What are you reading right now?

Having finished The Silkworm and enjoyed it I am having another foray into crime, nearly half way through Entry Island. I have never read any Peter May before, he seems to be a crime writer that is often mentioned on GN.

I have just finished 'What Alice Forgot' by Liane Moriarty and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I Don't Know How She Does It - (forget author, book upstairs) hilarious

Have just finished the Lewis Trilogy - Peter May, Fantastic

Is that by Alison Pearson, flower? I think she used to be a journalist.

Must read it, I need something funny.

I`ve just finished a first book by John Burley, a thriller called No Mercy. I really enjoyed it, and hope there will be a follow up book, because at the end it leaves you wondering what happens next, there`s no actual conclusion.
I have just started The Forgotten, by David Baldacci, but haven`t read enough to give an opinion yet, but I usually enjoy his books.

Have almost finished the Lewis Trilogy by Peter May it`s been a great read the 3 books

I'm reading Northanger Abbey, by Val McDermid.

I`ve nearly finished The Forgotten, it`s been brilliant. My book stocks are getting a bit low, must replenish very soon.

Northanger Abbey, by Val McDermid.
And I always thought it was by Jane Austen! Silly me.

Loved The Forgotten. Am now reading Playing Dead, by Julia Heaberlin, looks promising.

Playing Dead was good, not brilliant, but worthy of a read. I`ve just finished Broken, by Karen Fossum, a Norwegian writer. What a load of bunkum! I was so keen for it to improve as I went along that I read the whole book, but I needn`t have bothered, it didn`t get any better. The basic tale is a woman writer who writes a book a year, taking a year to write them, and has a queue of imaginary folk outside her house, waiting for her to write about them. One jumps the queue and comes in the house demanding to be written about right there and then. The chapters alternate between the story she`s writing, and him keep coming back to see her. Quite boring really, I wouldn`t recommend it.

I'm reading Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters.

I bought The October List, by Jeffrey Deaver, last weekend, but am ashamed to say that I gave up after 3 chapters. It`s a "back to front" book, the ending is at the beginning, and works backwards, so the start of the story is at the end of the book. Not for me, what`s the point of knowing the end before the beginning? Jeffrey Deaver says it`s his first attempt at this style of writing, let`s hope he makes it his last! I`ve just finished, and enjoyed, Dan Brown`s Inferno, the latest Robert Langdon tale. Wouldn`t want to read this type of book all the time, but enjoy them now and again. Am just about to start on an old book from the 80s, The Want-ad Killer, by Ann Rule, apparently she wrote/writes true stories about hunts for murderers.

I'm reading Linda Bellinghams book 'There is something I'm dying to tell you' so far I'm liking it a lot..

I've just bought a Kindle just to get books which are often out of print. I'm reading A.J.Cronin's books again and enjoying them. Its nice to read about pre war days how they really were and not how modern writers portray them. (For too sugary in my opinion).

I'm also reading a book by Ian Rankin, its not bad-my daughter reads him.

The second book in the Shades of Grey trilogy. Mixed feelings about it!

I`m in the midst of "The Long Way Home" by Louise Penny her latest in the Inspector Gamache - love her writing

sparkygran agree about Louise Penny - if like me you have read/reread them in the correct order she is so good at developing the characters with each new book. the only one I found difficult was the one set on a monastery on an island and not in Three pines village.
currently I have managed to get Thin Air by Ann Cleeves (shetland series) from the library. As you would expect if you have read any of hers - it moves slowly but is so atmospheric - you almost feel you are seeing the landscape and the people.

mollie65 I have read them in order and like you not sure why she popped in the one about the monastery - though I enjoyed it - love the way she concentrates on one character but involves all he others I really feel as if I know them all.
Thin Air is on my list Ann Cleeves books are a good read - if I wasn`t so long in the tooth would love to visit Shetland!!

I`ve just finished reading Entry Island, by Peter May, and thought it was a brilliant read. I loved his Lewis Trilogy, and have read a few other of his books, but having read 2 of the Enzo files, I`m not too keen on those at all, so won`t be going for the third one.

Hi numberplease I also read Entry Island and thought it was great too. Having read a lot of your reading posts I know you are a great crime fan. Have you discovered Tim Weaver? Have just read "Fall from Grace" very good and my husband has recently finished the forerunner to that "Never Coming Back" which he tells me is excellent.

I bought Entry Island a few weeks ago and it is still sitting on my bedside table. I am now looking forward to getting"stuck into" it.Thanks for the info.

Hi Terribull, so far, the only Tim Weaver that I`ve read is Never Coming Back, which I enjoyed, so will definitely read him again. annsixty, I hope you enjoy Entry Island. I`m just a few pages into Identical, by Scott Turow, not read enough to comment just yet.

I`m half way through Val McDermid`s latest - The Skeleton Road and thoroughly enjoying it. It seems to me reading the posts most of us are crime thriller devotees I love them. A good watch is on ITV3 on Monday evenings called The Crime Thriller Club presented by the lovely Bradley Walsh

Please Mr Postman by Alan Johnson. I loved his first book "This Boy" and I am enjoying the follow up.