Best crime book you’ve read this year? I want to see what I’ve missed…
Best crime book you’ve read this year? I want to see what I’ve missed…
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Best crime book you’ve read this year? I want to see what I’ve missed…
Toss up between The Dolls House by Mj Arlidge . The Final Minute by Simon Kernick or Silent Scream by Angela Marsons
Silent scream is good choice
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
one of my favorite books ever 🙂
Me too… Just starting part 3… Bodrum !!
on my tbr listx
Tuesday Falling by S Williams, Silent Scream by Angie Marsons, the Blissfully Dead by Edwards/Voss, Wrong Place by Mel Comley, someone else’s skin by Sarah Hilary
I agree about Silent Scream and the follow up. Also Liar Liar.
Sycamore Gap by @Louise, Bad Sons @Oliver, Whisky from a small glass @Denzil, plus some others
Thanks David
Many thanks, @David.
No other darkness. Sarah Hilary
Tenacity. DM for Murder, Girl Who Wouldn’t Die
All of Chris carters books. Amazing writer??
chris carter x
Next of kin by @Sue
One by One by @Rob, Disorder by @Paddy, The Safe Word by @Karen and Rings of Smoke by @Diane are all excelllent @Sandy
Thanks David, always looking for new books to read 🙂
And thanks for the top plug, @David!
Mr McCaffrey – you gentleman!
The Prodigal by Nicky Black (@Nicky)
Howae man! That was an awesome book!
@Nicky The Prodigal, also another great read this year.
A Song of Shadows – John Connolly.
The Laurte R King Russell/Holmes novels brilliant
Going to open this comment in the library and make my choice ! Thanks for the suggestions
The Invisible Guardian by Delores Redondo.
Second vote for Tuesday Falling and Girl Who Wouldn’t Die.
You, by Caroline Kepnes. Really stuck in my mind and can’t wait for the sequel. And @Marnie The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die.
Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz, I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh, Dodger by James Benmore and lots of others
Enjoyed @Ava‘s Untouchable. Haven’t had chance to read much more this year, but OH massively enjoyed Stuart Neville’s Those we Left Behind & Elizabeth Haynes’ Into the Darkest Corner.
I like the killing very good x
Am listening to Tenacity at the moment, @Gordon! Great stuff.
Craig Robertson, Random
Shucks. Thanks guys ?.
Eeee!
Sharp objects by Gillian Flynn
There’s too many to remember them all but I’m currently ready Peter May’s Enzo Macleod series and really really enjoying them ?
I’m not going to pick one in case an author I forgot has me killed by a serial killer who cooks and eats me in their next book. All the crime books I read this year were the best ones.
I feel bad for not mentioning some. Yesterday I recommended Ava’s book (Untouchable) via a Twitter chat. Today I suggested Tenacity…there are so many more too.
It is great that there are so many fantastic books to choose from.
Impossible. loved them all
@Gordon, don’t feel bad! We all have the same dilemmas. And thank you for the Twitter rec!
I was going to add Black Wood by SJI Holliday, I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh and How I Lost You by Jenny Blackhurst, though I think I read Clare’s last year so I might be cheating.
That’s a hard one to say. The Blissfully Dead has to be close to the best I have read by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards. Marnie riches book the girl who broke the rules also top of the line. I also love stranger child by Rachel Abbott
We love you, Sean!
Thanks, Sean. That’s ace of you!
@www.facebook.com/thefishermanslily
Blatant agenda pushing ? (but also anything by Lauren Beukes)
Three in this series so far, and they are brilliant, have a look if you fancy something completely new, no stereotypical cop rubbish, this is really different – https://www.amazon.com/Babys-Got-Blue-Eyes-Introducing-ebook/dp/B00TA4N5S6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1443108028&sr=1-1&keywords=l+m+krier
I agree @Jill they are excellent, have pre-ordered number 3. What a darling Ted is! 🙂
Thank you, ladies 🙂
Tim Weaver ‘Fall From Grace’. I just couldn’t put the book down until I has finished it.
The Jackdaw by @Luke – his books are fantastic.
Just finished time to die by @Caroline, cracking and creepy!!
Jeffrey Deaver. The Devil’s Teardrop. excellent read, and highly recommended. 🙂
Dolls house, tania carver,
Anything by Anne Cleeves or Stuart McBride
Actual award winner Craig Russell The Ghosts of Altona-real good and from 2014 I’m Pilgrim
One of the best…The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly…also a good movie.
The Reaper by Steven Dunne or I Let You Go by Claire Macintosh for me 🙂
White Bones by Graham Masterton and Hellbound by David McCaffrey. Bouth outstanding reads!!!
I loved White Bones! Great book.
