He has been forced to lie to virtually every single person he cares about, including his wife and children, but he has soldiered on with the knowledge that his hard work and lethal tactics has saved thousands of lives. But the one thing he never saw coming was that his own government was about to turn on him.

In "Extreme Measures," Flynn introduces a modern-day patriot -- a hero who loves his country, even when it betrays itself. Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls.Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, "Extreme Measures" is "the" political thriller of our time.


Goodreads

Amazon

Kobo

GA Russell 07-20-2016 06:51 AM
I nominate Fast One by Paul Cain.

This was Cain's only novel. He is considered by some to be the most hard-boiled of writers.

“In the matter of grim hardness Dashiell [Hammett] paused on the threshold. Paul [Cain] went all the way.” —Captain Joe Shaw, editor of Black Mask during its golden era

“[Fast One represents] some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner.” —Raymond Chandler, author, The Big Sleep

Amazon - $4.99
https://www.amazon.com/Fast-One-Paul...dp/B00B132H2O/

Nook - 99 cents
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fast...=2940150605152

Kobo - 99 cents
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/fast-one-2

JSWolf 07-21-2016 11:36 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Luffy (Post 3356294)
I'd like to nominate Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp #11) by Vince Flynn. It can be read as a standalone.
When someone says a book in a series can be read standalone, it usually cannot and in this case given that it's #11, no way it can.

You'd be better off asking for your nomination back and using it for something else.

WT Sharpe 07-21-2016 11:36 AM
I tried to find something cheap, I really did, but this is available at Overdrive both as an ebook and an audiobook, so that's something.

I nominate All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda. This one sounds fascinating. It features reverse chronology in the story-telling, a device used in one of my favorite movies ("Momento") and one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes ("The Betrayal"). Publisher's Weekly says, "Miranda convincingly conjures a haunted setting that serves as a character in its own right, but what really makes this roller-coaster so memorable is her inspired use of reverse chronology, so that each chapter steps further back in time, dramatically shifting the reader’s perspective."

From Goodreads:

Quote:
Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women — a decade apart — told in reverse.

It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards — Day 15 to Day 1 — from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.
Amazon US
Kobo US
Overdrive
Overdrive Audio

JSWolf 07-21-2016 12:19 PM
I'd like to nominate Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein. It's the first book in the Alex Cooper series.

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This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shoking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she'sin final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to her.
Overdrive US: https://www.overdrive.com/media/37702/final-jeopardy
Overdrive Audio: https://www.overdrive.com/media/143681/final-jeopardy
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Jeopard...9111940&sr=1-4
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Jeopa...final+jeopardy
Kobo US: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...nal-jeopardy-2

JSWolf 07-21-2016 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3356993)
I tried to find something cheap, I really did, but this is available at Overdrive both as an ebook and an audiobook, so that's something.

I nominate All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda.
You might want to save this for when the price drops or the lines at Overdrive are not so long. The price is about $12 and the lines at Overdrive are in double digits because it's a new book.

Dazrin 07-21-2016 01:28 PM
The only nomination so far that is available from my library is All the Missing Girls which sounds interesting so I will second it and have put it on my Holds list just in case because there are 4 people in front of me.

I nominate Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass, the first "Body Farm" novel based on Dr. Bill Bass's real-life forensics research.

Available for some at Overdrive and only $5 or £4.

Print length: 416 pages
Goodreads | Overdrive / Amazon US / Amazon UK / Kobo

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There is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. The real-life scientist who founded the "Body Farm" has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics . . . and now he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.

Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment's unique chemistry. But Brockton's investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insular people who won't forget or forgive. And a long-buried secret prematurely exposed could inflame Brockton's own guilt—and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see him fail . . . by any means necessary.

With Fascinating Insider Information on the Body Farm!
There is also a non-fiction companion book, Beyond the Body Farm, if anyone is interested in just the forensics.

JSWolf 07-21-2016 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Dazrin (Post 3357031)
I nominate Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass, the first "Body Farm" novel based on Dr. Bill Bass's real-life forensics research.
I'll second Body Farm.

peterwardgd 07-22-2016 06:43 AM
I'll second Fast one by Paul Cain. I have an omnibus of his that i've only just started which includes this novel so i've no excuse not to read it. Mysterious press ftw!

Luffy 07-22-2016 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3356992)
When someone says a book in a series can be read standalone, it usually cannot and in this case given that it's #11, no way it can.

You'd be better off asking for your nomination back and using it for something else.
If that's the case, then I'll pass, and wait for next month's round, perhaps. I won't be mortally offended if my choice gets omitted.

However, I've read the 3rd Mitch Rapp book, and then this one, the 11th, and I attest, the latter book can easily be read on its own merit.

Luffy 07-22-2016 08:36 AM
i second Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein.

Luffy 07-22-2016 08:38 AM
I third All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda.

BenG 07-22-2016 10:11 AM
I'll third Carved In The Bone and nominate Open Season by C.J. Box.

The first of the novels featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden. It won a slew of awards when it came out [Barry Award for Best First Novel (2002), Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2002), Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2002), Gumshoe Award for Best First Novel (2002), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best First Mystery Novel (0), Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2002)].

Spoiler:
Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the first in a series introducing Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, should immediately make him a contender for best first novel or even best novel awards. Young Joe is struggling to fill the shoes of his mentor, legendary Vern Dunnegan, as warden of Twelve Sleep County, and trying to support his wife and growing family on the meager salary he makes. The hours are long, the work hard but satisfying, and Joe's honesty and integrity would pay off if he could avoid "bonehead moves" like ticketing the governor of the state for fishing without a license, for instance, or allowing a poacher to grab Joe's firearm from him. When that very same poacher turns up dead and bloodied in Joe's woodpile with only a cooler containing unidentified animal scat, his life, livelihood and family will never be the same. Upping the excitement are a couple of murders, local political and bureaucratic intrigue, a high-stakes pipeline scheme and an endangered species that Joe's eldest daughter "discovers." No one has done a better job of portraying the odd combination of hardy and foolhardy folk that make their homes in Wyoming's wilderness areas, or of describing the dichotomy between those who want to develop the area and those who want to preserve it. Without resorting to simplistic blacks and whites, Box fuses ecological themes, vibrant descriptions of Wyoming's wonders and peculiarities, and fully fleshed characters into a debut of riveting tensions. Meet Joe Pickett: he's going to be a mystery star. --From Publishers Weekly


Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00452V3VE...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Season...ywords=c+j+box

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season

Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/media/865667/open-season

JSWolf 07-22-2016 10:52 AM
If a book is available via Overdrive, please link to it. It's much more appealing if it is available via Overdrive.

If you've not linked to Overdrive, please go back and see if you can do so.

WT Sharpe 07-22-2016 12:57 PM
This one looks good. Today only the audiobook is $2.95 at Audible. Nominated. Links to come.

The Boy in the Suitcase: A Nina Borg Mystery by Lene Kaaberbøl.

TODAY ONLY AUDIBLE PRICE $2.95: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Boy-in-the-Suitcase-Audiobook/B00631OLAU (Audible sale over.)


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From Goodreads:

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.
Goodreads
Amazon Au
Amazon Ca
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
Kobo US
Overdrive

GA Russell 07-22-2016 01:11 PM
I second Open Season.

WT Sharpe 07-22-2016 01:35 PM
I have one vote left. Both Open Season and Final Jeopardy are vying for it. One is a 2002 multiple award winner and the other is by someone who has 20 years worth of background as former head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Decisions, decisions. Think I'll wait to see if one gets fully nominated and give my vote to the other.

:popcorn:

CRussel 07-23-2016 02:17 AM
Either of them look somewhat possible, Tom. I still have three votes, but I'm also not feeling terribly motivated this month. Partly work, partly being focused on the new club, and partly just not seeing anything here that gets me excited.

I think I'll hold off for a bit. Maybe something more interesting will get nominated.

GA Russell 07-25-2016 12:28 PM
We have three titles which need a third.

