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Thank you for this! I never read mysteries until about a year ago, and am always looking for another good author. I have the Libby app on my iPad Mini and just put a hold on her first book.
In the Eighties I got hooked on Jonathan Kellerman. He's a former child psychiatrist who writes about recurring characters and generally they are involved in a mystery that has as its theme some form of psychiatric disorder.
At that time he was turning out about a book a year of very well-written material. It was just like Christmas every time his new book came out. And the underlying theme of his character's lives and their own stories were a bonus.
[quote=CA4Now;53694317]French has a new one out, The Witch Elm. It looks good!
^^ I just finished this, and it was my first Tana French novel. What a book, really.... it was hard take a break each time. I just recommended it to a friend for a long holiday road trip. I listened on audible and the readers voice was excellent as well.
Has anyone else read, or listened to it yet?
I’ll be absorbing it all day
In the Eighties I got hooked on Jonathan Kellerman. He's a former child psychiatrist who writes about recurring characters and generally they are involved in a mystery that has as its theme some form of psychiatric disorder.
At that time he was turning out about a book a year of very well-written material. It was just like Christmas every time his new book came out. And the underlying theme of his character's lives and their own stories were a bonus.
Thanks for your suggestion.
I too read J Kellerman's books...probably most of them...
^^ I just finished this, and it was my first Tana French novel. What a book, really.... it was hard take a break each time. I just recommended it to a friend for a long holiday road trip. I listened on audible and the readers voice was excellent as well.
Has anyone else read, or listened to it yet?
I just got it from the library (4 holds ahead of mine). I'm actually finding it a little hard to get into so far.
Based on this thread I got the first Dublin Murder Squad book, In the Woods. I'm about a quarter of the way through it and I'm already hooked! Thanks for the great recommendation. I see what several posters have noted - even if the story wasn't compelling (which it is), she writes beautifully. It's also unusual to read a book written in the first person by an author of the opposite sex. Not that I mind in the least, it's just unusual. She does it particularly well.
I did, too, but stay with it. It's not like the others, but it will pull you in if you don't give up.
You're right. I think that when it was revealed on the book cover jacket that
Spoiler
Toby was going to be attacked and left for dead by two burglars early in the story
...it was difficult to read French's long and detailed conversations between the characters, anticipating what was about to happen. (I'm halfway through the novel now.)
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