clydegirl

You should read the Alex Delaware mysteries by Jonathan Kellerman.Really good.

Wendy

Yes, I've read Angels and demons to, but I preferred the Da Vinci Code.

I have also read all of Martina Cole's book but Lady Killer is my favourite.

Wendy

I was going to start on them, but then either Martina Cole, James Patterson or Mark Billingham bring another out and I get side tracked into buying them instead

clydegirl

If you're going to read them start with the first one" When The Bough Breaks" or else you will miss things that happen in his life.

Wendy

Will do. Thanks it would have taken me ages to find out which was first

webgum

It's neither. A historical reference book, well written to boot. Must have taken him years to research it. Huge though, I'm reading a few pages a night and although I seem to have been reading it for months, I'm not half way through!

CatherineJones

Just finished reading my first Mark Billingham, the Burning Girl. if anyone likes police crime books this is an excellent read. Can also recommend any of the Patrica Cornwell or Minette Walters books.

clydegirl

You're welcome.

Think there's 17 Delaware books.Always a page turner.

232Bar

I always preferred Alex Cross by Patterson to Alex Delaware by Kellerman. Light reading/humour is always taken care of by Terry Pratchett. I've read all the Dan Brown books and the usual 'time to kill' books (Cornwell, Reichs, Grisham, Deaver et al). Ones which stick in my mind are 'Schindlers Ark' by Tom Keneally, this was it's original title before Speilberg got his hands on it. The book is far more powerful than the film. I read it in late 93 before it was 'popular' and thought it was fantastic. 'Trinity' by Leon Uris, good book about the Irish 'struggles' in the Charles Stewart Parnell era. Lord of the Rings - again a great book spoiled by a film maker. As another poster has named him, I found Sebastian Faulks books excellent. I read Birdsong after visitng the area the guy talks about, around Thiepval on the Somme and it made the book so much more real. Charlotte Gray was good, but not as good as Birdsong. On a totally different tract, the works of the War Poets, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Seigfreid Sassoon are also worth reading. Sitting at the dressing station near Ypres where John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields' was quite a moving experience.

Wendy

His first book, Lazybones is very good. highly recommended.

232Bar

Patricia Cornwell gets a bit too formulaic in the long run. For that type of Forensic novel, Kathy Reichs has a bit of an edge. If you want to follow a series I would go for the Alex Cross books by Patterson. Jeffrey Deaver books are good as well, but not the 'Location Scout' series. (or I didn't like them - doesn't mean others don't)

possoms

Hi thanks for that will check it out, we are emigrating to Tasmania

webgum

There's loads and loads about Tassie (Van Diemens Land). Tales of bush rangers and escaped convicts eating each other. Great stuff!

My husband once cycled up the east coast of Tasmania (for fun apparently!!) and the photos he took were amazing. It looks stunning. Good luck.

possoms

Thank you I'm googling the book now

Hutch

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I did my degree in English and my dad told me I should be ashamed of myself for never having read it.