Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 910448 times)

Steph · « **Reply #7560 on:** August 09, 2015, 09:12:10 AM »

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Pull up a comfortable chair and join us here to talk about mysteries and their authors.
We love hearing what YOU enjoy and recommend!

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Discussion Leader: JoanK

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Wow... all of a sudden today, I have huge print..nothing I did, but oh my..
Denise Mina , no I tried her, but she made Glasgow sound so very unpleasant. The Gordimer is extremely odd at this point.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7561 on:** August 09, 2015, 08:00:01 PM »

Thanks for the clarification Joan.

I got Estelle Ryans's The Dante Connection, the second in the Genevieve Lenard series. The ebook was 2.99 at Amazon. I don't generally pay for ebooks, but my library doesn't have either e or hardcopy versions. I really liked the Gauguin Connection, so i was willing to pay all of 3 dollars for it. 😀

Jean

Steph · « **Reply #7562 on:** August 10, 2015, 09:05:08 AM »

I love this series and have it all on Kindle..

MaryPage · « **Reply #7563 on:** August 11, 2015, 09:49:13 AM »

I love it, too. Have only read the first one so far, and that one some time back, but I have all of the others other than the latest one waiting for my delight. I gave the whole set to a dear friend and family member for her 70th birthday recently. Well, last December, actually.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #7564 on:** August 11, 2015, 03:47:17 PM »

Last call for you to share how you found SeniorLearn and what book you started discussing with us, as a friend of SeniorLearn - tonight is the last - going, going, gone of this set of memory minders as we build our legacy page of who we were and who we are in 2015

So like Ratty and Mole, pull up your chair and post your memories - tomorrow, Wednesday, August 12 we have another set of questions to help us build our history using your individual experiences.

salan · « **Reply #7565 on:** August 11, 2015, 04:33:19 PM »

I have also started The Dante Connection. I really enjoyed the first (free on my Kindle), so I purchased this one and plan on getting the others. My library doesn't have any of this series'; so I will purchase them on my kindle.
Sally

JoanK · « **Reply #7566 on:** August 11, 2015, 08:58:27 PM »

I've read a couple and still like them.

Steph · « **Reply #7567 on:** August 12, 2015, 08:52:56 AM »

They are fun and give me insight into my grandsons mind, since he has
asburgers.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7568 on:** August 16, 2015, 12:13:19 PM »

Finished Cry of the Children by JM Gregson. I thought at first it was going to be the usual hum drum, but it veered off into another direction and was interesting. I like the duo of Lambert and Hook detectives. Now reading Bleeding Heart by Christopher Fowler. Another interesting and well written police procedural (only this detective defies the word procedure).

JoanK · « **Reply #7569 on:** August 16, 2015, 04:15:42 PM »

Here's Christopher Fowler:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/christopher-fowler/

I've read some of his, and Bryant and May are indeed anti-proceedural.

JoanK · « **Reply #7570 on:** August 16, 2015, 04:19:36 PM »

And I'm sure I've read some gregson, but cant remember what.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/j-m-gregson/

JoanK · « **Reply #7571 on:** August 16, 2015, 04:24:04 PM »

Note: on these fantastic fiction author pages I post, you can click on a particular book and get a book jacket type summary of the plot, to decide if you want to read it. I don't know why I always post a link to the author, rather than to the particular book mentioned. Maybe because, in reading a new author, I start with the first book in the series if possible.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7572 on:** August 16, 2015, 04:29:44 PM »

Joan - I've been led to many authors and books by you posting Fantastic Fiction link. Thank you!

JoanK · « **Reply #7573 on:** August 16, 2015, 05:02:26 PM »

FlaJean · « **Reply #7574 on:** August 16, 2015, 05:52:02 PM »

I like the fact that you give a link to the author. That way I see all the books listed. I don't know why, but I forget about the Fantastic Fiction link.

Steph · « **Reply #7575 on:** August 17, 2015, 08:47:36 AM »

So do I.. Then I start to stack up the new guys on my Kindle and have discovered, books in person are easier to keep track of. They haunt me as I move around the house.

