What Fiction are you reading this week, October 27, 2024?

[hermetic]

I early-voted Wednesday. Best idea ever. Relieved me of so much stress.

Still reading The Cabinet of Dr. Leng. Such an intricate tale.

Listening to White Fire, from 2013, also by Preston & Child. Pendergast meets Holmes. A great story read by a great reader, Rene Auberjonois. 5 out of 5 stars for me. Perfectly creepy.

Have a safe and fun Halloween.

[brer cat]

1. I'm finishing Steve Berry's Warsaw Protocol. He is a very good

writer, but he does go into a lot more history than I sometimes want to read when setting up his current day novels. Up next, Joseph Finder "Suspicion."

Awaiting the new Louse Penny, but the hold list is long at my library.

[hermetic]

3. Likewise on Penny's new book.

Oh boy oh boy boy!!! Can't wait.

That Suspicion sounds really good.

[cbabe]

8. Speaking of Louise Penny,

I also reread ‘State of Terror’. She co-authored with Hillary Clinton.

Reads like yesterday’s headlines. Magats and t and Putin.

Some Gamache and Three Pines when the plot winds too tense.

Top Canadian spy master in moose and bear pjs. Mais oui.

So much better than I remembered. Now that I’m more educated and can catch all the subtle politics.

[txwhitedove]

2. Happy Halloween to you. I finally finished Stephanie Dray's wonderful historical fiction of

The Women of Chateau Lafayette. Poor France was shredded by wars for past 200 years. It seems we are all called in life to be heros in our own way and time.

After that, a much needed visit with Chet and Bernie in Bark to the Future, Spencer Quinn. Laugh at the titles if you will, but the mysteries are serious, with great humor and insight. A former high school baseball teammate of Bernie's goes missing, and he and Chet "are plunged into a dangerous case where the past isn't dead and future could be fatal."

Next will be something spooky for Halloween week. Wishing you treats and good reading.

[hermetic]

4. I like that title

Sadly my library doesn't have that one yet.

Thanks...

[Bayard]

5. Finished, "The Rising Sea," last night

Clive Cussler.

I finally put, "The Witch Elm," aside.

[cbabe]

6. New thriller series I found by chance on the library shelf:

T. J. Newman

‘Falling’ 2021

‘You will crash the plane or we will kill your family.’ ‘I will not crash the plane and you will not kill my family.’

‘Drowning: the rescue of flight 1421’ 2023

Crash into the ocean and there are survivors. ‘I can’t swim.’

‘Worst Case Scenario’ 2024

Plane crashes into nuclear power plant. Author’s real life exchange with a pilot:‘I thought those plants were protected.’ ‘That’s what they want you to think.’

Best I’ve read in a long time. Breathtaking thrillers. All plane disasters. Author was a flight attendant for ten years. And a bookseller. She keeps the tension high, the characters real.

Don’t start reading until you get off the plane.

[rsdsharp]

7. I'm reading the new Reacher book by Lee and Andrew Child -- In Too Deep.

Reacher wakes up in the dark, with all his limbs handcuffed to a table, a headache and a broken wrist, and has no idea how he got there.

Pretty standard Reacher book. I’m about halfway through, and enjoying it so far.

[japple]

9. Still reading The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent. It has been good reading but is

starting to drag at about 3/4 way through.

t's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate's buried treasure.

Meanwhile, Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women, and even children across the frontier.

Who -- if anyone -- will survive when their paths finally cross? As Lucinda and Nate's stories converge, guns are drawn, debts are paid, and Kathleen Kent delivers an unforgettable portrait of a woman who will stop at nothing to make a new life for herself.

Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic. Happy Halloween!