Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 910379 times)

Steph · « **Reply #7680 on:** September 26, 2015, 08:57:35 AM »

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Exactly, a new to me source of used books make me smile all day. Reading an Abigail Padgett.. I do love her, but she does not make it easy. her characters are quirky at best, This one is Turtle Boy and I am loving it.

JoanK · « **Reply #7681 on:** September 26, 2015, 05:40:10 PM »

She sounds very interesting! Her books "feature someone suffering from manic depression." and in real life she is an advocate for the mentally ill.

salan · « **Reply #7682 on:** September 26, 2015, 06:35:50 PM »

I just downloaded the first in this series, Steph. Child of Silence. It was free on Kindle.
Sally

Steph · « **Reply #7683 on:** September 27, 2015, 09:15:40 AM »

They are wonderful books, At least the three that feature Bo are. I have just found on Kindle her more current ones and will start on them next. I keep her in my book shelf,, since the first three make me think about how hard it is for some types of mental illness.

JoanK · « **Reply #7684 on:** September 28, 2015, 05:05:40 PM »

For those who like the Grantchester series on PBS: the library had a new one: Sydney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/james-runcie/

An intriguing plot: a man comes to the church demanding sanctuary because he woke up finding his wife dead, and thinks he murdered her. Looking, they can find no trace of the wife or a murder, but the husband insists on staying in prison.

As usual, classical music is involved, which pleases me.

Steph · « **Reply #7685 on:** September 29, 2015, 07:44:26 AM »

That sounds wonderful.Will look for it today.

JoanK · « **Reply #7686 on:** October 05, 2015, 04:51:01 PM »

Reading the latest Anne Perry, The Angel court Affair" (I thought it was the latest: FF tells me it's not. I can't keep up with her)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/anne-perry/

A Spanish "saint" has come to England to preach, and Pitt is assigned to see no harm comes to her, since many find her doctrine heretical. Musings on why and when we kill those we don't agree with.

She's still publishing 2 to 4 books a year, and she's 79! What's wrong with the rest of us?

marjifay · « **Reply #7687 on:** October 06, 2015, 03:02:16 AM »

I just finished Elliott Roosevelt's Murder in the Red Room. I so enjoy the history of the era of FDR and Eleanor in his books. In this one the Roosevelts invite George Patton to talk with them. He was just a Lieutenant Colonel at that time. Very interesting. Patton tells them he believes in reincarnation and knows that he was a soldier (marshal) fighting with Napoleon. He says that he believes that he has been a soldier since mankind emerged and appointed some men soldiers. He goes on to tell them that he was with the Pharaohs, and fought under Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Charlemagne. " My recollection of battles is too vivid and detailed to have been gained from history books," he says. Gave me goosebumps reading this. I will read more of Elliott's mysteries.

Marj

Steph · « **Reply #7688 on:** October 06, 2015, 08:17:46 AM »

I think that Patton did in fact believe he was reincarnated and had always been a soldier.. Hmm, now to figure out where I read that.
This is pack week since I am going home on Sunday,, Sigh. Why do I insist on moving bout 30 or so books each time.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7689 on:** October 06, 2015, 08:59:29 AM »

"Bestselling 'Wallander' Author Henning Mankell Dead At 67
Mankell wrote some 50 novels and numerous plays, selling more than 40 million copies worldwide." I read about this in the morning news. The article said he announced last year that he had cancer. He died in his sleep. I enjoyed his books and the TV movies, although Wallander could often be a depressing character. Good detective stories.

marjifay · « **Reply #7690 on:** October 06, 2015, 10:34:25 AM »

I was sorry to hear that Henning Mankell had died of cancer, although I have yet to read any of his Wallander mystery series. I have heard they were very good, so I put the first one on my library hold list.

