Crime, Thrillers, Horror and Mystery Recommendations

jingla · Post by **jingla** » 25 Nov 2011, 21:58

Hey Scotty. Read this really cool book Dark Arising by an African writer Olujimi Ojikutu. It was actually a fun read. it was the horror /romance genre from an entirely new perspective with modern themes of Action and Suspence.
Guess everyone shld check it out.

-- 25 Nov 2011, 21:58 --

Hey Scotty. Read this really cool book Dark Arising by an African writer Olujimi Ojikutu. It was actually a fun read. it was the horror /romance genre from an entirely new perspective with modern themes of Action and Suspence.
Guess everyone shld check it out.

-- 25 Nov 2011, 21:59 --

Hey Scotty. Read this really cool book Dark Arising by an African writer Olujimi Ojikutu. It was actually a fun read. it was the horror /romance genre from an entirely new perspective with modern themes of Action and Suspence.
Guess everyone shld check it out.

-- 25 Nov 2011, 22:00 --

Hey Scotty. Read this really cool book Dark Arising by an African writer Olujimi Ojikutu. It was actually a fun read. it was the horror /romance genre from an entirely new perspective with modern themes of Action and Suspence.
Guess everyone shld check it out.

-- 25 Nov 2011, 22:00 --

Hey Scotty. Read this really cool book Dark Arising by an African writer Olujimi Ojikutu. It was actually a fun read. it was the horror /romance genre from an entirely new perspective with modern themes of Action and Suspence.
Guess everyone shld check it out.

EthelredTheUnready · Post by **EthelredTheUnready** » 26 Nov 2011, 09:00

Here's to recommend 'The Case of the Russian Chessboard: a Sherlock Holmes mystery only now revealed' by Charlie Roxburgh. I know I’m not the only one who finds this recent book a good cut above many new Sherlock Holmes stories. It gets right the traditional Sherlock Holmes doom-laden atmosphere in a foggy Victorian London. It’s an exciting tale with repeated twists and turns and very dark indeed. The plot takes you into an intriguing world – Victorian London’s conspiratorial Russian exile community - with quite some food for thought. Might suit book group discussion because of angles alongside the story like politics and Victorian feminists – and because it’s not too long.
In paperback by MX Publishing and on Amazon. Also on Kindle, so anyone can read the intro chapter free.

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 08 Dec 2011, 18:59

Just for my own interest, I have started to read the current, supposedly top, crime thriller mystery writers available today. So far I've been disappointed and can see why I've never bothered to read some of them. The latest is Michael Koryta and "The Silent Hour". If there is a fan out there who can justify this boring work of fiction, I'd like to read your post. I am up to Chapter 18 and nothing, repeat nothing, has happened. Lincoln Perry seems to drift along aimlessly, bumping into an assortment of characters without getting clues from them. When a plot development does happen, the build up is excruciatingly slow. Maybe I'm being harsh and real detective work is this monotonous but Michael Koryta's amateurish attempt to document it does nothing for my imagination.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 09 Dec 2011, 05:39

^ I love the new avatar, Maud

Mel Carriere · Post by **Mel Carriere** » 18 Dec 2011, 20:32

What is the word on the "retired" Stephen King's latest, 11/22/63? Anybody read it yet? I stumbled across this in Costco the other day.

hammerforthemasses · Post by **hammerforthemasses** » 17 Jan 2012, 14:47

Chicago 27 Blood Games by a local (Denver) named Matt Saunders... It’s a mob/detective type. It has great characters, great story, and awesome dialog. Highly recommend it.

Its your typical mob story - detectives, henchmen, mayor, people on the take... the usual, but fun!

guytwo · Post by **guytwo** » 21 Jan 2012, 09:27

Anybody read true crime, if so here are two nonfiction that I highly recommend.

First is "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters" by James W. Douglass a great book about the JFK murder and a lot of new information about the Cold War. Totally fascinating and hard to put down.

Second is the book that prompted a fascinating 2011 PBS series about Prohibition. The book is "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" by Daniel Okrent another hard to put down true crime book. A very interesting look at the politics behind Prohibition and its corrupting influence on Americas' society. Very relevant in todays War on Drugs in its corrupting influence and failures - many parallels.

Both are excellent history books as well as true crime books, double your pleasure.

