What are you reading.

Just finished The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole. I know it's an old book, but I did enjoy it. Some of these freebies on kindle are really good!

Last read "Fall of Giants" by Ken Follet. Approx 800 pages.about the first world war with much political history.Now I,me reading "Winter of the World"; same author. In this he has moved the first books character,s children on to the second world war.Extremely well written.Am enjoying it.

The Killer of Pilgrims by Susannah Gregory. The story is set in Cambridge during the winter of 1358 with the usual rivalry between town and gown. A wealthy benefactor is found dead in the grounds of Michaelhouse College - Brother Michael, the Senior Proctor, and Matthew Bartholomew, a physician and lecturer at Michaelhouse, set out to find the killer. Then a yellow-haired thief strikes at the citizen and a feud begins between the colleges and hostels with pranks that start to get out of hand. Add to the mix a game of camp-ball between the townsfolk and colleges and things begin to get worse for our two intrepid investigators.

I like the fact that Ms Gregory uses true historical figures as the characters of her plots and tries to keep them in the roles they occupied during their time at the Colleges in Cambridge. The plots for her books also often centre on actual events that occurred during that time.

I`ve just finished With All My Love, by Patricia Scanlan. Although she`s written lots of books, she`s new to me, and I really enjoyed the book, it does what it says on the cover, in that it`s a very heartwarming story. I`ve now gone back to my usual genre, thrillers, and I`m reading Gone for Good, by Harlan Coben. I like his Myron Bolitar books, but I much prefer the stand alone books, like this one.

Just started a book called London Falling [forget the author though and can't remember which room I left my Kindle in to check.Old age.] It seems to be a mix of modern crime with some supernatural in it as well, not something I would normally expect to be mixed, but only a chapter in so far, and the writing style is quite good.

Reading Barbara Erskine Daughters of fire. Probably read by others as it was published some time ago. Quite like her books, but need a gap in between them. X

In between reading Life After Life twice I read the One Plus One- Jojo Moyes- not a patch on Me Before You but a good read.
I think I need something a bit meatier now though so onto next in Shardlake series by C J Samson.

thanks anno I will look out for the Norfolk series now.

Bez, thank you, I knew it was someone with the same name as a 60s pop singer, but couldn`t remember who.

I just finished the Book Thief, and loved it. I know it was intended for school age children, but what a lovely book, and original way of telling the story.

Roses, apologies. I've got the wrong series in the wrong county. The last Merrily book I read was in Herefordshire. The North Norfolk setting is in books by Elly Griffiths. Worth reading too.

Number Dell Shannon - if you google Lt Luis Mendoza you can find the list of books and the order they were written.

Many years ago, well over 30 years anyway, I borrowed quite a lot of books from the library featuring a detective called Lt. Luis Mendoza, of the LAPD, but can`t remember the author, and would love to read them again, can anybody help me out please?

Does Merrily move to Norfolk? The ones I have read are set in the border country between England and Wales [Monmouthshire?]

I enjoy the Merrily Watkins series, for light relief. The North Norfolk background appeals to me as it's about an area that's been familiar to me in the past and it brings it all back.

Just started reading The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher. This is an old-ish book [written in the early 1980's] and one of the later ones by this writer I think, as I remember her books in libraries much earlier than this.
This gives the feeling that it's written in the 1950's rather than 30 years later, a bit disconcerting.Only read 2 chapters so far, it was a Kindle deal.
Before that I read Life After Life, which I found quite brilliant.A am also reading a Phil Rickman [Merrily Watkins series] The Remains Of An Altar and this is very entertaining so far. detective/spiritual/supernatural.

I am reading - The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - by Simon Mawer - my book club choice for this month. It is about the SOE people who were parachuted into France during the war. Interesting as it gives an idea of their training etc before being sent on a mission as young women. Just finished To Kill a Mocking Bird - which I really enjoyed and just after I finished it the Gregory Peck film was on TV so interesting to watch that too.

Sorry - it's called 'City of Bones'.

Occasionally I dive into the Kindle Daily Deal and come up with a pearl. This time it's a Harry Bosch book by Michael Connelly. I like his work very much. This LA detective reminds me of Ian Rankin's Rebus. There can be no higher praise!

I`ve just finished The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. I`m not sure if I actually enjoyed it as such, but it was a very unusual, interesting book. It has a narrator, who is Death, a little disconcerting.

Thanks to everyone who recommended Anne Cleeves' Shetland books. I got the first one, Raven Black yesterday and am already half way through it.
One of the later ones was on special offer on Kindle (I think it still is) but I decided to start with the first and I'm so glad I did. I've got so many more to look forward to.

The Prophet has improved as it went on, but too much emphasis on American football for me, because it`s all Greek to me.

I love Martina Cole books and have read quite a few. A very good read.

I`ve just finished The Stolen Ones, by Richard Montenari, very good. Ha ve just got going on The Prophet, by Michael Koryta, a bit slow at the moment, hope it picks up soon.

The Marrying of Chani Kaufmann by Eve Harris. It tells the story of the lead-up of a marriage between two extremely orthodox Jews and the difficulties of living such an orthodox life. Great book.