Marj

marjifay · « **Reply #7691 on:** October 06, 2015, 10:59:17 AM »

Perhaps, Steph, if you watched the 1970 movie Patton (great film) you heard him say he was sure he'd been a soldier in another life. I enjoyed Bill O'Reilly's Killing Patton, which was supposedly about the theory that someone killed Patton, but was mostly about Patton during WW2. I want to read Carlo D'Este's book, Patton, A Geniuus for War.

Marj

JoanK · « **Reply #7692 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:49:45 PM »

thought Henning Mankell died some years ago. No, I'm clearly wrong:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/henning-mankell/

JoanK · « **Reply #7693 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:01:26 PM »

I didn't know that about Patton. Perhaps I missed "Murder in the Red Room."

Since we're reading about the sinking of the Lusitania, I was remembering the Eliot mystery where Eleanor goes to England in the middle of WWII, in spite of the threat of submarines. Heads of state took that chance fairly often in WWII, and they all were lucky.

She is taken aback by the freezing conditions in the palace: The Queen is setting an example for her people by not wasting fuel. Even the normal temperature of British houses is freezing to us Americans, so I can imagine.

Steph · « **Reply #7694 on:** October 07, 2015, 09:02:22 AM »

I have some english friends and yes, they do keep their houses cold, but I do love that they have a plate warmer and it is in the dining room.. it rolls right up to the table and when you eat dinner, someone pulls each plate out and fills it.. and so the warm food and the warm plate is a delight. They also have heated towel racks, so they like heat in some places.

JoanK · « **Reply #7695 on:** October 08, 2015, 07:15:15 PM »

I love that!

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7696 on:** October 08, 2015, 11:55:57 PM »

Our dgt is always cold, so she gets a lot of cozy/comfy gifts. Her father bought her a towel warmer, she loves it!

Jean

Steph · « **Reply #7697 on:** October 09, 2015, 08:58:46 AM »

I love plate warmers, They add to your dinner and for a long time, i heated my plates in the microwave and then filled them for the two of us.. Alas now, alone, you cannot count on actual plates at dinner if I am in a mood.

JoanK · « **Reply #7698 on:** October 09, 2015, 03:51:52 PM »

Are you going to tell us about the Anne Perry biography?

Steph · « **Reply #7699 on:** October 10, 2015, 09:11:14 AM »

The biography was mainly tedious discussions on every single book she ever wrote and how she is using her writing to think through dark and deep thoughts and noone understands her.. I dont believe a word of it.. They finally tell you how the murder went down.. and how she and her friend were just passionate teens who had crushes on each other,, Dont believe that either. They sluff off any male companionship and she allows as to how she has had boyfriends.. guess who doesnt think so..All in all, I do wonder why the lady wrote it. Those two girls deliberately and maliciously killed the friends mother. Brutally with rocks and lots of blood. They planned it out in advance and served just five years, were then permited to change their names and emigrate out of New Zealand. So.. I wont buy her books.. period.

JoanK · « **Reply #7700 on:** October 10, 2015, 08:44:24 PM »

A lot of people agree with you.

Sorry, I said Australia, when it was New Zealand! I know all New Zealanders hate that, and I'm usually more careful.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #7701 on:** October 10, 2015, 09:31:03 PM »

I not only won't buy her books, I won't even read them.

marjifay · « **Reply #7702 on:** October 11, 2015, 08:39:58 AM »

I am another who cannot read Anne Perry's books since I read of how she and a friend brutely killed the friend's mother.

Marj

Steph · « **Reply #7703 on:** October 13, 2015, 08:59:36 AM »

yes, I don't buy or read.. Now that I am home, I am slowly readjusting.. I get so tired.. being 77 almost 78 sometimes wears me out.

maryz · « **Reply #7704 on:** October 13, 2015, 09:21:43 AM »

Steph, glad you're back home safely. Get rested.

JoanK · « **Reply #7705 on:** October 13, 2015, 04:07:09 PM »

Welcome home STEPH.

