Please can you tell me the best book you have read please? I need a really meaty addictive read… Thankyou x
Please can you tell me the best book you have read please? I need a really meaty addictive read…
Thankyou x
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December by Phil Rickman brilliant read.
Thankyou for heads up in need of a good read xx
Shadow man cody mcfayden xx
Relentless by Simon kernick
One of my favourite books I’ve ever read.
Yeah same here but I do love all his books
Love his books… always have to read in one sitting though!
I would second Relentless too….absolutely bloody brilliant book.
Yeah I always read it pretty much in one sitting and then waiting till January like I am
Now lol for the bone field.
The Toy Taker by @Luke
Not able to choose one really, this is one of my favourites
I love his novels. I can’t put them down
@Lisa I havent read any of the novellas, have you? Somehow the idea of a short story didnt appeal as the suspense in the others builds and builds which can really happen in a short story – can it?
I’m not a fan of short stories. I love a good book. Although with certain authors I would maybe give it a try
The best one would be very difficult. Best ones this year Into the Darkest Corner Elizabeth Haynes – Murderabilia Craig Robertson. Anything by Peter James
Absolute Power by David Baldacci.
The Book Thief. Not a crime book I know but stunning words.
The treatment by mo hader
All Mo Hayders in my favourites list
Yep my fave x
I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes. It will get you on about page 7!
Reading that at the moment, about halfway through, it’s good!
New Terry Hayes – “The Year of the Locust” …. but not until AUGUST next year!
My suggestions would be historical fiction, so I don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for. I’m currently reading “His Bloody Project” though and that is amazing
Not recent but one of my fave crime reads of all time is Black and Blue by Ian Rankin. The absolute pinnacle of his Rebus series IMHO. In the same way that On Beulah Heights was Reg Hill’s best Pascoe & Dalziel novel.
Little black lies belinda bauer
The @Angie series xx
Sorry !!!! Little black lies Sharon Bolton !
Mari Hannah’s crime books are a very meaty read. Just read her latest and could hardly put it down.
Recently discovered @Luca absolutely brilliant books well worth a try x
Inferno by Dan Brown…The way he describes Florence and Venice is as if you’re there with them.
Too many but new series @Caroline has two new starts out and both were amazing. The witness was cool which is the newest one and then love you to death. Both great and are new series so you won’t have to catch up
Are they available in Australia anywhere? ?
I am not sure @Caroline can you answer that question. I know they are in Canada
Thanks @Sean! Yes they are 😉 https://www.amazon.com.au/Death-Absolutely-Gripping-Thriller-Killer-Detective-Preston/dp/B01LYPU1MW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1479908561&sr=1-1&keywords=love+you+to+death
Also M J Aldridge series xxx
Anything by Chris Carter
It’s more true crime/memoir but “A child called ‘it’ trilogy by Dave Pelzer, you can get all three books in he my story book
I read those and it made me want to shake his mother vigorously by the windpipe.
I don’t think I read anything more awful. I’ll be honest. It was so terrible that I thought it must be exaggerated until I read his brother Richards book as well.
I mean the actions of his mother by the way, not the book itself. The book is excellent.
Me too, I just could fathom how a mother could do that too her own child, and then turn around and act like everything was his fault, it was so good to see that he ended up getting a job he wanted and the women he deserved! I’m yet to read Richards book!
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid or Birdman by Mo Hayder
Anything by Kimberly Chambers x
Too many
The Son. By Jo Nesbo. A wonderful read. You know you are being lead by the hand but you just can’t guess where. Great writing.
Any of Val McDermid
robin roughley, lasser series , 12 in all, soon to be 13,
angela marson ,s all of them., and robert bryndz , the author of girl in the ice, and others , a must read
Starting from the top so going to read them all! Thanks everyone x
Robin Roughley, David Videcette, Stuart McBride, James Oswald, Peter James, LJ Ross, Val McDermid, Chris Carter, Angela Marsons, KA Richardson, Kate Ellis, Oh I can go on for ever. ?
The Butler series by @Kimberley I like all of her stuff but the Butlers grab you from the get go and your left shocked at the amount of stuff they get up to and into. Ooft xxx
Can’t put any of her books down!! Jus brilliant
One of the best is Donna Tartt the Secret History xx
Never knowing by chevy stevens! I’ve read it three times!
My wife has just been raving about Eileen by Ottessa Mosfegh and she’s rarely wrong.
The Widow, Girl on the Train and The Missing
Wasn’t sure what sort of book you were after but my absolute favourite book ever is The Magus by John Fowles which is definitely meaty and addictive! Although not traditional crime it could possibly be classed as one of the first psychological thrillers as the twists and turns blow your mind! Seriously meaty and seriously addictive ?
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. A truly wonderful book.
Angela marsons – DI Kim stone books are brilliant!!
I’m sat here with my kindle looking at all these suggestions but most of them are £4 or more…. prefer to get them off kindle unlimited. Shame none of them are on there !
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith – best book I’ve read this year…not exactly crime, but has all the components of a psychological mystery and a final denouement. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Farm-Tom-Rob-Smith/dp/1847375693
Books by Stuart Macbride are page turners. I read them in around 20 hours as I can’t put them down once I’ve opened it.
Yes I agree he is good xx
I love his books.
Love Stuart MacBride!!
kill me again,,,,,,,,,,, rachel abbots
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Houssaini.
Currently reading this and it’s very intriguing ?
Every title by @Kimberley x
Have to agree with Teresa, love all books by @Kimberley
Thanks ladies x
Yep have to agree, anything by @Kimberley and you can’t go wrong, only advise is don’t start it if you have things to do or places to go because from the get go you cannot put her books down xx
I like Karin Slaughter
Oh yes she’s good xxx
Butchers Theatre, Jonathan Kellerman.
You want a fun book? Guys and Dolls and Other Stories, by Damon Runyon.
Karen Rose xx
Undercover: Operation Julie by @Steve
Did i say Kerry Wilkinson??? Xxx
@KA @R
Wow thanks so much for the mention Margaret xx
No problem hun ???
Chelsea Cain ???
as above
Absolutely ANYTHING by Chris Carter , he’s Meaty, Gritty and probably too raw for some it I find him Addictive!
Any Mark Billlingham