Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

Funnily enough, Nellie, I had a book waiting for me at the library for pick up today that's one of Meyrick's, The Last Witness. It will have to wait a while though as I have 2 others before that one.

Have to keep an eye out for later in the year when Michael Connelly brings a new Jack McEvoy book out. Does the man never stop?

Mrs WN has been downloading books from the e-library. She 's now read the first 5 of Simon Brett's Mrs.Pargetter series and has often been heard guffawing. She's not too keen on any of his other series but it might be worth checking this series out as it's quite light hearted.

I've just finished Salt Lane and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've just noticed that it's available on Kindle for  99p tonight. Although it's the first in the DS Cupidi series it follows on from The Birdwatcher, and is again based around Dungeness.

The 7th in the Denzil Meryick  books based on Kintyre is also 99p today on Kindle.

Just finished and really enjoyed a book by S.G.MacClean called Destroying Angel. It's the third book in the series about Damian Seeker, one of the enforcers in post Cromwell Revolutionary England. It's very well written and anyone who enjoys their historically based fiction will like it. Fans of C.J.Sansom or Rory Clements should take a look. 

The author also has another series on the go The Alexander Seaton series, also very good reading.

Mousley wrote many posts ago that he was reading Ann Cleaves (author of Vera) new detective book, The Long Call. I have just finished it, good read. Great to read a book about the area where you live, she describes the area in good detail. Crow Point, Ilfracombe, Braunton and Barnstaple. If you are visiting the area on holiday it's an even more interesting read. Our walks are often to Crow Point, I found myself trying to place exactly where the body was found!

I started the Stuart McBride 'Logan McRae' series whilst in Spain. Very enjoyable with gritty humour and macabre methods of murdering numerous residents of Aberdeen per book. More dangerous than Midsomer as a place to live!

My favourite books, mostly out of print now, are 'The House on the Strand' by Daphne du Maurier, and a series of 3 humorous books written by 2 former journalists under the nom de plume David Forrest, 'After Me the Deluge'; 'The Great Dinosaur Robbery' [adapted as a Disney Film 'One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing']; and, last, but not least, the wonderfully titled 'And To My Nephew Albert, I Leave The Island What I Won Off Fatty Hagan In A Poker Game'.

Steve

Did you hear Ann Cleeves talking about her life on Desert Island Discs not long ago, it was interesting to hear about the various places she called home. I think her Dad was a teacher in N Devon so she spent some time there. 

Steve, two of the David Forrest books, "To my nephew.....", and "After me...." are available on Kindle, as is "The House on the Strand".

I used to have a very good drinking buddy who came from Aberdeen. Sadly no longer with us. He used to go to sleep as if laid out in a coffin, every night, drunk or sober and in fact owned a coffin which he used on several occasions as a make shift bed! If he was anything to go by then they do indeed breed them weird in Aberdeen.

If he spoke with a full Aberdeen accent, or Doric, it's wonder you could make out what he was saying, especially after a jar or two!!!😁

After a jar or two it was the only time anyone could understand him, or thought we could.

Actually I remember now why he had a coffin. He dad was an undertaker!