January 2018 Book for Group Discussion : Nominations

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January 2018 Book for Group Discussion : Nominations

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1Andrew-theQM
dec 28, 2017, 11:05 am

What book would you like to see the group reading as a Group Read in January 2018?

Anyone can nominate one book or two. This is a time to read a Mystery and Suspense book you have wanted to read for a long time or one that has been sitting on your shelf for oh so long! Or alternatively a time to read a book by an author new to you or one of the old favourite authors.

Nominations close : Friday 29th December
Voting : Saturday 30th - Sunday 31st December

A new thread will be set up for voting in the early hours of Saturday.

If making a recommendation please be willing to read and discuss the book with the group once the Question Master has posted the questions on each section.

In recommending a book include it's title, author, whether it is a standalone or in a series, along with a brief description of the book.

2EadieB
dec 28, 2017, 11:40 am

The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) by Elly Griffiths
Book Description
Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich's web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they are recent - the boiling not the medieval curiosity she thought - DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands.

Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper. The only trace of her is the rumour that she's gone 'underground'. This might be a figure of speech, but with the discovery of the bones and the rumours both Ruth and the police have heard of a vast network of old chalk-mining tunnels under King's Lynn, home to a vast community of rough sleepers, the clues point in only one direction. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history - but can his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true?

As the weather gets hotter, tensions rise. A local woman goes missing and the police are under attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart - before it claims another victim.

3EadieB
dec 28, 2017, 11:41 am

Cold Earth (Shetland Island #7) by Ann Cleeves
Book Description
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea.

At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity.

Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house. Perez knows he must find out who she was, and how she died.

4Andrew-theQM
dec 28, 2017, 11:54 am

>2 EadieB: >3 EadieB: How do you choose between these two? 😂

5EadieB
dec 28, 2017, 12:23 pm

>4 Andrew-theQM: You choose this one:
The Seagull (Vera Stanhope #8) by Ann Cleeves
Book Description
A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a key part in his downfall.

Now, Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, and that his body is buried close to St Mary’s Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two.

This cold case case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as ‘the Prof’, were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were the 'Gang of Four’, regulars at a glamorous nightclub called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide dangerously with the present, Vera confronts her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth . . .

The Seagull is a searing new novel by Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and fragile, and fracturing, family relationships.

6Andrew-theQM
dec 28, 2017, 12:29 pm

>5 EadieB: And the plot thickens 😂😂😂

7Carol420
dec 28, 2017, 3:42 pm

If I Run by Terri Blackstock
Book 1 in the If I Run series

Book Description:
Casey knows the truth. But it won’t set her free.

Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene. There’s no use talking to police; they’ve failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she’s arrested . . . or worse. The truth doesn’t matter anymore. But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren’t adding up.

Casey Cox doesn’t fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan’s skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn’t guilty, why did she run? Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he has, but as Dylan’s damaged soul intersects with hers, he is faced with two choices: the girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. And the truth could be the most deadly weapon yet.

8Carol420
dec 28, 2017, 3:54 pm

Dead Reckoning by Linda Castillo
Standalone

Book Description:
Assistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case of her career when someone starts sending her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows her deep, dark secret. Now, she needs the help of Frank Matrone--an investigator with his own shadowy past--or else Kate may have no chance of surviving a killer's brutal wrath.

9gaylebutz
dec 28, 2017, 4:26 pm

Winter at the Door (Lizzie Snow #1) by Sarah Graves

A twisted secret lies in the desolate backwoods of Allagash County. -- Moving from Boston to Bearkill, Maine, isn't homicide cop Lizzie Snow's idea of a step up. A rash of freak accidents and suicides has left a string of dead men, all former local cops. Now the eyes that watched them die are on Lizzie, and the pressure is on to find out who this monster is, and just how brutally he'll play to win.

10bhabeck
Redigeret: dec 29, 2017, 5:06 am

Iron House by John Hart

An old man is dying.
When the old man is dead they will come for him.
And they will come for her, to make him hurt.

John Hart delivers his fourth novel -- a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget.

He would go to Hell
At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn’t won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him.

To keep her safe...
For two decades, Michael has been an enforcer in New York’s world of organized crime, a prince of the streets so widely feared he rarely has to kill anymore. But the life he’s fought to build unravels when he meets Elena, a beautiful innocent who teaches him the meaning and power of love. He wants a fresh start with her, the chance to start a family like the one he and Julian never had. But someone else is holding the strings. And escape is not that easy. . . .

Go to Hell, and come back burning....
The mob boss who gave Michael his blessing to begin anew is dying, and his son is intent on making Michael pay for his betrayal. Determined to protect the ones he loves, Michael spirits Elena—who knows nothing of his past crimes, or the peril he’s laid at her door— back to North Carolina, to the place he was born and the brother he lost so long ago. There, he will encounter a whole new level of danger, a thicket of deceit and violence that leads inexorably to the one place he’s been running from his whole life: Iron House.

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