Mystery Books

I just read this book last year and I really liked it.
The first Jack Reacher book I read was The Hard Way, which was O.K.,
but I decided to start at the beginning and work my way forward.
This was a great introduction of this...
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Lee Child's Killing Floor has gotten rave reviews as has Child for most of his work within his genre. To be candid, I just don't get it. What the book does have going for it is that it is a "page turner". That hardly makes up for its...
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I finally got to read a Lee Child book, with the hero, Jack Reacher. Good plot, good writing, but too many coincidences. O.K. so, you have a smart, tough guy, bitter at the army and world in general. He walks into a small town, on a whim and...
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I loved the book. Just finished it and have started another. It's great to find a new author to enjoy.
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After reading all the author's books so far, i realized he is repeating himself. In all his books (including the ones which Myron Bolitar isn't present) there are the same elements in the plot: disappeared person who might or not be dead, mobster...
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I may try one more, but only if the action picks up. By reading this, you would not know that Myron Bolitar has a third degree black belt in marshal arts. Here he is always getting the crap beat out of him. Oh, by the way Win, Myron's rich friend...
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the ideas that kathy writes about are gripping. it held my interest till the very end. i have read almost all of her books. i really enjoy the tv series "bones". if her books do not hold your interest then there is something wrong with you.
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This book starts out as a nice interesting story where our hero, Dr. Temperance Brennan (of Bones TV fame) happily plays with corpses torn to shreds in a commercial plane crash. Suddenly she finds herself kicked off the skeleton squad, and wonders...
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I liked Reichs' 2007 release so much that I decided to check out my library's Kathy Reichs collection. To read them chronologically, I started with the earliest available, Fatal Voyage. I was very excited to read this book. The first few chapters...
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This Stephanie Plum book was just like the others, great! I thought it started out a little slow, but it definitley picked up and had a great ending. Don't give up on it for the first half, it is worth the read. I purchased the next 3 in a boxed...
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After enjoying the first two Stephanie Plum stories, I eagerly jumped into this one. It did not meet expectations. It was just not believable. Stephanie continues to make the kinds of mistakes that you would think she would learn from by now....
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Easy reader. Stephanie is a likeable, believable character. The story itself is a bit crazy and unbelievable, and it is really less of a mystery per se and more of a crime story. Take it for what it is.
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When is a satire not effective, merely irritating? In Klavan's Empire of Lies, where his tongue-in-cheek penchant is an impediment to a weak plot. Given to diatribes and Capitol Letters (The Scene, The End of the World As We Know...
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The concept behind this series is as entertaining as the old series The Ghost and Mrs Muir. The references to old 40'smovies and mystery books brings humor to a serious subject. This is a a good start to the series and the next three are as...
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What a waste of time. The plot was full of cliches, the perps were telegraphed from the beginning and why try to explain the unexplainable.

If you still want to read it, check with the library - don't spend money on this one.
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This book was not the best book I have read, but it was not horrible either. I liked Penelope the main character, I liked the people in the town even if they were a little clich at times, but the one part of this book I actually did not like was...
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Another excellent book by Charlaine Harris! I love everything she has written and wish she could write faster!! This is a great book and a great series!!!
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As a huge Charlaine Harris fan I recently picked up "Shakespeare's Landlord", the first Lily Bard mystery. This series deals with Lily, a cleanwoman dealing with her traumatic past by running off to a small town and making a new life for herself....
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A wonderfully frothy comedic mystery series with great characters and setting. Loved the puzzle in this entry (and the low-speed chase with Clare driving and Madame riding shotgun was hilarious). Looking forward to reading the next book in this...
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This series tends to be uneven ... a pretty good read followed by a novel with a silly plot and sillier characters. This one not only falls into the latter category, but it is also not particularly well-written although I did learn a lot about...
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It's approaching Halloween and the events of Murder Most Frothy have had some consequences. There's tension between Clare and her daughter Joy. Otherwise, it's business as usual at the Village Blend, the coffeehouse Clare manages in the Greenwich...
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If you haven't picked up the Lily Bard series - check it out!

If you like these, you will love the Harper Connelly series, Sookie Stackhouse series, and Aurora Teagarden series - I read all of those, then started these, and am...
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Lily Bard chose Shakespeare, Arkansas as a place to start fresh and create a place for herself. Afterall, her last name is Bard. But Shakespeare is having problems: there's a flu running through the town's citizens, Darnell Glass was beaten to...
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