JoanK · « **Reply #7706 on:** October 13, 2015, 04:14:44 PM »

Here's something fun: "Bundle of trouble" by Diana Orgain

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/o/diana-orgain/

The narrator has her first baby in the first chapter. As she's coping with new motherhood, there's a murder, and she winds up solving it while nursing her baby and checking periodically that it's still breathing.

funny, and takes me back a few decades!

Steph · « **Reply #7707 on:** October 14, 2015, 09:22:46 AM »

hmm picked up a paperback.. "Knock Off" by Rhonda Pollero.. Supposed to be a mystery, but really it is all about clothes.. and obsessions with food and clothing.. Sad.. probably wont finish it.. I just do not like excuses for mysteries. I like real mysteries.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #7708 on:** October 14, 2015, 12:06:19 PM »

I really enjoy the David Rosenfeld mysteries. I just finished Hounded. Andy Carpenter is a defense atty in Paterson, NJ, which adds to the story for me because I know the area and a good friend of our dgt's is the prosecutor in Passaic County, where Paterson is located. He is also a dog lover as the titles of the books indicate. One client he defended, a wrongfully convicted man, now runs a dog rescue agency. Andy has a self-denigrating wit which is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Rosenfelt_David.html

Jean

Frybabe · « **Reply #7709 on:** October 14, 2015, 12:37:44 PM »

I just returned the Donna Leon book I was reading. I think I am getting tired of Guido, et.al.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7710 on:** October 14, 2015, 01:22:35 PM »

I finished the last of the Deborah Knott series by Margaret Maron. It was good and dwelt more on some things in her family's past. It will be interesting to see what she will write in the future. I read somewhere that she will write about Sigrid. That would make me happy as that series just never felt complete, and i especially liked that series.

JoanK · « **Reply #7711 on:** October 14, 2015, 03:41:10 PM »

JEAN: I loved the beginning books in the Rosenfelt series. Later, he gets involved in conspiracy theories, and they aren't as good IMO.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Rosenfelt_David.html

Steph · « **Reply #7712 on:** October 15, 2015, 09:06:21 AM »

Have not read the last Margaret Maron. I was not a Sigrid fan, so will withold what I will do..If I can just catch up on all of the stuff, will be reading again.

pedln · « **Reply #7713 on:** October 17, 2015, 08:01:13 PM »

Bundle of Trouble sounds like a good one, JoanK. I'll keep my eye out for Diane Orgain bargains. I've really had to restrict myself with the Kindle bargains -- only authors or titles I recognize, and or books on my TBR list. As it is, there's enough now to last until I'm 120.

Today one of Cara Black's Paris neighborhood mysteries was on sale on BookBite or Gorilla, so I snatched it up.

Steph, I prefer Deborah Knott to the Sigrid series, but so far I've liked every Margaret Maron I've read.

Currently reading Scott Turow's Innocent, where Rusty Sabich is on trial for murder -- for the second time. It's been a bit heavy with the romance, but the courtroom scenes are interesting.

Steph · « **Reply #7714 on:** October 18, 2015, 09:41:06 AM »

I found the Diana Orgain on my book swap group. so it is coming..to see how it is..

JoanK · « **Reply #7715 on:** October 18, 2015, 03:59:52 PM »

Let us know how you like it.

Steph · « **Reply #7716 on:** October 19, 2015, 08:46:33 AM »

I have had a somewhat complicated summer, so am looking at this point only at light or funny fiction.. So that sounded just great to me.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7717 on:** October 24, 2015, 04:21:42 PM »

I love the Deborah Knott books best, as well, and by a whole lot. Loved that last book, and feel sad that it was the last. Sweet and funny twist at the very end, particularly in view of the title of the very first book in the series.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #7718 on:** October 24, 2015, 06:13:21 PM »

Hey MaryPage, you're back!!! Are you better now?

Steph · « **Reply #7719 on:** October 25, 2015, 09:14:59 AM »

Am reading..Drinker of Blood by Lynda S. Robinson..no..not a horror, but an Egyptian mystery period type of Nefertiti , husband and the whole era. Excellent.

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