[OT] New favorite authors

DGD gave me a lovely package of goodies for Christmas including some fabulous smelling gourmet coffee beans, a new out-sized cup for my morning mocha, and two books:

"The Cater Street Hangman" by Anne Perry "Murder on Monday" by Lois Meade

Both are of the English murder mystery genre, my favorite type of light reading. Happily, each author has been prolific and I am looking forward to many delightful hours of reading over the next couple of years. I started "The Cater Street Hangman" yesterday afternoon while awaiting the telephone repair person, and couldn't put it down. Terrific, great characters, clever plot. Usually I read for 20-30 minutes each night just before dozing off, but I read this one straight through to 2:00AM, I just had to find out whodunnit.

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BEI Design
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I'll look out for them. I find that sort of reading the perfect antidote to difficult sewing and sleepless nights. Have you tried Catherine Aird?

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Kate XXXXXX

My dearly beloved is an avid reader, getting through 6-8 books a month, and running a book group, but we became hooked on 'Audible' books when I bought a SatNav a year or so ago. Can download and listen to the books on long journeys, Start travelling slower and slower to hear the end! :-)

Having said that, we also listen on the pc and also an mp3 player for in the garden when it's nice weather, which it ain't at the moment! :-(

Superb reads:

The Bryant and May series by Christopher Fowler, a couple of geriatric detectives who are attached to the Peculiar Crimes unit. It's worth making the effort to get them in series; whilst each book stands alone, they do tend to lead on with incidents from previous books being mentioned IYSWIM. The very best!

The Bob Burns series by Peter Kerr, a somewhat irrascible Scots detective with his sidekicks. Also Peter Kerr's autobiographical books where he relates his families experiences with moving to Mallorca and owning a small farm.

Cold Granite by Stuart McBride.

The Rome series by David Hewson - be warned they are somewhat black in the their plots, not for the faint-hearted.

The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey

Relentles by Simon Kernick

I could go on......

They're all the traditional 'British' (can't say English - some of them are Scots) crime, detective, murder/mystery genre, although David Hewson sets his in Rome.

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The Wanderer

I like Anne Perry and can read for hours, once I begin one of her books; the next time I go to the library, I will have to look for Lois Meade. The local community college which feeds into several universities in the area, opened a new branch with state of the art facilities near by our home about two-years ago and the library is combined with the city library to provide a wonderful library for the neighborhoods and the students.

DS gave me two more Ott lamps this year, one desk for the office/sewing room to put by the computer and a floor lamp for the living room next to my recliner. They are still both in the living room; he has one next to his recliner, while he is reading Tom Clancy's latest book. I told him he could keep it, as long as we got another one soon. He laughed.

-- Emily

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Emily Bengston

One of my newsgroups is rec.arts.mystery which is full of mystery readers, and a few authors. Also some cross-genre to SciFi, fantasy, politics, and off-topic threads that go on for days. There's also the matter of mayonnaise vs. Miracle Whip, and attitudes toward Peeps. Anyway, if you're looking for authors, you might take a peek. Another place to explore is

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Pogonip

Every single one! Also: Ngaio Marsh, Margary Allingham, Dorothy Sayer, Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, ... As far as I know, I have read every book each has written. That's why this gift was so special, DGD introduced me to two previously overlooked authors.

Beverly

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BEI Design

Thanks, I'm always on the lookout for worthwhile reading, I'll keep your recommendations in mind..

Beverly

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BEI Design

Clancy is another favorite of mine. I did not manage to finish his last in the John Ryan series, I was totally put off by the "prequel" format. He was eerily prescient on the world-wide terrorist activity.

Beverly

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BEI Design

Yay, Miracle Whip! (I keep both on hand because certain un-named family members are apostate.)

Best when microwaved. ;-)

Thanks, I think. I don't know when I'll ever get any sewing done....

Beverly

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BEI Design

You should have said something before I got started on the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries and from there to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Sew? When?

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Pogonip

Great! The Defective Constable Crosby is one of my favourite characters.

How come he never grows up and Sloan never grows old? ;)

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Kate XXXXXX

Do they explode?

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Kate XXXXXX

They do swell up, but then they sort of suffer a melt-down. There are lots of them on YouTube.

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Pogonip

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Beverly

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BEI Design

I have seen all his movies, with DS constantly commenting on them. And I've read a few of his books, but there isn't enough time to read everything I want, plus do all other things that's necessary, like sew for the two little girls and me.

-- Emily

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Emily Bengston

Oh, if you like them, you've got to check out Ellis Peters' mysteries. The stories are set in England in the dark ages (I can't remember,

1200's? 1300's? 1400's? somewhere in there). The "detective" in her mysteries is a Welsh monk called Brother Caedfael and they're wonderful stories.
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Kathy Morgan

I enjoyed the PBS series on Brother Cadfael several years ago. I'll read the books as soon as I finish all the other authors and all the sewing, and .......

;-}

Beverly

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BEI Design

1140's, during the civil war between Stephen and Maude. Caedfaael is Welsh, and Wales was not yet subject to the English crown. That came a century later.
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Kate XXXXXX

Oh, thank you! I couldn't remember the date, and I've given away all my Ellis Peter's books, so I couldn't look it up. (And my history is so weak that knowing it was set during the civil war between Stephen and Maude didn't help me a bit.)

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Thanks you for the post. Hi guys, Im a newbie. Nice to join this forum.

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