JoanK · « **Reply #7576 on:** August 17, 2015, 03:33:50 PM »

Good. I'll keep doing it then.

JoanK · « **Reply #7577 on:** August 17, 2015, 03:49:46 PM »

Reading books by Marti Green. her narrator is a lawyer for the Helping Innocent Prisoners Project. If she is convinced a prisoner is really innocent, they try to find evidence to prove it. Many of their cases involve using DNA evidence in cases decided before that was widely available. I understand this is actually being done, although I don't know by whom. But of course, the cases that form the main plots are more complicated than that.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/marti-green/

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7578 on:** August 17, 2015, 06:16:31 PM »

Joan - you may be thinking about The Innocence Project. It's done wonderful work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project

This is their website

http://www.innocenceproject.org

Jean

FlaJean · « **Reply #7579 on:** August 17, 2015, 08:44:37 PM »

I see Marti Green lives in my area of the country. Her books look interesting. Will check my local library. Maybe they will have at least one of the three.

Steph · « **Reply #7580 on:** August 18, 2015, 07:57:32 AM »

I have heard of The Innocence Project.. and think it is quite active in Florida..

JoanK · « **Reply #7581 on:** August 18, 2015, 04:05:22 PM »

That's good to know.

Steph · « **Reply #7582 on:** August 19, 2015, 08:35:39 AM »

Florida still has a whole lot of people on death row and at least some of them do not deserve to be there. Mostly black and poor and unedeucated..

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7583 on:** August 19, 2015, 11:55:58 AM »

I am enjoying Estelle Ryan's The Dante Connection so much that I'm deliberately reading other books at the same time so Dante doesn't end too quickly.

Steph · « **Reply #7584 on:** August 20, 2015, 08:42:11 AM »

Hah, we have all fallen in love with Estelle Ryan.. She does have a facebook page as well.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7585 on:** August 20, 2015, 10:05:54 AM »

I, too, am just about finished with The Dante Connection. I am tempted mightily to go on with all of the others, which I have standing in proper order on a bookshelf in my bathroom, of all places! But I make myself switch around amongst all I have on hand, and since Margaret Maron's last Deborah Knott arrived this week, I shall indulge in that next.

I think the thing you cannot help but adore about Ryan is that the action goes so fast and the people are so clever and talented. I love all of the references, and I look up every one of them, art and music. I looked up Strasbourg, France, as well, of course, with the last book, and read up on it. Google Imaging it brought on a huge desire to go there. When the first painting came up, the "Beata Beatrix" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in this book, I Google Imaged it and printed it out (I have a very large all color printer) and folded it twice and have been using it for my bookmark ever since. I did NOT print out the Sargent, because in looking that one up I found I hated it. When I pass The Dante Connection on to my granddaughter Paige this week, I will leave that picture in the book. She has a doctorate in Art History, so she loves the books, as well and all, and cannot wait for me to send them on.

JoanK · « **Reply #7586 on:** August 20, 2015, 05:37:13 PM »

Yes, there's so much to them, but they are also action packed. A little bit of everything.

I've had the latest Donna Andrews on my TBR pile forever, and keep not reading it. I think I'm donna Andrews-ed out!

Steph · « **Reply #7587 on:** August 21, 2015, 09:01:31 AM »

Yes, Donna is limiting herself a biit and I did not enjoy the last one as much as some of the others.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7588 on:** August 21, 2015, 11:40:15 AM »

I'm reading Albert's new China Bayles mystery Bittersweet. She has introduced a new and interesting character, a female park ranger. So far it is interesting and I always learn something new when reading this particular series. I enjoy the way she starts each chapter with information about herbs and spices.

salan · « **Reply #7589 on:** August 21, 2015, 07:40:01 PM »

I just finished The Dante Connection and immediately ordered the next in the series. I have read the first 2 and reallly enjoyed them. However, I think I will wait awhile before starting book 3. Whew, I need to rest!
Sally

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7590 on:** August 22, 2015, 12:43:53 AM »

I'm with you Sally. Not because I wouldn't like to jump into the next "Connection" book, but I've got some other books i am in the middle of. I must be disciplined enough to finish them then I'll jump on The Braque Connection. I have been disappointed in several of the books I've gotten free from bookbub/amazon, but being introduced to the Connection series has made up for all those bad ones. 😃😃 I'm willing to pay for the rest of the series.

One of those i've started is the new Janet Evanovich series - the Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare series. O'Hare is an FBI agent who caught Nick Fox, a very outlandish conman and thief - not unlike, but more grandiose than Colin in the Connection series. The FBI decided his skills were too good not to use, also like Colin. I'm on my third one of those and am liking them very much also. My goodness, such an abundance of riches!

Jean

Steph · « **Reply #7591 on:** August 22, 2015, 08:55:07 AM »

Hmm, I read one of the new Evanovich, but just could not get into it, so have not tried the next ones..Estelle Ryan,, how wonderful it was to find her and the Art series. Having an Asburgers grandson makes me pay attention to her and how she reacts , because my Connor reacts in many ways just like the lead.. Good writer who blooomed first(I think) on ebooks.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7592 on:** August 22, 2015, 06:22:02 PM »

Steph, I do not see an email address listed for you, and, with 2 autistic great grandsons, I would sort of like to correspond with you regarding our mutual experiences with that and other things. If you have one (an email address), and if you care to, would you contact me at marypage29@comcast.net or call me at (410) 295-0016

If you would really rather not, I completely understand. Honestly. MP

Steph · « **Reply #7593 on:** August 23, 2015, 09:07:09 AM »

not a problem, thought is was on my information stuff, but possibly not..As I remember on Seniornet, some of us had problems with a demented man who was trying to prove that he could save all womankind and was the reason for shutting down our
For Women only site.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7594 on:** August 23, 2015, 10:14:00 PM »

Funny! Save us from what, exactly? No, on second thought, don't enlighten me.

And thank you for the email address.

Well, I have finished The Dante Connection, and enjoyed it immensely. Am going to exercise some self discipline and make myself read through a pile of magazines before I start Margaret Maron's "Long Upon The Land." I hate it when I slip into falling behind with Time and The New Yorker and National Geographic and Bookmarks and Vanity Fair and others. There are FIVE (5) more books in the Connection series on a shelf waiting for me.

Steph · « **Reply #7595 on:** August 24, 2015, 08:52:11 AM »

Funny, yesterday I looked at the tv thing in the sunday paper.. I loved a YA series by Cassandra Clare,, sort of fantasy and fun.. Theymade a movie of the first book. Since it was a large book and the beginning of a whole series, they took the book apart and used part of it and took out a lot of characters. But I still enjoyed every minute even though the hero Jase.. was a Brit and a bit wimpy looking.. First movie on TV I have seen in such a long long time.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7596 on:** August 24, 2015, 10:21:55 AM »

What was the name of it, Steph? I'd like to keep an eye out for it.

Frybabe · « **Reply #7597 on:** August 24, 2015, 11:38:30 AM »

Mortal Instruments:City of Bones was made into a movie, MaryPage. Cassandra Clare is very popular with both the YA and adult crowd.

I am back to reading another Donna Leon. I wonder if her take on the bribery, incompetence, and indifference of the Italian officials, including the police, is exaggerated or fairly accurate. At least, so far in this one, I haven't run across any snide comments about Americans in this book.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7598 on:** August 24, 2015, 12:24:41 PM »

Hallmark Channel had a marathon of the Jesse Stone movies yesterday. I couldn't sit through them all, but i dropped in and out through the day. I haven't read any of the books, but may put them on my ever growing TBR list.

Jean

JoanK · « **Reply #7599 on:** August 24, 2015, 03:37:05 PM »

JEAN: I try not to read two books by the same author in a row, for fear I will get tired of them. It's really hard sometimes. And with by bad memory, that means I sometimes lose track of authors I like.

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Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 910448 times)