frexpt Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 With the exception of a couple of books we haven't been able to get hold of yet, Mrs F & I have just about worked our way through the Jack Reacher series of novels by Lee Child. Question is....what to read next........any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I was similarly affected- there is no one quite like Reacher, but I found David Baldacci's Sean King/Michele Maxwell series and Micheal Connellys Harry Bosch series very enjoyable. Currently reading The Scarecrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexpt Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 Many thanks for the suggestions, I don't think either of us have read these. Incidentally, I was half expecting a response from you, as I had searched the forum before posting and found a previous reference to Reacher by you back in 2009.........[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I was sent the latest Bosch book first, which is not ideal, but even so I'm enjoying the series, actually much more realistic than Reacher, and more of a slow build too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Yes, I have read them all except for the last one which my daughter stole before I could get to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginia.c Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 You can't beat Rebus. And unlike many authors who go off the boil, Rankin's last two were the best of the bunch. Michael Connolly excellent too.I've just downloaded a couple of Stephen Leather's too. I had never heard of him and IMHO he can't compare with Rankin, but i enjoyed them. The hero is ex SAS.Peter Robinson good although his characters and storylines cannot be compared with the heroic and completely marvellous Reacher!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexpt Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 [quote user="virginia.c"]You can't beat Rebus. And unlike many authors who go off the boil, Rankin's last two were the best of the bunch. [/quote]I started reading the Rebus novels when we moved to Scotland and agree that the series got better and better. Not so sure, thoiugh, that the post-Rebus work holds up as well....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 [quote user="woolybanana"]Yes, I have read them all except for the last one which my daughter stole before I could get to it![/quote]Die Trying ?What dissapointed me slightly was the lack of depth of the explanation as to how he escaped from where he was left in the book before [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexpt Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 [quote user="Russethouse"][quote user="woolybanana"]Yes, I have read them all except for the last one which my daughter stole before I could get to it![/quote]Die Trying ?What dissapointed me slightly was the lack of depth of the explanation as to how he escaped from where he was left in the book before [8-)] [/quote]Just finishing 61 Hours and think follow on is Worth Dying For? Is that the one you mean? Die Trying, if I recall, involves the claustrophobic crawl through the tunnel.........hated it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Yep, you are right...tunnels are a bit of a theme aren't they........I guess you have never read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Tha last one I had but never read was The Reversal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 You are talking about Micheal Connelly ? I really enjoyed it, it kind of follows on from 9 dragons, in so far that events that took place in one that are mentioned again but my copy is already winging its way to a friend in Normandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeJay Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Agreed, can't beat Rebus!I recently found him by accident and was smitten, so much so that I have just received 6 second hand books bought from Amazon.fr. I reckon he's the "Sweeney" of the literary world!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexpt Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Okay....so we are broadly agreed on REAcher and REBus. Approaching this connundrum obliquely, perhaps we need to identfiy a hero whose name starts REC****.............[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginia.c Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Well i'm stumped.... Am v jealous of CJ who is new to Rebus. I just wish another writer of Rankin's calibre would pop up from somewhere with a series already written. I would take myself off somewhere peaceful and not move for several weeks!Clare Francis was never prolific but she wrote 2 or 3 good thrillers. As a teenager i was enthralled by early Gavin Lyall and Victor Canning, then Desmond Bagley. We will never see their like again, more's the pity.Do agree with the comments about Rankin's new series, The Complaints etc. Just not quite got it have they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pommier Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Peter James writes pretty good detective books - I especially enjoyed the first one I read called Dead Simple.Mark Billingham's books aren't bad either - I much prefer UK based stories as I find it hard to relate to American stories.I'm a bit bored with detective stories as the moment and have been looking out for stuff that's a bit different. Lately I've really enjoyed Life of Pi, Sister, Child 44 and Birdsong.The Richard & Judy booklist is a good way of chosing books that are a bit different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeJay Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 virginia c.Wifey has just finished one of the Jacquot series by Martin O'Brien, there are 4 in the series I think. She praised this one very highly and is now determined to get all the others. The series is about a Detective in Provence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginia.c Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Thanks CJ i will have a look out for this author... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianagain Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 John Harvey, crime novels featuring DI Charlie Resnick set in Nottingham.Brian (again)Can Jack Reacher really exist on just a fold up toothbrush and not much else - except enough money to buy new clothes every couple of days? (Must have got used to flying with Ryanair perhaps?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Hello to Everyone,I've just joined the forum and have been interested in your discussion. I know I'm late catching up with them, but I've recently read the Inspector Brunetti books of Donna Leon, (written in the 90s, most of them). They are set in Venice, are wonderfully atmospheric and the hero is a happily married, family man. Yet the books have their whiff or even total stink of corruption and are full of murders of convenience. They are a great read, there are over 20 of them if you become addicted, as I did, and Leon writes so well. go for it, I'd say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeJay Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Welcome to the Forum and thanks for the recommendation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianagain Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 A new author to me and recommended by, among others, Lee Child, is Rick Mofina, whose character is a young investigative journalist working in the Seattle area. I've just finish the first and about to start another. Good stuff.I would second the recommendation of the Brunetti novels by Donna Leon having also read them all. The books are very popular in Germany and most of the novels have been filmed for German television and are shown regularly on Das Erste - beautiful location scenes in Venice and well cast actors, especially Uwe Kockisch as Brunetti. I believe they have also been transmitted on FR3 some time ago but would hope they might be reshown again sometime. Sadly I don't think they will make it to British tv as they are in a foreign language and it's much easier to fill the schedules with series imported from the US. Oddly I read somewhere that Donna Leon's books have never been translated into Italian.http://programmes.france3.fr/commissaire-brunetti/index.php?page=article&numsite=5597&id_rubrique=5606&id_article=17129Brian (again)Edit; Donna Leon's Blood from a Stone will be shown on ARD on 12 Feb at 2015 if you can get German TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renaud Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Elvis Cole and Joe Pike from Robert Crais are up there with Harry Bosch and co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm glad to know of someone else who has enjoyed Brunetti, Thanks for the info. My German is pretty rusty, so I'm not sure how much I'd get out of the TV series, on the other hand I've read the book...... I'll have to find out if I can get ARD.I read too that Leon's books were not translated into Italian. She'd be pretty unpopular in Venice where she lives or probably a victim of the people she writes about. With all that stuff about the Italian president going on just now, you know exactly what she's talking about. Are the Italians just too lethargic to care? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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