Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 911444 times)

pedln · « **Reply #4360 on:** October 23, 2012, 10:56:35 AM »

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Interesting about the new found Cain book. Amazon has hardback copies and Kindle versions available, and a paperback available for "pre-order," due to be released in July of 2013.

The publisher, Hard Case Crime, has this to say about itself.

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Hard Case Crime is dedicated to reviving the vigor and excitement, the suspense and thrills—the sheer entertainment—of the golden age [WWII -- 1960's] of paperback crime novels, both by bringing back into print the best work of the pulp era and by introducing readers to new work by some of today's most powerful writers and artists. Determined detectives and dangerous women...fortune hunters and vengeance seekers...ingenious criminals and men on the run...Hard Case Crime novels offer everything you want from a great story, all in handsome and affordable editions.

Steph · « **Reply #4361 on:** October 23, 2012, 01:23:58 PM »

Finished the Spencer book.. It had the Grey Man.. Rugar in it. Interesting a professional killer with scruples.. Hmm.

JoanK · « **Reply #4362 on:** October 23, 2012, 03:07:57 PM »

Hard Case crime: Mmmmm. Heaven for the hard-boiled detective fans. How many of us fit in that category?

Steph · « **Reply #4363 on:** October 24, 2012, 09:00:09 AM »

I like some hard case.. some noir.. some female,, a few cozy,, not many reformed romance that insist on plopping a romance in the middle of the plot..

JoanK · « **Reply #4364 on:** October 24, 2012, 03:44:06 PM »

I'll be off the computer all day Thursday, but back Friday.

Steph · « **Reply #4365 on:** October 25, 2012, 10:24:46 AM »

I have found another Sue Ann Jarrarian..She is soo hard tofind and she does make me laugh.

Steph · « **Reply #4366 on:** October 25, 2012, 10:25:20 AM »

darn it all. Jaffarian..

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4367 on:** October 25, 2012, 01:28:12 PM »

Read my first Bones book. It was o.k. for me. I did a lot f skimming the anatomical explanations that didn't seem to add anything to the story, except for those of you who love that stuff

. I do like the character and her relationships w/ her colleagues. I will probably try another just to test whether i want to go on reading her.

marjifay · « **Reply #4368 on:** October 25, 2012, 04:55:35 PM »

Forgive me if I missed something, but what is a Bones book, Jean?

Marj

JoanK · « **Reply #4369 on:** October 25, 2012, 10:31:18 PM »

I took "bones books" to mean the books that the TV series Bones is based on: Cathy Reich's books. Am I right?

Read the last two Jane Langton mysteries that I had missed. they are about the Civil War and it's affect on the soldiers and their families in the Concord area. Instead of her wonderful drawings (which I missed) she has photos of real people from that time (which she gives her character's names to.

Steph · « **Reply #4370 on:** October 26, 2012, 09:04:45 AM »

I have read a lot of Jane Langdon , but not those. Will have to look for them.
Cathy Reichs, I love the books, not fond of the tv show. Very very different people...

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4371 on:** October 26, 2012, 04:36:41 PM »

Yes, Marji and Joan i meant the Reichs books about "Bones". Sorry, i should have given the author's name.

Steph · « **Reply #4372 on:** October 27, 2012, 06:55:23 AM »

I read an article about Kathy Reichs.She says the difference is deliberate. Temperance Brennan in the books is older, has a grown daughter, an ex husband and works half the year in NC and half in Canada. Bones in TV is younger and I believe works in Washington..

Babi · « **Reply #4373 on:** October 27, 2012, 08:42:04 AM »

Yes, at the Smithsonian labs, no less. Which got roped into solving murders by the FBI
because Temperance was at the top of her field in studying bones and telling you what
happened to them.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4374 on:** October 27, 2012, 11:03:02 AM »

I've just started "Brown-eyed Girl" by Virginia Swift. This is the third one of hers i've read, but i think this is the first in the Sally Alder (Mustang Sally) series. I love them, how could i not? A professor of women's history who's also a singer- song writer, three of my top five loves and all those subjects are talked about in the book!

JoanK · « **Reply #4375 on:** October 27, 2012, 04:53:52 PM »

Sounds like a winner! I promised I wouldn't buy any more mysteries til I had read (or decided not to read) all the ones I have, but I'll definately get a sample.

Steph · « **Reply #4376 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:38:12 AM »

I love Virginia Swift and have read all of that series.. She is good.. and since I am ignorant of Wyoming and its customs,,an eye opener for me.

Babi · « **Reply #4377 on:** October 28, 2012, 09:25:51 AM »

Virginia Swift is an entirely new name to me. Sounds good, tho', so I'll add her to my list.

Steph · « **Reply #4378 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:52:24 AM »

Sally is a former wild woman who is now a college professor. I love the series. quite small though. Did she write anything else?

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4379 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:56:40 AM »

Brown-eyed Girl just keeps getting more and more interesting: skinhead militia in Wyoming, academic freedom, escapees from Nazi France. Sounds confusing but Swift fits it all in the story very nicely. I like her writing very much.

She has only 4 mysteries as Virginia Swift, but she has a few nonfiction under the name Virginia Scharff.

http://www.virginiascharff.com/virginia.php

Steph · « **Reply #4380 on:** October 30, 2012, 09:04:07 AM »

Thanks for the name.. I did not know she was not using her real name for the mysteries. But then I think she is a college teacher..So they tend to get shy about light novels.

