Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

The new Washington Poe book by MW Craven,  Dead Ground and the new Bruno Chief of Police novel by Martin Walker, The Coldest Case. 

Thanks to the heat last week I managed to get more reading than usual in and finished both of these books. Enjoyed the Craven book a lot more than the Walker one.

I'm sure Nellie will enjoy reading the Poe book when he gets his hands on it.

I'm sure I will, but my library is stuffed to the bills at the moment with books that I haven't had time to read. At the moment enjoying the 6th of Caro Ramsay's Anderson and Costello series.

Just ordered the first one from the library so will let you know how I get on with it when it finally arrives.

To get into the series you will have to read more than the first one, it's more then a scene setter, but a little different from a series opener.

I've just started Laidlaw by William McIlvanney, whose books I've been looking to read for a while. He is regarded as "the father of Tartan Noir" . I found this and the second in the series in a Book Swap Kiosk so Old Brampton.

I took the trouble of ordering the second in the series at the same time and blaming you if I'm wasting my allocation.

Just finished reading The Fens by Francis Pryor, about his life as an archaeologist and lots of history and chat about an area he loves, an enjoyable read. Now started Alan Duncan's political diaries, getting into the Brexit bit and lots of very observant comments about various politicians!

very observant comments about various politicians!

I can imagine that Sounds like my sort of book!!!

David

The latest DI Nick Dixon Kindle book by Damien Boyd is in Amazon Deals today for 99p

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Just finished a book by a new author to me, Sarah Hilary called "Someone Else's Skin". Very accomplished first book, written about 6 years ago. I've got the second one on order.

Started reading Nellie's recommendation of Caro Ramsay and have the second one to follow on as well as having to pick up The Trawlerman by William Shaw from the library.

Also just finished a book about London in 1665/1666 which tells the tale of the lives of those who lived and sometimes died through the Plague and the Great Fire. More interesting than it sounds as it was factual.

Mrs WN mentioned that Michael Connelly's book The Late Show was on offer for a limited time on Kindle. Don't know if it still applies.

I am normally a great fan of Michael Connolly and have recently read the book The Night Fire which is the second book in the Renee Ballard series, The Late Show being the first. I found the book to be disappointing.

Unsure if it was me who was out of step, I read the reviews on Amazon and found many others who also thought it was far below par. I have similarly checked the reviews of |The Night Fire and again the reviews are poor. 

Similarly as a avid reader of Lee Childs early books which started off excellently, there has been a steady decline over the years and one of his latest offerings Blue Moon is best described as trash.