Mystery Corner

[Steph]

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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!

Links:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Our Favorite Old Mystery Writers
Fantastic Fiction
Stop You're Killing Me

Discussion Leaders:    BillH and JoanK   

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I spent 10 years just north of Boston in Bedford, Ma.. Yes, the cabs routes are quite clear and work.. Great fun to explore the differeent places that Carlotta goes.

[FlaJean]

YEs, I've read all of Leon's books!

[Steph]

I hav e never been able to finish a Donna Leon book. Just does not grab me. Everyone loves them.. sigh.

[Babi]

 I'll line up on your side, STEPH. I can't really stir up any enthusiasm about Bruno.
   I'm currently reading "Language of the Bees", one of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series.  It is serving as an alternate, relaxing change
of pace while reading the non-fiction "The Woman Who Defied Kings".

[pedln]

Different strokes for different folks.  I really enjoy Donna Leon's books.  Still have lots of hers left to read.

Now I'm reading my first Laura Lippman, for my f2f group -- The Power of Three -- about a shooting at a high school.  I'm assuming Lippman's works are stand alones -- not a series? This is one that is hard to put down.  It's kind of trendy, lots of references to popular culture, but the author is right on in many of her assessments --  shown in small asides of both people and things. An example, one character, daughter of a farmer, thinks about the farming families she knows and realizes that not one of them does only farming for a living.  This really has nothing to do with the focus of the story, but is just an example of background that Lippman includes.

Judy Laird -- I'm glad to see you here.  How is life at Fairwinds treating you?

[Johanz4]

Yes, I love Shirley Rousseau Murphy books also. always check for new ones.  my library has an odd way of stocking new books. unless the title says somewhere a mystery, they stock them in novels or such.  the section labeled mysteries contain older books but i check them anyway.  the large print section i check out first. easy on the eyes.

i read some other books on talking cats, can't remember the author.  if i come across it i will post it.

i find it easier to just check out the shelves rather than look for a certain author.  i never could find some of the authors we listed on the old seniornet so now i don't waste time, check everything.

tomorrow i go to the library and hope for the best.

has anyone read A. C. McKevett books.  i enjoy them mostly about baking with recipes.  i guess you call them the cozy type but i find them enjoyable.  relaxing.

    JO

[Johanz4]

ove the weekend, i wondered now that we hav e a new site, is there any thought to another trip.  i could not make the one in NYC but if another is planned, i would attend.

perhaps another location?  what are your thoughts.?

     JOhanz   

[mabel1015j]

Steph - was the actress you were thinking of who plays Brooklyn characters Marisa Tomei? .......something made me think of her today and i tho't maybe she was the person you were thinking of................jean

[Steph]

Yes,,, Marisa is the one. She is so perfect for a Jersey girl..
Laura Lippman.. writes two different types. She has stand alones and then she does a series on Tess ( last name slips me).She was once a reporter for the paper, but now does p.i. work. They are quite different. I like both, but am not overfond of Tess's boyfriends. The series should be read in order.

[JoanK]

I like Laura Lippman, too. Especially the Tess Moynahan books. Fantastic fiction doesn't list a new one coming out, only a republishing of an old one.

I agree they should be read in oprder if possible. FF gives the order below:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/laura-lippman/

The first one is "Baltimore Blues". Her books are full of Baltimore: she obviously has a deep love for the city and the Maryland countryside. Although I lived in Maryland for years, I rarely visited Baltimore. But it definately has something. Everyone I ever met who was from there loved it. And every Baltimore writer that I know of, celebrates the city in his writing. (I don't know about Edgar Allen Poe; Baltimore claims him because he died and is buried there, but he wasn't really a Baltimore writer. But Matthew Pearl's detective story about Poe is a brilliant picture of Baltimore before the Civil War).

[BooksAdmin]

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