OT: reading

Have you read any of the 'Charlie Parker' series by John Connolly ? Thriller+suspense+touches of the supernatural+some humourous repartee.

Have you tried Tess Gerriten or Robin Cook? How about Edna Buchanan? My personal favorite for that style reading are the Prey series from Stanford, though I love all his books/series.

Also - some of the stand-along JA Jance fit your bill too.

And maybe it's time for a change of pace.

Cheryl

You might try Ridley Pearson (sp) or Michael Koryta. And a new author with just two books out is Tana French. Another is Karin Slaughter.

Nancy

Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman?

I personally like the old JA Jance series featuring JP Beaumont, the Seattle detective, better than the Joanna Brady ones (the more recent Joanna Brady ones - the originals were okay - and there is one where JP is in AZ and they work together).

Earl Emerson - I love his Thomas Black series, also writes a bunch from the view of a firefighter.

Marcia Muller.

Loren Estelman

Hope you find something!

linda

I just finished "The Girl Who Played With Fire" (Steig Larsson) this weekend and couldn't put it down!

First read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" to meet characters. That one the plot is a little uneven in places (and very convoluted), but character development is terrific. Then in the second book, the plot just takes off and runs. "Knowing" the characters from the first book explains a lot and enhances the reading of the second.

The bad part is, now I have to wait a year for the next one!

Sue

I like Minette Walters.

I too like John Sanford's Prey series and I think there's one in my book stash waiting for me. I recently read a couple of very old Joy Fielding books and they were'nt bad.

Someone just gave me my first Sandra Brown but I didn't start it yet so can't comment.

Tess Gerriten I don't know but I'm going to look and see.

Lucille

For light mystery reading I used to like Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, but I haven't seen a new one for a while. I wonder why?

Tami Hoag has some good ones too.

Try the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. These are very well written books. I just finished the latest Sandra Brown book last night and it's VERY good.

Janet

The next one is due out in December.

Nancy

Also Nevada Barr, especially the most recent ones.

Cheryl

'cause the last one was terrible.... T? I think

the worst part is - the author passed away and the 3rd book will be the last!

Actually it took me a long time to "get into" the Dragon Tattoo but once I was into the story it kept you involved. Is the Played With Fire book similar in structure or a bit different?

MelissaD

Does anyone know of a good series of books I can start that is thriller suspense?

Here are some authors with mystery series:

J D Robb Sandra Brown Lisa Jackson Faye Kellerman Jonathan Kellerman Peri O'Shaughnessy

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

Maybe that's why I haven't noticed a new one in a while. I read so much junk (aka known as just for fun) lately that they morph into each other at times.

The Ian Rankin 'Rebus' mysteries are great. Just finished ready about 10 of them that my sister lent me. Must find the one's I haven't read at the library. Rankin's non-Rebus mysteries are also good.

Also Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee books. If you haven't discovered them, Ellis Peter's Cadfael and her Detective Felse series. She also wrote some great stand alone mysteries with musical subjects (The Horn of Roland, etc).

Antonia Frazer's mysteries (all with red in the title) Dorothy Dunnett's "Dolly" mysteries, although these are now out of print

- possibly in your local library or used book store.

MargW

This series keeps sounding familiar, maybe I really do need to keep a note book about what I've read.

The second book seems to run on a lot more adrenaline, more plot/action than character. Character development is primarily in new characters, and I suspect that having an understanding of the Salander and Blomqvist back story would enhance the reader's experience. The story unfolds more quickly in the second book since you don't have to spend time introducing the major characters. And then it takes off, and you just hang on and let it carry you away!

It has fewer "knots" than TGWTDT. That book had one knot (storyline plot) that was unravelled, then made a left turn to switch focus to a second one. (I remember feeling like, "The story's over, but there's still 200 pages" and it picked up steam in a whole new direction.) TGWPWF has just one big, HUGE tangle that gets pulled apart one thread at a time.

Also, first book focused on him, with her coming to his aid. In the second book, the roles are reversed.

sue

Have you tried Julie Smith? She has two series, one set in San Francisco and the other in New Orleans. She was a newspaper reporter, first in N.O. then in S.F, before she turned to mystery writing, so her background and characters are both excellent.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans