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Any really good mysteries?

GSPgirl — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:34:31 GMT

I just finished Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Loved The Girl on the Train! What a page turner! Can anyone recommend another page turner? Thank!

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lovestopaint — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:35:47 GMT

Try James Patterson's books.

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lovestopaint — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:36:05 GMT

Try James Patterson's books.

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Sunshine Kate — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:40:45 GMT

I was looking for 'page turner' mystery also.

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mima — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:05:44 GMT

I'm reading The Girl on the Train right now! It's really good! I'll be watching for suggestions for the future too! Thanks for starting the thread.

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Lilysmom — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:13:09 GMT

Try anything by Tana French and Louise Penny. Read their books in order. Google the author to get proper sequence of books.

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GSPgirl — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:43:37 GMT

On 2/10/2015 mima said:
I'm reading The Girl on the Train right now! It's really good! I'll be watching for suggestions for the future too! Thanks for starting the thread.

Isn't it good?? You are welcome.

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GSPgirl — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:44:11 GMT

Thanks everyone.

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kahootz — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:46:36 GMT

I'm usually not a mystery reader but loved Gone Girl. So tell me, if I start reading Girl on a Train, will I be able to go to sleep at night? I usually read right before bedtime, but don't want to pollute my mind with something so stimulating that I won't be able to sleep.

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Lynneuk — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:48:45 GMT

I have the Girl on the Train on hold at the library. I have two perfect books for you by another English author, Paula Daly. The first one is called "Just what Kind of Mother are you?" Then her second is called " Keep Your Friends Close". Both are real page turner mysteries and I highly recommend them both.

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GSPgirl — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:48:48 GMT

It's a good mystery and not gorey, but I have to say it did make me want to stay awake to get to the next chapter. It's an old fashioned mystery.

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Dusty1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:50:30 GMT

I just finished That Night by Chevy Stevens. It was really good. I had never heard of the author, but I am going to start on another of her books.

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kelsey17 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:52:01 GMT

Lisa Gardner has had some really good books....and i am also on my second Michael Robotham book which is very good..........................you may want to look some of their books up...

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icaughtu — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:52:19 GMT

I love Jonathan Kellerman's books and also Lisa Gardner.

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HB glamma — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:08:40 GMT

THE GOOD GIRL by Mary Kubica is excellent!!

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ritasNo1Fan — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:29:38 GMT

The serial killer with the heart of gold Dexter series. And fabulous Rachael Knight series by "the" Marcia Clark. (I tried Richard Patterson, & I wasted my $$. I don't get it...)

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ChynnaBlue — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:53:30 GMT

If you liked Gone Girl, try Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow or Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis LeHane. Mystic River is also by LeHane and very good.

I really like the Harry Bosch series, by Michael Connelly. Elizabeth George and Laura Lippman are also excellent writers.

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is non-fiction by David Simon, creator of the TV series Homicide: Line of the Streets and The Wire. It's fantastic. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins is another non-fiction book that's wonderful. If you think the media is bad today, you will not BELIEVE what Pulitzer and Hearst got up to when they owned the top newspapers in New York.

I love anything by Carl Hiaason. My favorite's are Skin Tight, Basket Case, and Strip Tease.

Megan Abbot writes noir crime fiction set mostly in the 1940s, like much of hardboiled detective fiction.Her earlier works are better, so check out Queenpin or The Song is You.

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sandy53 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:24:48 GMT

You might want to try John Sandford and J.A. Jance.

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Kalli — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:10:58 GMT

All these books sound so interesting!

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nomar — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:28:56 GMT

These are probably not your type of mystery, but I am a whimp so I stay with cozy mysteries. I am waiting for more Joanne Fluke books to come out. (I like food and cooking

I recently discovered the series by Mary Daheim ( I like bed and breakfast settings.) The mother and cousin are hilarious in these books, but still have a good mystery to them.

Of course there is always Janet Evanovich books. Another series good for laughs.

I am a chicken when it comes to blood and gore, so these are my type of mysteries. And I would not be embarrassed for a teen or mother to read these.