WT Sharpe 07-25-2016 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by GA Russell (Post 3359114)
We have three titles which need a third.
...and nominations end tomorrow night at midnight! :eek:

Dazrin 07-25-2016 02:09 PM
I will second The Boy in the Suitcase and make it 4 options that only need a third. Hopefully someone fills out at least a couple of these, if for no other reason than to give us a larger slate to work with.

Other than the titles I seconded or nominated none of these are available at my library (in e-book form at least). :(

CRussel 07-25-2016 04:00 PM
A third for The Boy in a Suitcase.

CRussel 07-25-2016 04:05 PM
And a third for Fast One -- at least it's a reasonable price. I'm not going for anything that's $10 for the book and another $10 (or more) for the Audible version. At least not this month.

din155 07-25-2016 04:47 PM
I want to nominate The Day Of The Jackal by by Frederick Forsyth. I have not read this book and has been in my tbr for a long time and have heard nice things about it.

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It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the O.A.S. to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this latest plot involves a lethal weapon: an assassin of legendary talent.

Known only as The Jackal this remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped, but how do you track a man who exists in name alone?
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GDFQ...I1A69BUA4THZAN

Kobo UK: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-GB/eb...godDt4z8x.oxjg

CRussel 07-25-2016 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by din155 (Post 3359270)
I want to nominate The Day Of The Jackal by by Frederick Forsyth. I have not read this book and has been in my tbr for a long time and have heard nice things about it.
Ouch, $11.99 in the US at Amazon. However, I see that it IS available on Overdrive - two ebook editions:
Overdrive
Overdrive 40th Anniversary Edition

And two Overdrive audio editions:
Overdrive Audio (Simon Prebble)
Overdrive Audio (David Rintoul - may be UK Only)

Given the Overdrive availability, I'll second this.

JSWolf 07-25-2016 08:11 PM
I'll third Open Season.

CRussel 07-26-2016 12:21 PM
Come on, folks. One more third for Day of the Jackal and we can add this classic of the type to our list. I know you've all seen the movie - now, read the actual book! :)

FWIW, I don't think I've ever read this, though I can't imagine how I missed it. This seems like a perfectly good excuse to rectify that. :)

JSWolf 07-26-2016 12:30 PM
Just one more nomination for Final Jeopardy and you can be on your way to reading a really good author. Plus it gives us one more book to choose from.

Grey Ram 07-26-2016 02:51 PM
I'll third Final Jeopardy and The Day of The Jackal, I'm interested in either one of them or some of the others already nominated.

Dazrin 07-26-2016 06:37 PM
Yay! 7 books is a good base to work with for this I think. We have some recent and some classic books. A hard-nosed detective story, an assassination thriller, and some police procedurals. Nice selection I think.

For Carved in Bone, the page count is 416 pages in paperback or 352 in hardcover. I am not sure what format you are using for the print lengths.

WT Sharpe 07-26-2016 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Dazrin (Post 3359942)
Yay! 7 books is a good base to work with for this I think. We have some recent and some classic books. A hard-nosed detective story, an assassination thriller, and some police procedurals. Nice selection I think.

For Carved in Bone, the page count is 416 pages in paperback or 352 in hardcover. I am not sure what format you are using for the print lengths.
I go with whatever Goodreads lists for the ebook or Kindle version. I missed that one, obviously. The number's in now. ;)

WT Sharpe 07-27-2016 12:08 AM
With my last vote I'll second They Don't Dance Much. Still needs a third, and has 42 minutes to get it.

GA Russell 07-27-2016 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3360093)
With my last vote I'll second They Don't Dance Much. Still needs a third, and has 42 minutes to get it.
I third.

WT Sharpe 07-27-2016 01:01 AM
Nominations are now closed.

WT Sharpe 07-27-2016 01:15 AM
The poll has been submitted for your approval.

JSWolf 07-27-2016 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3360017)
I go with whatever Goodreads lists for the ebook or Kindle version. I missed that one, obviously. The number's in now. ;)
Don't go with Goodreads. A lot of the time it's wrong. Especially if there's an eBook edition. The ADE page numbers is what should be used for eBooks.

JSWolf 07-27-2016 04:41 AM
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3360129)
And if we don't approve? :rolleyes:


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