MobileRead Book Club
May 2015 Nominations
Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for May, 2015.
The nominations will run through midnight EST April 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.
Book selection category for May is:
Mystery/Thriller
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) The Case of the Silent Partner by Erle Stanley Gardner
Goodreads |
Amazon Au /
Amazon Ca /
Amazon UK /
Amazon US
(2) Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Amazon US /
Audible /
Kobo US
Spoiler:
This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back.
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions--is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.
Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse--until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
(3) In the Woods by Tana French
No links provided.
Spoiler:
From Booklist:
*Starred Review* Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, land the first big murder case of their police careers: a 12-year-old girl has been murdered in the woods adjacent to a Dublin suburb. Twenty years before, two children disappeared in the same woods, and Ryan was found clinging to a tree trunk, his sneakers filled with blood, unable to tell police anything about what happened to his friends. Ryan, although scarred by his experience, employs all his skills in the search for the killer and in hopes that the investigation will also reveal what happened to his childhood friends. In the Woods is a superior novel about cops, murder, memory, relationships, and modern Ireland. The characters of Ryan and Maddox, as well as a handful of others, are vividly developed in this intelligent and beautifully written first novel, and author French relentlessly builds the psychological pressure on Ryan as the investigation lurches onward under the glare of the tabloid media. Equally striking is the picture of contemporary Ireland, booming economically and fixated on the shabbiest aspects of American popular culture. An outstanding debut and a series to watch for procedural fans.
(4) The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub /
LRF
(5) The Liquidator by John Gardner
Amazon Au /
Amazon Ca /
Amazon UK /
Amazon US
(6) Vanishing Act by Thomas Perry
Amazon US /
Audible/WhisperSync /
Kobo US
(7) A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
Amazon UK /
Amazon US /
Barnes & Noble /
Google Play Au /
Kobo US
(8) The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Amazon US /
Audible /
Kobo US
(9) Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
No links provided.
(10) The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Goodreads |
Amazon Au /
Amazon Ca /
Amazon UK /
Barnes & Noble /
GooglePlay /
Kobo
Nominations are now closed.