Snapshot – @Craig c”,)
Currently reading ‘The Domino Killer’ by Neil White. Can’t put it down!!
I’ve loved both of @Angie‘ books! @Caroline too with Time to Die (her true story book Paranomal Intruder is a must read), I love Chris Mosby’s crime books and Jane Casey – After The Fire was great. Do connect with me on Goodreads and scan my crime shelf and 5 star reads shelf. https://www.goodreads.com/BookloverCatlady
Do you mean Steve Mosby?
THANK YOU so much @Maxine, I loved your review for Time to Die, thrilled you enjoyed the Raven 😉
Beyond the rage by @Michael
Out of 70 reads in 2015 so far, the best would be a choice between TRUST NO ONE by Paul Cleave, THE HUNTER’S PRAYER by Kevin Wignall, and BEYOND THE RAGE by @Michael… with some others very close behind (John Connolly etc)
Thanks for the mention, @Graham and @Craig. You just cheered me up no end. Faves for me – Sarah Pinborough THE DEATH HOUSE, Don Winslow, THE CARTEL and @Douglas‘s DEVIL’S KNOCK
Thanks, Michael! There are so many books I’ve enjoyed I wouldn’t know where to begin. But I also liked Beyond the Rage, Peter May’s Runaway, Neil Broadfoot’s The Storm, Matt Bendoris’s DM for Murder, Caro Ramsay’s Absolution (an old title but I finally caught up with it), Benjamin Black’s The Black-Eyed Blonde, There are more, though.
Little bit of mutual Scottish crime fiction love there! I really liked Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina, but The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson is probably my favourite of the year. Best debut – The Dark Inside by Rod Reynolds. And Matt’s DM For Murder was v original and witty – a great read. I must read more Scottish authors – I have them all. Douglas, I promised you ages ago I’d be in touch about doing a feature – which of yours would you recommend I start with? (And I’m saving The Cartel for long winter evenings – ditto Orient by Christopher Bollen.)
I’d start with Blood City, @Linda. It’s the first in the series
And thanks!
I didn’t forget!
Mystery In White by J.Jefferson Farjeon
I’m reading Runaway by Peter May and it’s brilliant, can’t put it down!
@Bert I read this book over the last weekend, Set in Glasgow gritty and full of action, along with some humour, Who would call the hero Gus Thoroughgood may I ask? however a highly recommended read.
Hi David many thanks for your thoughts & now just a quid!!! Maybe if I ever get a chance to talk to you guys I can tell you where the name came from!! Gracias Amigo!
@Louise will I am sure invite you to an author chat.
Fingers crossed…have just signed with McNidder & Grace & have 2 books due out in 2016. Thank u again for your positive comments…will u b tempted into secobd in the series The Hurting also on a reduced deal for a month?!!
Go on then will give it a go.
U sir are a gentleman a toff a scholar * am acrobat..as somepne once said!! Thank u.
I have it on my kindle now, I suppose you will want me to get “The longest shadow” next.
Absolutely
..my favourite as the 2nd investigation is based pn a wartime cover up that goes on to this day!! But ill save that 4 book club chat….if Louise ever asks me!!!!
@Louise see above.
Thanks @David, Burt I have sent you a message.
I highly recommend Parallel Lines and the rest of my good mate RJ Bert Mitchell’s work. If you like gritty, authentic crime, set on the mean streets of Glasgow, he’s your man!
You are too kind my friend but you are the man at the top of the best seller charts and no wonder Dark Suits & Sad Songs is a cracking read!!
I am fortunate indeed, Mr M. Thank you for your words of encouragement 🙂
I’m gonna have to check you guys out
Well my first two books just wwnt on discount deals yesterday so nows the perfect time…if u like a darker shade of tartan noir!!!
Where Bert. I can’t find you on Amazon
RJ Mitchell is my poizon pen name…all 3 books ready 2 rock…with first 3 chapters of book 4 The Shift, prequel set in 89 & based on my xperiences as a rookie cop with a Medieval History degree on a shift full of NI veterans, on end of Parallel Lines!!
Good stuff Keith 🙂
Where u get these glasses D…Arthur Askey’s grave?!!!
Never read anything Scottish but since on this site discovered so many and now I’m gonna discover you 🙂
You will enjoy both Denzil Meyrick and R J Mitchell.
I like to look at my whisky through small glasses, Bert 😉 ta-da!
I like my Whisky, particularly Islays.
Girl on a Train undoubtedly 🙂
Just finished Karen Slaughters ‘Pretty Girls’- gobbled it, ignored family, sunshine , chores – read it!??
You should try Springbank, David. King of malts.
@Bert, @Louise will I am sure invite you to an author chat.