Good Books

[Super Gus!]

Can anyone recommend some decent fiction books or authors, just finished my current one and I'm looking for another?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Ides of March - Manfreddi

 

[Lady Whistledown]

What sort of thing do you like? Any particular genre/author?

 

[Super Gus!]

i like crime, thrillers, mystery that sort of thing. probably get flamed but read the Dan Brown books and the Stieg Larsson books.

 

[Cheshire]

Depends what style if you like crime/thriller types ones I have enjoyed this year are by authors:

Simon Beckett, Val McDermid, Linwood Barclay and Brighton's own detective series by Peter James - but books by these authors are best sellers so I might be stating the obvious ones you have read.

 

[Icy Gull]

I really enjoyed this and it's the right genre from your list above

Craig Russell Author - The Lennox Novels

 

[Rookie]

One that grabbed me on a recommendation was One Day by David Nicholls.
Don't really fit in with your genre but didn't think I would like it either. Or anything by PJ Tracey

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Hmmm, well if you like crime/thriller types then Robert Harris is worth looking at.

I love Fatherland, it's arguably my favourite book ever.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatherland-Robert-Harris/dp/0099263815

 

[Easy 10]

As Cheshire mentioned, the Peter James ones about Roy Grace, the Brighton based detective are very good. He namechecks practically every road and street in the city, so you always know exactly where everything is being played out.

The last one I read had women being forced to stick stilletto heels up their arses and minkys, which was nice.

 

[Manny]

As Cheshire mentioned, the Peter James ones about Roy Grace, the Brighton based detective are very good. He namechecks practically every road and street in the city, so you always know exactly where everything is being played out.

The last one I read had women being forced to stick stilletto heels up their arses and minkys, which was nice.

Agree, Roy Grace books are good.
Another partly Brighton based book that should come under fiction/crime - Leon Knight.

 

[Super Gus!]

Hmmm, well if you like crime/thriller types then Robert Harris is worth looking at.

I love Fatherland, it's arguably my favourite book ever.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatherland-Robert-Harris/dp/0099263815

might give this one a go, sounds pretty interesting and something a bit different! nice one cheers!

 

[withdeanwombat]

Have you tried the Louie Knight mysteries by Malcolm Pryce,eg "Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth". You get crime and a laugh.Not to everyones' taste,but I've read them all and found them pretty good.

I expect you've tried Jeffery Deaver,Michael Connelly and Mark Billingham.

I particularly liked the Philip Kerr "Berlin Noir" set.........crime in Nazi Germany,and a decent feel for the era,also the follow up set in South America after the war.Excellent stuff,I thought,though of course others may think my selections are rubbish.

 

[lizard]

Don Delillo or Chuck Palahniuk for me.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

John Grisham.

Finest author out there for what he does, legal thrillers. Personally, I would suggest Runaway Jury, Pelican Brief and Brethren as his best 3, but I've not yet finished A time to kill.

 

[lucky007]

Girl with the dragon tattoo, good book!

 

[brighton_girl87]

Andrew Gross, Greg Iles, John Case and James Patterson (although his Alex Cross books are getting somewhat tedious now)

 

[Storer68]

top fiction this......

and this is quite short.....

 

[Super Gus!]

Also read Public Enemies and Helter Skelter both really good. Any other good true crime books?

 

[Gwylan]

Girl with the dragon tattoo, good book!

Agreed, the Larsson books are real page-turners but hasn't everyone read them now?

I'll endorse Edna's choice of Robert Harris (except Archangel which I thought was tedious). In fact, I have Lustrum for my holiday read.

Have you tried CJ Sansom's historical whodunnits? First one is set in Sussex and is excellent.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Hmmm, well if you like crime/thriller types then Robert Harris is worth looking at.

I love Fatherland, it's arguably my favourite book ever.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatherland-Robert-Harris/dp/0099263815

agreed