Va_treehugger · Post by **Va_treehugger** » 15 Feb 2012, 02:21

C.J. Boxx - Open Season - Murder mystery taking place in Wyoming. Involves Game Warden Joe Pickett trying to save endangered species and his family. I highly recommend this book series.

guytwo · Post by **guytwo** » 15 Feb 2012, 09:00

I'm reading this book, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. a very interesting look at what is really the birth of atomic physics, some great science history, and the race to make an atomic bomb before the Germans did.

sandman · Post by **sandman** » 25 Feb 2012, 14:55

would like to reccommed
tom piccirilli - a choir of ill children & november mourns (horror/thriller)
james sallis - drive & death will have your eyes (thriller)
david peace - 1974/1977/1980/1983 (crime)
cormac mccarthy - no county for old men (thriller)

peace and good karma

Phantom Kendra · Post by **Phantom Kendra** » 06 Mar 2012, 21:15

I just got done reading a book entitled "Bones" by Jan Burke. Its won the Edgar Award. It follows the story of a journalist who is recruited to travel with a murder, his guards, cadaver dogs, a botanist, and a forensic anthropologist. The journalist helps uncover the body they were in search of but in the end the murder had something more planned for her.
I found it to be a gripping read and there were a lot of twists that i wasn't expecting. I recommend it to anyone who has the stomach for descriptive (paint a picture) writing.

artist39 · Post by **artist39** » 16 Mar 2012, 08:37

Phantom Kendra wrote:I just got done reading a book entitled "Bones" by Jan Burke. Its won the Edgar Award. It follows the story of a journalist who is recruited to travel with a murder, his guards, cadaver dogs, a botanist, and a forensic anthropologist. The journalist helps uncover the body they were in search of but in the end the murder had something more planned for her.
I found it to be a gripping read and there were a lot of twists that i wasn't expecting. I recommend it to anyone who has the stomach for descriptive (paint a picture) writing.

Sounds like a good read, Phantom Kendra. Hopefully it's an ebook cos I've switched to ebook reading on amazon. I recommend an ebook entitled The Undeparted, it's a title and a series, by deborah palumbo. It's a real twist on a vampire mystery; definitely not the same old kind of story. I was pleasantly surprised; love twists and it's got them!

Phantom Kendra · Post by **Phantom Kendra** » 16 Mar 2012, 17:03

artist39 wrote:
Phantom Kendra wrote:I just got done reading a book entitled "Bones" by Jan Burke. Its won the Edgar Award. It follows the story of a journalist who is recruited to travel with a murder, his guards, cadaver dogs, a botanist, and a forensic anthropologist. The journalist helps uncover the body they were in search of but in the end the murder had something more planned for her.
I found it to be a gripping read and there were a lot of twists that i wasn't expecting. I recommend it to anyone who has the stomach for descriptive (paint a picture) writing.
Sounds like a good read, Phantom Kendra. Hopefully it's an ebook cos I've switched to ebook reading on amazon. I recommend an ebook entitled The Undeparted, it's a title and a series, by deborah palumbo. It's a real twist on a vampire mystery; definitely not the same old kind of story. I was pleasantly surprised; love twists and it's got them!

Thanks I'll check that out. I believe "Bones"comes in an ebook (if it doesn't thats lame).

verbals · Post by **verbals** » 17 Mar 2012, 10:29

Hi, new to the forum, and I read through this thread first, because I am a lover of noir novels. Apologies if I missed them being mentioned, but the writers that I would consider the essentials of the American crime novel were absent from the discussion. Noir, to me, is one of the true American art forms, with Jazz and the Blues. Is it unfair to say that it is a neglected art form in the US? I get that impression. After all, noir was a term coined in France (natch) by enthusiasts who nurtured a love of noir and ended up "selling the idea back" to the States. The great writers, and some favourite books, of noir would be;

Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key)
Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Farewell, My Lovely)
Jim Thomson (The Getaway, The Grifters, The Killer Inside Me)
John D. MacDonald (The Executioners, A Tan and Sandy Silence, The Quick, Red Fox)
James Crumley (Dancing Bear, Mexican Tree Duck, Bordersnakes)
Elmore Leonard (Glitz, LaBrava, Split Images)
James Ellroy (The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz)