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[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

I read the following series Sunny & Shadow Mystery series by Claire Donally. I loved this series. The cat reminded me so much about a cat I recently rescued.

Back to the Downward Dog Mystery series by Tracy Weber. A new USB cable solved my problem.

Then I plan on starting Evil Town by John David Bethel. This book is being added to my challenge list. I saw the cover, read the one-liner on the cover, read the description, read about the author and decided that I really needed to read this book.

I will also start reading the first in The Donovan Family by Margaret Watson.

I also have several cozy mysteries on my TBR list that I hope to finished before the end of April.

The Downward Dog Mystery series by Tracy Weber is finished. I really enjoyed the first in this series but I did not enjoy the second or third.

Also finished the first two in The Donovan Family by Margaret Watson. This a a fast fun read. More romance than suspense or mystery.

I have not started Evil Town by John David Bethel yet. I plan on getting the book in the next week or two.

I have several ARC's that were added to my TBR list. To Love A Stranger by Colleen Coble & The Advocate's Daughter by Anthony Franze and several others I cannot find at the moment.

The following books were purchased to finish out my 2016 reading challenge:
The Safety Expert By Doug Richardson
The Romanov Stone By Robert C. Yeager
PORTRAIT OF RAGE By Cynthia H Wise
Too Dark to Sleep By Dianne Gallagher
Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans By Joanne DeMaio

[HarryT]

Just finished "The Terracotta Dog", by Andrea Camilleri, the second book in the "Montelbano" series of crime novels set in Sicily. When a local Mafia boss surrenders to Montelbano he reveals to him the location of a cave containing a weapons cache, but the cave also contains something much stranger: the walled-up remains of a young couple apparently killed during WWII. Can Montelbano solve the mystery? Excellent detective story: I highly recommend this series to any lover of crime fiction.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Do you think you are going to read the sequel, The Gripping Hand?

I doubt it, at the moment, but it depends how much I think it's going to add and how much I end up enjoying this one.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I'm certainly not suggesting that anyone skip the first book . Just that the other two books are (IMHO) considerably better.

Interesting, since I remember when I read it years ago, I decided NOT to read the rest of the series when it came out, based on that first one. I remember being quite disappointed.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Interesting, since I remember when I read it years ago, I decided NOT to read the rest of the series when it came out, based on that first one. I remember being quite disappointed.

I would suggest giving them a go. I thought that the second and third books were a lot better.

[CRussel]

Well, since Red Mars is the Book Club selection for this month, and I scored a copy at the BC Library, I'll probably be re-reading it. We'll see how I feel after that, but I'll definitely keep your suggestion in mind. (Though goodness knows I don't need MORE books to read right now!)

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by CRussel

(Though goodness knows I don't need MORE books to read right now!)

Preaching to the choir...

[Cinisajoy]

I am reading Fault Line by Barry Eisler.

[Hampshire Nanny]

Currently reading Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London) by Ben Aaronovitch and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville. Loving both of them.

[Dngrsone]

Finished Odd Thomas, moving on to Invasion of the Tearling. Next up, maybe one of the freebies for the month, though I did pick up this history of weapons at the library.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Just finished Some Women Won't Wait and Beware the Curves by A.A fair aka Erle Stanley Gardner . Next up - Some Slips Don't Show
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Finished Some Slips Don't Show - A.A fair aka Erle Stanley Gardner . With that, I have 12 more remaining in Bertha Cool/ Dolald Lam series, which I may expect to finish this month. I'm quite anxious to buy the 'D.A. - Doug Selby' series by the same author, but prices on both Amazon and Kobo are high. Will have to search some other publisher, maybe.

For a change of taste, next I'll read Truth, Love & A Little Malice by (Dr.) Khushwant Singh, (1915 - 2014). It is an autobiographical account of India's most renowned, prolific and controversial author and journalist. He has had an amazing and prolific career as a journalist, columnist, editor, author and a member of Parliament. I have read some memoirs and novels by him, and I find his styles as amusing, bantering, mocking, critical, candid, bold and poignant, interwoven into an enjoyable and spellbinding story. This book (a pbook, in fact) is waiting in my TBR since last 2 years.

[MickeyC]

Just finished Off the Grid by C J Box and it was an excellent read, in fact, arguably one of his best.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Which was a good set of stories. I think I like the new editor's choices.

Next up: Asimov's SF, April/May 2016, edited by Sheila Williams

Good. LightSpeed for February also good.

Now reading JAG in Space.

[HarryT]

Just finished "Hour of the Gremlins", by Gordon R. Dickson and Ben Bova, which I bought from Baen in 2002. This contains what would probably today be considered a long-ish short story (the title story, about Gremlins - leprechauns - who want to hitch a ride back to their own planet on a Mars rocket), a novella, "Hour of the Horde" (about a galactic civilisation visiting Earth to get the help of us "barbarians" in combatting an extra-galactic invasion fleet), and a short novel, "Wolfling (about an Earth ambassador to a 100,000-year-old human empire which has just rediscovered Earth as a long-lost colony world slipped back into barbarism). All good, although I enjoyed "Wolfling" most. Highly recommended.

[ReneAZ]

Originally Posted by MickeyC

Just finished Off the Grid by C J Box and it was an excellent read, in fact, arguably one of his best.

Agreed! I love this series. I recently finished it as well and give it high marks. Bad news is now we have to wait a long time for another one!

Currently I'm almost finished "The Last Jihad" by Joel C Rosenberg. It's a real page turner; I'm enjoying it very much. I like it better than his most recent one ("The First Hostage") although that was very good also!

Next up is "The Murder of Mary Russell" by Laurie King. I had stopped reading her Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell books years ago, although I LOVED the earlier ones (up to The Language of Bees and subsequent - awful IMHO), and I wouldn't buy it but I got it from the library. Hopefully it will be more like her earlier books in this series.