Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

Well I reckon you did well to get to about halfway, 272 pages makes that around 136 pages or so. I'm on page 94 and have been feeling very similar for several pages. In fact I haven't picked it up for ages and I'm not sure I'll finish it. 

Stephen Fry's quote in the front 'Funny, wicked, naughty, eye-popping and compulsively joyously brilliant' does tie in with my reading of it, maybe I'm not in the 'in crowd'?

Might lash out full price on latest Logan McRae, but that's got mixed reviews!

Just in time for our trip to Cornwall I managed to pick up Kate Atkinson's latest Jackson Brodie adventure "Big Sky" from our local library. It's the fifth and, I believe, the last, in the series based around her accident-prone private detective.  She is such a clever writer - you never know how many separate stories are interlinked in her books until pretty much the end.

Good holiday reading - a lot lighter than most other detective stories.  If you haven't come across them yet I can certainly recommend them, but go back to the first story - "Case Histories" and read them in order to really appreciate them. 

Just finished it and can thoroughly recommended it. Will have to look out for the next 2 by Rachel Joyce.

I picked up a copy of "Natural Causes" by James Oswald from our site book swap the other day. The first in a series featuring Inspector Tony McLean. Set in Edinburgh I was expecting it to be a bit of a Rebus rip off. But it's quite different,  not as intricate as Rebus, not as humorous as Logan McRae. Oswald is a horror writer turned detective writer and there's a bit of the supernatural in this book. Now on the second in the series "The Book of Souls" which is a more traditional whodunit. Good stuff if you like that sort of thing (which I do!) 

Great series, M. I'm waiting for No.6 to appear in a charity shop or drop to 99p on Kindle, but I think that I'll have a long wait. Have you tried any by Pete Brassett's DI Munro series. The first - She- is just a "get to know to main characters" really but the rest are easy reading and follow on. They are sited around Dumfries and Ayr, using actual locations.

No, haven't come across that series yet. I'll keep my eyes peeled for them. Mind you, I've got the latest Logan McRae and David Raker books waiting at the library when we go home and the Tom Thorne reserved so that'll keep me going for a little while! 

For those out there who haven't read any of Stuart McBride's Logan MacRae series of detective books the first in the series, Cold Granite, is on sale at Kindle for 99p at the moment. Can highly recommend the whole series, especially if you like gritty detective books with a sense of humour.

I can only agree with nelliethehooker post above. Very readable.

I'm waiting on the latest one from this year - might have to pay in full as not been cheap on Kindle and haven't found it in a charity shop yet!

I have the brand new one "All that's dead" waiting in the library for me - 95p to reserve - bargain! 

I enjoy my political biographies ( of all colours!) Just finished Gordon Brown's "My Life,OurTimes". It was a long read and it has taken me quite a while to get through it. For obvious reasons I can't really go into details but perhaps one observation could be allowed that I was not convinced, from what he wrote, that he was comfortable being PM. 

Now reading something completely different, Nora Krug's, Heimat, will report back.

David