Hey guys, as you can see I'm very busy doing ebay (NOT). As soon as I stopped doing ebay, Chane has left me alone. I guess he's just in competition with books!
Wanted to add some books I enjoyed...
Just read my first Iris Johansen (sp?), The Killing Game - great suspense! I'll be looking for more of hers. Someone at the library recommended her when we were talking about how hard it is to read all of the books by your favorite authors and be left wanting more.
Below are my other favorite authors/series - most are suspense stories but I can't get into mystery and suspense unless there are other things going on between the characters that are more personal. I've read every book by most of these authors so I'm always scouting around for a different series (altho sometimes it's good for me not to have a book because if I get to into it I don't get much else done).
John Lescroart - my current obsession - all the books involve the same characters but different ones take center stage in each book - law suspense (but not hard to follow like Grisham which I can't get thru) - titles include The Hearing, The Mercy Rule
Jan Karon - the Mitford series - NOT suspense or mystery. Very heartwarming, homey series about a small town pastor, his congregation and the other people in town - this is the series that brought me back to believing in God - very inspirational - every person I've told about these who reads them is hooked and feels better after reading them (only one not to read is The Wedding because it is kind of a rehash of another of the books) - titles include At Home in Mitford, These High Green Hills
Sue Grafton - Kinsey Milhone series - woman PI always with a subplot or two about continuing characters who are complex and likeable (book title include A is for Alibi, M is for Murder, etc - she is up to R I think)
Robert Parker - Spenser series - awesome! Dh and I read these and then went back and read them all in order. Very quick reads about a smart aleck detective who ages along with the author. His books span so many years and are so popular that there is even a tour set up in Boston where they take place and you can go see the places he mentions in his books - Scott and I both want to take it one day. Titles include Pasttime, Double Deuce, Chance - if you read The Godwulf Manuscript which is the first in the series, and don't like it still give the second one a chance because The Godwulf Manuscript isn't as good as the others
Johnathan Kellerman - serious dramatic suspense - main character is a child psychologist who helps the police out. Title include
The Murder Book,
Billy Straight (HIGHLY recommend this one, it's about a homeless little boy who sees a murder and you really fall in love with the kid)
Janet Evanovich - the Stephanie Plum series - these are funny stories about an inept female big-hair Jersey girl bounty hunter. Titles - One for the Money, Four to Score, Ten Big Ones - I've read the none Stephanie Plum novels and didn't really like them. All the Stephanie Plum novels start with a number (she's on number 11 now I think)
Mary Higgins Clark - suspense that's not that hard to figure out but always has a warm substory too. Titles include Where Are the Children? and All Around the Town. She also has a humorous series about a bungling housekeeper-turned-lottery-millionaire detective that is totally different than her other books but fun to read
Jeffery Deaver (wrote The Bone Collector which was awesome but I haven't seen the movie - it is probably lame) - suspense with lots and lots of twists - most are based on a quadraplegic crime scene investigator (Lincoln Rhyme) who works from his home and uses a team of other investigators to do his legwork but his other books are good too. Other titles are A Maiden's Grave, The Empty Chair
Anne George - Southern Sisters series - hysterical and heartwarming adventures of two sisters in their 60's in Alabama in current time (am really bummed because I read them all and was looking forward to the next one and found out the author just died in the past couple of years). These are more humorous and personal than suspense even tho they keep stumbling over dead bodies. Titles include Murder Boogies with Elvis, Murder Shoots the Bull
Michael Connelly - suspense stories that feature different detectives that occasionally cross each other's paths (like one book will be about one guy, and another will be about a different guy but he might be working with the guy in the first book) - titles include City of Bones and The Poet
Dean Koontz - some of his are awesome, some stink. Suspense - good ones include House of Thunder, Watchers, and Lightning
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