Author Topic: Mystery Corner (Read 148886 times)

marjifay · « **Reply #840 on:** August 09, 2009, 01:03:10 PM »

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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

If you like suspenseful thrillers, Frybabe, you'll love Coben's TELL NO ONE. The sinister people in the story are really scary -- especially Eric Wu! According to Interenet Movie Database, it was made into a 2006 French movie and got a good rating, 7.6/10.

Marj

pedln · « **Reply #841 on:** August 09, 2009, 04:08:52 PM »

Just glancing at the Washington Post Book Section (Sunday) while visiting family here in DC. There's a blurb about Marcia Talley reading from her new Hannah Ives mystery -- Without a Grave. That's another unfamiliar name for me. Has anyone read her?

JoanK · « **Reply #842 on:** August 09, 2009, 09:04:36 PM »

I hadn't heard of her. But according to Fantastic Fiction, "Without a Grave" is the 8th in the Hannah Ives series.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/marcia-talley/

Does she write about the Chesapeake Bay? That's a very interesting locale.

Steph · « **Reply #843 on:** August 10, 2009, 08:29:53 AM »

Hmm. could Hannah Ives be the small series I have read about a women who has recovered from cancer and is trying to change her life.. She investigates mysteries.. It iwas good and I just flatout cannot remember the name. Definitely Eastern shore around Annapolis.

FlaJean · « **Reply #844 on:** August 10, 2009, 12:03:36 PM »

The Hannah Ives series by Marcia Talley sounds really interesting. Thanks for the Fantastic Fiction URL about them. I'm definitely going to check my library for them.

JoanK · « **Reply #845 on:** August 10, 2009, 01:28:00 PM »

As a cancer survivor, that appeals to me, too. I may have read one once: it sounds familiar.

Steph · « **Reply #846 on:** August 11, 2009, 08:46:58 AM »

I am staggering through the Swan book by James Lee Burke.. Too much Clete thus far. I dont like Clete. Too crazy by far.

JoanK · « **Reply #847 on:** August 11, 2009, 03:28:08 PM »

My local library doesn't have any Marcia Talley on the shelf. I'll see if the main branch does.

mrssherlock · « **Reply #848 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:38:49 PM »

Joan: Does your library have an online service? Salem Library is associated with about 15 or 20 other libraries in the area and I ca request a book from anyone of them. Makes it nice and easy when the books arrive I get an email and then I have 2 weeks to pick them up. Catalog is online.

Steph · « **Reply #849 on:** August 12, 2009, 07:44:52 AM »

Still working on James Lee.. This book is much more pessimissic than others of his. I would guess that age is causing our author to look at the world with darker and darker eyes.

Babi · « **Reply #850 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:29:38 AM »

STEPH, just reading your posts I can see I wouldn't stick with James Lee Burke.
I hope it has sufficient redeeming value to make it worth your time. Now that
I'm older, I refuse to waste my valuable remaining reading time on anything
I'm not enjoying.

JoanK · « **Reply #851 on:** August 12, 2009, 03:00:58 PM »

In my area, there are city libraries, county libaries, state libraries. Since a branch of the Torrance City Library is a block from where I live, that's where I go. They are linked online to the main city library, which usually has everything. But not in this case.

Babi · « **Reply #852 on:** August 13, 2009, 08:23:34 AM »

I'm now reading the second of the Jonathan Bass books, "Flesh and Bone".
MY thanks to whomever recommended this pair of authors.

Steph · « **Reply #853 on:** August 13, 2009, 08:32:49 AM »

Ah, but you see James Lee Burke is an incredible writer. He makes you feel as if you were there. His characters are odd.. violent..and incredibly tender at the same time. I am always compelled to read him. I understand his dispair.. and his lead was in Viet Nam which makes his violence,dispair and grief easy to understand.

maryz · « **Reply #854 on:** August 13, 2009, 10:13:59 AM »

Babi, I think you're talking about Jefferson Bass - great fun, aren't they.

mrssherlock · « **Reply #855 on:** August 13, 2009, 12:36:55 PM »

Nature (PBS) recently had a program dedicated to the Crime Scene Creatures who help in investigations of deaths. I was surprised at the extent of research such as the Bass' body farm all over the world. He was included in the specialists since he is the pioneer and has the most data. The premise of the show was to investigate a death with a pig carcase standing in for the victim. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/crime-scene-creatures/introduction/301/

Frybabe · « **Reply #856 on:** August 13, 2009, 11:26:10 PM »

Okay, gang, I finished Tell No One. Excellent. The ending surprised me. Did anyone else feel the good Dr. let us down? Was he really much better than the bad guys in the end?

Babi · « **Reply #857 on:** August 14, 2009, 08:46:56 AM »

Right, MARYZ, 'Jefferson'. It's annoying how often I open my mouth (so to speak) nowadays and the wrong word comes out.

Steph · « **Reply #858 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:02:03 AM »

I hate the know the word, but remember it two hours later syndrome.. Ah well. it is there, just inaccesible that moment.

pedln · « **Reply #859 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:14:01 AM »

I like your way of putting it, Steph -- inaccesible

Thank goodness for Google. At least now one doesn't have to ponder and ponder for two days running. And if I can mentally list the books she wrote, just because I can't remember Willa Cather doesn't mean I'm totally over the hill.

Golden State Poppy · « **Reply #860 on:** August 14, 2009, 11:25:53 AM »

I am reading John Connolly's "The Reapers". I can't totally decide about it. He is an Irishman now living in Ireland and the US. He certainly knows the US underbelly and his character studies are excellent. But there is no one I can identify with.

http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/

JoanK · « **Reply #861 on:** August 14, 2009, 12:44:05 PM »

PEDLIN: "And if I can mentally list the books she wrote, just because I can't remember Willa Cather doesn't mean I'm totally over the hill"

mrssherlock · « **Reply #862 on:** August 14, 2009, 03:54:42 PM »

I prefer to think of it as being at the crest, or peak or summit, where the view is the best After all If 50 is the new 30 then 70 must be the new 40.

