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Crime/Mystery Recommendation & Discussion Thread
Posted on 3/20/24 at 11:51 pm
Posted on 3/20/24 at 11:51 pm
First off. Give credit to Sneaky__Sally
Plagiarizing his sci-fi/fantasy thread.
Thank you
After looking for some crime / mystery recommendations, I figure it may be good to have a running thread for people looking for recommendations or discussing some of the series that pop up every few weeks.
We should probably try to mark any spoilers and avoid anything too spoilery when discussing series, but if you haven't read something - just be careful about reading too far.
Some of the stuff I've read and loved include:
Maltese falcon
Gillian Flynn -all of hers
Snowman
Hounds of Baskerville
Dennis Lehane (Gone many gone, mystic river, the drop, shutter island)
And then there where none
Hannibal Lecter 4 books
The girl on the Train
Out
The Devotion of Suspect X
Any must read books I need to add to list?
Currently reading: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran
Plagiarizing his sci-fi/fantasy thread.
Thank you
After looking for some crime / mystery recommendations, I figure it may be good to have a running thread for people looking for recommendations or discussing some of the series that pop up every few weeks.
We should probably try to mark any spoilers and avoid anything too spoilery when discussing series, but if you haven't read something - just be careful about reading too far.
Some of the stuff I've read and loved include:
Maltese falcon
Gillian Flynn -all of hers
Snowman
Hounds of Baskerville
Dennis Lehane (Gone many gone, mystic river, the drop, shutter island)
And then there where none
Hannibal Lecter 4 books
The girl on the Train
Out
The Devotion of Suspect X
Any must read books I need to add to list?
Currently reading: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran
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Posted on 3/21/24 at 5:48 am to lsugorilla
Michael Connelly- Bosch series
John Sandford- Prey series with Lucas Davenport..Virgil Flowers novels are also good
John Sandford- Prey series with Lucas Davenport..Virgil Flowers novels are also good
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:51 am to lsugorilla
The Mask of Dimitrious-Eric Ambler (was a favorite of Alfred Hitchock);
The Talented Mr. Ripley-Patricia Highsmith (a number of these are great and she wrote Strangers on a Train-another Hitchcock reference);
Red Riding Trilogy-David Peace (bad arse television series as well);
The Alienist-Cable Carr (that television series did not live up to the book);
No Country for Old Men-Cormac McCarthy (the movie does the book justice);
Tell No One-Harlen Coben;
The Getaway, The Grifters, or After Dark My Sweet-Jim Thompson;
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd-Agathie Christie (all the Poirot books are great but this one is special).
The Talented Mr. Ripley-Patricia Highsmith (a number of these are great and she wrote Strangers on a Train-another Hitchcock reference);
Red Riding Trilogy-David Peace (bad arse television series as well);
The Alienist-Cable Carr (that television series did not live up to the book);
No Country for Old Men-Cormac McCarthy (the movie does the book justice);
Tell No One-Harlen Coben;
The Getaway, The Grifters, or After Dark My Sweet-Jim Thompson;
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd-Agathie Christie (all the Poirot books are great but this one is special).
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:19 am to lsugorilla
I'm a big fan of the Pendergast series by Preston & Child.
Slowly working my way through Agatha Christie's Poirot novels.
I've got 4 or 5 Bond books by Ian Fleming left. They vary wildly from the movies, but I'm gonna finish them out this year
Slowly working my way through Agatha Christie's Poirot novels.
I've got 4 or 5 Bond books by Ian Fleming left. They vary wildly from the movies, but I'm gonna finish them out this year
Posted on 3/21/24 at 10:54 am to lsugorilla
For a murder mystery with a little bit of mysticism thrown in, you can try The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Posted on 3/21/24 at 11:03 am to SW2SCLA
I envy you on the Bond books. I was 14 when I read them and was transported away into all that shite. It’s not the same now.
To the OP:
I enjoyed the Kathy Reichs Temperance Brennan books (TV show BONES based on this…VERY different). Forensic pathology stuff.
Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent books are excellent. I am currently on the one released last year, then I’m all caught up. She has another character, Sara Linton, who appears in the Grant County series she wrote, and she merges the Grant County world with Will Trent’s world with great results.
Start with Triptych.
Will Trent is a detective The TV show has DEI checkboxes ticked, but it’s tolerable…gonna leave that there. Books are NOT like the show, tho the show uses some good plot and story lines from the books.
Sara Linton is a coroner/doctor.
She even teamed with Lee Child for a Will Trent / Jack Reacher team-up in an entertaining story Cleaning the Gold.
The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child are fun reads.
I also grew up on Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct books. LOVE them, tho they may seem dated now. Good old pound-the-pavement police work in a big city based on New York.
To the OP:
I enjoyed the Kathy Reichs Temperance Brennan books (TV show BONES based on this…VERY different). Forensic pathology stuff.
Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent books are excellent. I am currently on the one released last year, then I’m all caught up. She has another character, Sara Linton, who appears in the Grant County series she wrote, and she merges the Grant County world with Will Trent’s world with great results.
Start with Triptych.
Will Trent is a detective The TV show has DEI checkboxes ticked, but it’s tolerable…gonna leave that there. Books are NOT like the show, tho the show uses some good plot and story lines from the books.
Sara Linton is a coroner/doctor.
She even teamed with Lee Child for a Will Trent / Jack Reacher team-up in an entertaining story Cleaning the Gold.
The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child are fun reads.
I also grew up on Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct books. LOVE them, tho they may seem dated now. Good old pound-the-pavement police work in a big city based on New York.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 11:12 am
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