Babi · « **Reply #4381 on:** October 30, 2012, 09:07:38 AM »

Hmm,....more and more intriguing. The book on Jefferson sounds very interesting. It's
easy to see how much you have in common with Virginia Swift/Scharf, JEAN.

Steph · « **Reply #4382 on:** October 31, 2012, 06:11:02 AM »

I really want and will pput on my Christmas list..The women Jefferson loved. Sounds interesting.He is one of those people who has always intrigued me.The other books on my list this year tend to be around Julia Child, since there is quite a lot new out there.

Babi · « **Reply #4383 on:** November 02, 2012, 09:07:13 AM »

I posted this in the Library, but it really belongs here.
I'm reading a light mystery, the latest of the Mrs. Jeffries series. I'll be alternating that
one with a book called "The Seven Wonders, a Novel of the Ancient World". The lead
character is a young man of eighteen, who is about to begin the journey of a lifetime. He
will visit the Seven Wonders of the World, and at each of them encounter a mystery.
The author is Stephen Saylor. He has apparently written a number of novels set in the
Roman empire. Looks very promising.

Steph · « **Reply #4384 on:** November 02, 2012, 11:43:53 AM »

I like Stephen Saylor books, so will look for it.

JoanK · « **Reply #4385 on:** November 02, 2012, 03:57:24 PM »

He has apparently written a lot of mysteries:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/steven-saylor/

MaryPage · « **Reply #4386 on:** November 02, 2012, 05:46:16 PM »

One of my sons gave me a bunch of Saylor books. Have not had time to read one yet, but have them to look forward to. Rob raves about him.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4387 on:** November 02, 2012, 10:03:02 PM »

I finished Brown-eyed Girl and LOVED it. It finished with a lot of twists and turns in the story. I'm going to look for the other two Swift books i haven't read and i'm going to try to find the non-fiction of Virginia Scharff.

Steph · « **Reply #4388 on:** November 03, 2012, 06:24:00 AM »

I think there are four Mustang Sally books. EAch very interesting and quite different from each other. Good luck. I loved them
Barb: is there some way to go into Zillow and change a mistake. They have me listed as two bedrooms and I am three.

marjifay · « **Reply #4389 on:** November 08, 2012, 08:27:05 AM »

I don't read nor care for most cozy mysteries. But I love the titles of some of them. Someone in another group mentioned two titles that made me laugh:

HEARSE AND BUGGY by Laura Bradford
FRANKLY MY DEAR, I'M DEAD by Livia J. Washburn

That last one I'm going to have to read, just because of the title.

Marj

Babi · « **Reply #4390 on:** November 08, 2012, 08:38:57 AM »

Would you believe this if it appeared in a mystery novel? Well, it happened.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/crime-writer-nancy-mancuso-gelber_n_2089687.html

JoanK · « **Reply #4391 on:** November 08, 2012, 09:21:39 PM »

Amazing!

Steph · « **Reply #4392 on:** November 09, 2012, 06:07:24 AM »

Reading the latest Donna Andrews. Great fun.. A cozy but one that is neat. Our detective has just had twin boys and it is fun to watch her grow and put her foot down, where the children are concerned. A barn full of the animals from the local shelter lends itself to some funny mental pictures.. i.e. Three teeny kittens using the local police chief as their climbing wall and him watching them..

Babi · « **Reply #4393 on:** November 09, 2012, 09:03:58 AM »

I thought she had those twins earlier, STEPH. I recently read her latest, which was "Some
Like it Hawk", and I believe the twins were already toddlers.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4394 on:** November 09, 2012, 01:41:44 PM »

I mentioned many months ago that i was going to read mysteries set in NJ and Pa, just to have some restriction of choices. I haven't stuck to that resolve very well, but i recently picked up Robin Hathaway's Sleight of Hand, set in South Jersey. Terrible! She makes mistakes about the area's geography, about other simple things, like saying her character paid the toll when she got ON the NJ Tpk, which seems insignificant, but anyone who has ever gotten on a turnpike knows you pay the toll getting off of it??? I read one whole chapter and asked myself "why is this chapter in this story? " There are actions by the characters that have no explanation as to why. No more Hathaway!

JoanK · « **Reply #4395 on:** November 09, 2012, 02:41:24 PM »

Got a sample of "Some Like it Hawk".

Got the newest Parnell Hall "Crossword Puzzle Lady" ($10,000 in unmarked Puzzles") book from the library. Big mistake! No way am I going to solve the puzzles in a library book, my copier isn't working. Without being able to solve the puzzles, the book's lost it's zing. Gurss I'll have to buy it.

Usually, our former seniornetter, Manny Novotsky, does the puzzles for these books. this time, it's done by someone else. Wonder if he's alright. Does anyone know?

JoanK · « **Reply #4396 on:** November 09, 2012, 02:44:31 PM »

But I am enjoying the latest Chris Nickson "The Constant Lovers". His detective is the Constable of Leeds in the 1700s. Interesting characters and setting.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4397 on:** November 09, 2012, 03:38:45 PM »

In the Aunt Dimity series, Aunt Dimity's goddaughter has twin boys.

Steph · « **Reply #4398 on:** November 10, 2012, 06:02:52 AM »

I am reading the book before the Hawk book.. on the macaws.. The twins are four months old and Meg has grown up a lot.. She does not plunge in so fast and the sheriff is becoming more of a character.. I like the growing up bit.

Babi · « **Reply #4399 on:** November 10, 2012, 09:45:13 AM »

" Gurss I'll have to buy it." How well that expresses the annoyance, JOAN.

Nothing like a couple of kids to curb ones impetuosity, right, STEPH?

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