Currently Reading (Take 2)

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Any good page-turner type mysteries you can recommend?

 

Pushkin Press have recently been re-publishing some overlooked suspense classics, and I've read a couple and greatly enjoyed them.

The Disappearance Of Signora Giulia, by Piero Chiara

Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. how can a young, beautiful high society woman just vanish into thin air? Why does her husband - a prominent criminal lawyer and much older man - know nothing about it? And who was she really visiting during those trips to Milan? For Detective Sciancalepre, the mystery is darker and more tangled than he imagined.

She Who Was No More, by Boileau-Narcejac

Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse is gone - so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity...   (Later adapted as the movie "Les Diaboliques", fact-fans!)

Hard copies are pretty hard to come by, but you can get them cheap on kindle. For more in the Pushkin Vertigo series, click here!

Also most anything by Patricia Highsmith. If you're looking for something more modern, I can't really help you.  "I Saw A Man" by Owen Sheers is pretty good. Or the Scandinavian crime canon, like Henning Mankell, Camilla Lackberg, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø etc. etc. I finished "Headhunters" by Jo Nesbø a couple of weeks ago, and it's good fun.

 

 

[RippedMan]

Thanks! I'll go to Strand and see what I can find!

[spiderdj822]

I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter

[uncageg]

Simon vs. The Homo Sapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli

 

About a sixteen year old in the south who is "not-so-openly" gay but is having an e-mail relationship with someone called Blue who may or may not go to his school. (Only halfway through the book). If you read it, Simon, the sixteen year old, tells blue in one e-mail to look something up Online. Blue does and responds that it creepy. I looked it up. It exists. And it is creepy! Loving this book. A lot of it reminds me of my teen years in school living in a small town.

Actually finished the book a while after my post. Really enjoyed this and actually checked out some of the recording artists mentioned in the book. Downloaded one album that plays a part in the story.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont (1971) by Elizabeth Taylor is the best book I've read in a long while. Highly recommended! Trudged through some other stuff but this is the first one in a while that might merit a bump of this thread.

[spiderdj82]

Bumping this old gem.

 

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES - Agatha Christie 

[javero]

Homo Deus by Yoval Noah Harari

[RippedMan]

Any good thrillers?

[javero]

I haven't read a good thriller in awhile but just ordered a copy of

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK by blogger Mark Manson

[Cat Guy]

In preparation for a Summer 2018 London and Paris holiday, I am reading (and enjoying) two books by Edward Rutherfurd:  "London:  The Novel" and "Paris:  The Novel".  The nature of the writing is that I can switch back and forth between the books without becoming lost or confused.

 

 

[javero]

Of course I just pre-ordered a copy of Michael Wolff's bombshell Fire and Fury.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Looking for recommendations! I highly recommend "Party of One" by Dave Holmes 

[spiderdj82]

[Dollypop]

Halfway through FIRE AND FURY.

[spiderdj82]

I'm currently reading two books: 

ENEMIES & ALLIES - Kevin J. Anderson

NOS4A2 - Joe Hill 

[Cat Guy]

My husband and I and another couple, our best friends, recently enjoyed an evening of entertainment at San Diego's Old Globe Theater.  We saw a wonderful production of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest".  That spurred me on to read the play, which I am doing now.  Wilde's wit shines through all these many decades later.

[@z5]

Just finished "This Is Me" BY Chrissy Metz today, and gotta say how surprised and impressed I was by this book! Definitely a food read with humor, drama, and heartbreak, all very well told.