Book Club

[JudyL]

I'm a bit late to discovering Louise Penny but on the recommendations in the "Who Is A Good Mystery Writer" thread, I checked out a couple of her books from the library.  Oh my goodness, I am hooked.  Finished her first book yesterday "Still Life" and have another one waiting to start.  Didn't do anything else yesterday but read her book. 

[sandy53]

Today I finished Collateral Damage by JA Jance.  This is her new book in the Ali Reynolds series.  It's a great book and I highly recommend it.  Ali's husband is injured in a car accident and that opens an investigation that involves several murders, organized crime, and hired killers.  The use of artificial intelligence is interesting in the book since AI has been in the news a lot lately. 

It's a high quality series and is best if the books are read in order, but this could be read as a stand alone mystery.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

I was at home a lot this weekend, not feeling too good, so I started reading this book that I just received from Goodreads - a freebie.

It is called None of This Is True, by Lisa Jewell, and I have read other books by her-Wow!!!!This is so good...I am almost finished with it and I only read for about 2 hours on Saturday, and maybe an hour yesterday. It is written very well and catches your attention right away...  I was going to start Local Woman Missing, but will start that one after I finish this one....

[smoky22]

I read The Light Pirate by Lilly Brooks-Dalton.  Set in the near future, this is as much a coming of age story as it is about climate crisis.  Florida is being abandoned permanently as the land is reclaimed by nature. Wanda is born during (and named for) one of the hurricanes that are increasing in number and intensity.  The federal government has announced the entire state's closure.  There are few places to run as conditions are worsening everywhere.  But Wanda decides to stay in Florida, the only place she's ever known, and learns to survive and adapt to this new environment.

This is a beautifully written story.  It bogs down a little in the middle but always kept my interest.  Even if you are not a fan of dystopian literature, there is so much to love about this book.  

[SWEET]

My first book of April was Legacy by Nora Roberts.   I always enjoy her books and I haven't read one for a while.  I'm not into her lastest genre or her J.D. Robb series.

[dawg lover]

My most recent reads were:

LEMON CURD KILLER by Laura Childs (Charleston teashop mystery series)

GOOD DOG, BAD COP by David Rosenfelt (K-9 mystery series)

SO SHALL YOU REAP by Donna Leon (Inspector Brunetti mystery series)

COLLATERAL DAMAGE by J. A. Jance (Ali Reynolds mystery series)

I enjoyed all these books, but Collateral Damage most of all.  @sandy53 - I agree with you that this was a great book.  I think it's the best one in the whole Ali Reynolds series.

[itsmetoo]

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@dmod nj wrote:

Thank you, @icezeus  for starting this month's thread.  

One Year Gone is the follow up to Five Years Gone by Marie Force. I LOVED and HIGHLY recommend both books.  

I think in my first post about these books, I posted them in the wrong order. 

I started to read Icebreaker by Hannah Grace.  I gave up shortly after starting and returned it to the library.  It seemed like a YA novel.  Maybe I'm just old. LOL LOL 

I just started to listen to Kristen Proby, O'Callahans. 

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@dmod nj 

I just read a little on the cover (don't like to know too much about books) but it sounds like a very similar story as One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reed (who wrote Daisy Jones and the Six).  You might enjoy that one too.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

Finished None of This Is True, and it was really good!!!!!

Now onto Local Woman Missing, by Mary Kubica!

[sandy53]

I just finished re-reading The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis.  It was published in 2022 and I read it then, but we will discuss it at my book club on Monday, so I read it again.  This is historical fiction about the Frick mansion in New York City.  There are two storylines braided together, one in 1919 and one in 1966.  It involves art, family, love, and murder. 

I really enjoy this author and am looking forward to her upcoming book about Radio City Music Hall called The Spectacular.  I recommend all of her books.

[beckyb1012]

Surviving Savannah, by Patti Callahan.  The sinking of the Pulaski back in 1838 came to be known many decades later as the "The Titanic of the South."  The ship left Savanna for Baltimore with one night to be spent tied up in Charlotte and the next night at sea.  That was the great selling point to buying these $35.00 per person tickets on this very fast wooden steam ship.   One of the boilers explodes and like the Titanic in the next century not near enough life boats.  The Pulaski only had four for the estimated 200 passengers and 35 member crew.  59 people survived the sinking and being stranded in the sea floating.   Now 180 years later she as been found at the bottom of the sea.  It is time to tell the stories of the passengers that lost their lives, survived and went on, and the ones who just disappeared.