Babi · « **Reply #863 on:** August 15, 2009, 08:50:39 AM »

Well, we can try to convince ourselves of that anyway, JACKIE. Meanwhile,
I think of my lapses in recall as 'I have it on file, but the drawer is stuck'.

Steph · « **Reply #864 on:** August 15, 2009, 09:37:54 AM »

Ah, the on file makes good sense to me. I started a book that involved a weight watcher plot with someone killing them off, but the book was so badly written, I gave it up..
I did order a Marcia Talley, I had not read from the bookswap club.. I had read of hers, but this is one I had missed.

Babi · « **Reply #865 on:** August 16, 2009, 08:39:07 AM »

For all you mystery fans, PBS Mystery Masterpiece Theatre is starting the
new Inspector Lewis series tonight. Remember Lewis from the Inspector
Morse series? That's him. Presenting Kenneth Whatley in "Old School Ties".
Check in with us here....http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?topic=707.new#new .... watch the show, and join us in the a.m. to talk
about it.

Steph · « **Reply #866 on:** August 16, 2009, 09:56:07 AM »

Finished Julia Spencer Fleming... "All Mortal Flesh" Somehow I had missed this one and had read the latest and was bewildered by what had happened. I do like her. She writes beautifully and her characters are quite true to life.

JoanK · « **Reply #867 on:** August 16, 2009, 01:50:15 PM »

I second BABI. We had a lot of fun discussing the Agatha Christie series. Now we can analize Insspector Lewis.

JoanK · « **Reply #868 on:** August 16, 2009, 02:01:12 PM »

It looks like it's not on my stations either. Sigh.

FlaJean · « **Reply #869 on:** August 16, 2009, 03:41:17 PM »

Thanks, Babi, for the reminder. We checked last week but they were having a fund raiser.

Babi · « **Reply #870 on:** August 17, 2009, 07:21:34 AM »

I'm up early this morning; been up for a couple of hours. (I'm sure none of
you wake up with aches that won't allow you to go back to sleep.) So..I'm
heading over to the Masterpiece Mystery Theatre discussion to get started on
the discussion of "Old School Ties". Some good acting, IMO.

Steph · « **Reply #871 on:** August 17, 2009, 07:40:16 AM »

Just started on my second book by Lynn Murray.. I like the series.. I also decided to reread HP and the HalfBlood Prince, since that is the new movie..

FlaJean · « **Reply #872 on:** August 17, 2009, 12:19:25 PM »

PBS was still having its fund raiser so the Mystery program wasn't on. (sigh)

JoanK · « **Reply #873 on:** August 17, 2009, 01:58:56 PM »

My PBS the same. Sigh, sigh.

peace42 · « **Reply #874 on:** August 18, 2009, 01:19:33 AM »

just finished Trust No One by Gregg Hurwitz..new author for me..very exciting in a Ludlum/Bourne implausible way! I liked it..liked his writing; descriptive passages are wonderful..he's written several so will have to check out another one...just getting into a Harlen Coben one..do like his writing a lot...started getting e-mails from a site called Stop You're Killing Me..don't know if this is where I heard about it...so many books there..I just want to hide the broom and the dust rag and readreadread

well, actually I kinda hide the broom/dust rag any way...housekeeping is not my strongest suit, which is why I moved to a smaller apartment...still surrounded by boxes but, one box at a time and it will get done...will make lots of changes in this place and want it done "right"...had to go go to the Senior Center today and in the entryway they have free books/magazines so, of course

I was forced to look at the books and, of course

I picked up 3!..will put them in my "winter" pile for when I can't get to the library
off to post on Seniors&Friends...nite everyone..sleep well

Steph · « **Reply #875 on:** August 18, 2009, 08:32:08 AM »

Yes, all of Harlin Coben is excellent. He is quite a good writer. I am reading a Faye Kellerman.. The Mercedes Coffin.. Not as interesting as some of her others.

JoanK · « **Reply #876 on:** August 18, 2009, 02:01:35 PM »

PEACE: I'm with you: both in preferring reading to housework, and in living with boxes once I moved from my house to an apartment. Friends warned me to unpack at once, or I would learn to live with them. They were right. two years later, there are still boxes around.

Frybabe · « **Reply #877 on:** August 18, 2009, 07:02:11 PM »

Your friends are soooo right, JoanK. I moved about 2 years ago, but previous to that, I was over 10yrs in my home with boxes still unpacked. Oh well, it made it easier to pack for this last move.

peace42 · « **Reply #878 on:** August 18, 2009, 07:09:34 PM »

ah, kindred unpacked boxes souls

I did a few more things today but didn't over do...don't want to ruin my reputation! as for housework, well I have a little sign in my kitchen that says "Martha Stewart doesn't live here"!! saw something in one of her magazines that just blew me away which is when I bought the sign..she had a few pages on how to make your own marshmallows!!

no comment necessary!! off to some supper and reading...they DO go together don't they, especially if you live alone as I do. take care all and sleep well and dream about the books there are out there to read

Steph · « **Reply #879 on:** August 19, 2009, 07:48:25 AM »

I have the same Martha Stewart doesnt live here sign.. Mine came because she was making her own wallpaper one time.Whew...
However I hate boxes, so will admit that unpacking to me is a base line. We have moved so many times in our lives. My husband worked for a venture capitol company and they moved us wherever they needed someone to look at and evaluate. Now we are so used to moving that since retirement we have lived in three houses in the past 15 years.. Sort of fun.. not moving to another state, but just around the central florida area.

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