Not sure how amazing they are as I don't read a lot of mystery or thriller but I had a lot of fun reading The Guest List by Lucey Foley and The Only One Left by Riley Sager!
I had a couple of February faves - The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington (fantasy). The Will of the Many by the same author was one of my fantasy faves from last year and this was way better than I expected from what I'd heard. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (general fiction with a touch of sci-fi) was intriguing and gave me plenty to think about, though few answers in the story.
@@RDsLibrary Sounds like you had a great reading month! :) I've heard of I Who Have Never Known Men and wondered whether I should give it a go - I just might now :)
A belated Happy Birthday! I get what you mean about The Girl on the Train. There was a spate of alcoholic unreliable narrator thrillers at about the same time, most of which were OK but I didn't love. From what you said, The Cruel Prince series doesn't sound like my kind of fantasy. Interesting to hear your thoughts about Crawdads. It's been on my radar for a while, but it always felt like it'd be a 3 star book despite its very high GR rating. I think I'll pass. I'm definitely going to check out Stoner. I hope March provides you with more 4 or 5 star books.
So here are a few (too many) mystery-thriller suggestions - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter Close to Home by Cara Hunter The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell The Echo Man by Sam Holland His & Hers by Alice Feeney Home Before Dark by Riley Sager The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson Femicide by Pascal Engman For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn If you want any more details, let me know. I would add a few more but they have multiple POV, so probably won't be your thing.
Aw, thank you! :) Yeah, I feel like when you've read a book with an alcoholic unreliable narrator once, you see the plot coming from miles away in the next 🙈 And as I said in the video The Girl on The Train and Where the Crawdads Sings have very much the same vibe to them - the Crawdads is just.... sloooow haha. Let me know what you think about Stoner! I'm dying to talk to another person who's read the book haha 😂
@@RDsLibrary thank you for the (not too many) mystery-thriller suggestions! :D Do you know whether the movie Thirteen starring Jim Carrey is based on Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh? 'Cause I really enjoyed that movie 🙈
I couldn't find that Jim Carrey movie although he was in something called The Number 23. Anyway, the book hasn't been made into a movie. The tagline from the blurb is 'The serial killer isn't on trial - he's on the jury.' It's book 4 in a series but I haven't read the others and it didn't seem to matter.@@literatureliz91
I read 16 in February, the standouts were -A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske 4.75☆ -No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 4.25☆ The big fail was -The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S Tepper 1☆ (also read Harland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and that was much better.) My fav mystery thriller authors are Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Sara Blaedel. Last year I really enjoyed "Insomnia" by Sara Pinborough and "The Need" by Helen Phillips (The Need is very very motherhood focused) Happy Birthday!
16! That's quite impressive 💪🏻 Oooh, so many mystery thriller recs. I'll look into them - I've already a plan to read Sara Blædel for an upcoming series of Danish authors :) Thank you!
@@literatureliz91 certainly :) A great contemporary sci-fi mystery is Leviathan Wakes, which is the first book of the Expanse series. It's a detective noir murder mystery kinda story that takes place in the future (about 200-300 yrs). The series continues to have a mystery element in the next books but the genre of each book varies. From the classics, I'd say Asimov's Robot series is a nice spin on the detective stories. The short stories are more of a puzzle solving, but the novels are firmly in the mystery genre. And on the lighter side of mystery, I'd suggest the Murderbot series, it's amazing, funny, sarcastic with plenty of twists and turns. Another classic fun mystery is Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency (amazing, unparalleled British humour!)
@@AbhijeetBorkar Thank you so much for all the recs! Seems like there's quite a few I'll give a go and anything with "amazing, unparalleled British humour" is an absolute must-read ✨🙌🏻
@@literatureliz91Oh, and I forgot to mention books by Michael Crichton, particularly The Andromeda Strain is a good mystery novel. But also Jurassic Park can count as a scifi mystery too :D
@Sullsworld brought me here. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍
Thanks for coming by! Sully's just great!
Hope you are currently reading something good. Best wishes.
I'm currently reading The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake and so far I'm really liking it - despite it being a multiple point of view ;)
Not sure how amazing they are as I don't read a lot of mystery or thriller but I had a lot of fun reading The Guest List by Lucey Foley and The Only One Left by Riley Sager!
Ooh, thanks for the recs. I'll definitely have a look at them. If you liked them I've quite sure they're pretty good ;)
@@literatureliz91 hahaha thanks Liz 😊
@@Sullsworld 🤗
What was your favourite read this month? :)
I had a couple of February faves -
The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington (fantasy). The Will of the Many by the same author was one of my fantasy faves from last year and this was way better than I expected from what I'd heard.
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (general fiction with a touch of sci-fi) was intriguing and gave me plenty to think about, though few answers in the story.
@@RDsLibrary Sounds like you had a great reading month! :)
I've heard of I Who Have Never Known Men and wondered whether I should give it a go - I just might now :)
A belated Happy Birthday! I get what you mean about The Girl on the Train. There was a spate of alcoholic unreliable narrator thrillers at about the same time, most of which were OK but I didn't love. From what you said, The Cruel Prince series doesn't sound like my kind of fantasy. Interesting to hear your thoughts about Crawdads. It's been on my radar for a while, but it always felt like it'd be a 3 star book despite its very high GR rating. I think I'll pass. I'm definitely going to check out Stoner. I hope March provides you with more 4 or 5 star books.
So here are a few (too many) mystery-thriller suggestions -
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh
The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
The Echo Man by Sam Holland
His & Hers by Alice Feeney
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Femicide by Pascal Engman
For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
If you want any more details, let me know. I would add a few more but they have multiple POV, so probably won't be your thing.
Aw, thank you! :)
Yeah, I feel like when you've read a book with an alcoholic unreliable narrator once, you see the plot coming from miles away in the next 🙈 And as I said in the video The Girl on The Train and Where the Crawdads Sings have very much the same vibe to them - the Crawdads is just.... sloooow haha.
Let me know what you think about Stoner! I'm dying to talk to another person who's read the book haha 😂
@@RDsLibrary thank you for the (not too many) mystery-thriller suggestions! :D
Do you know whether the movie Thirteen starring Jim Carrey is based on Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh? 'Cause I really enjoyed that movie 🙈
I couldn't find that Jim Carrey movie although he was in something called The Number 23. Anyway, the book hasn't been made into a movie. The tagline from the blurb is 'The serial killer isn't on trial - he's on the jury.' It's book 4 in a series but I haven't read the others and it didn't seem to matter.@@literatureliz91
I read 16 in February, the standouts were
-A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske 4.75☆
-No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 4.25☆
The big fail was
-The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S Tepper 1☆ (also read Harland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and that was much better.)
My fav mystery thriller authors are Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Sara Blaedel. Last year I really enjoyed "Insomnia" by Sara Pinborough and "The Need" by Helen Phillips (The Need is very very motherhood focused)
Happy Birthday!
16! That's quite impressive 💪🏻
Oooh, so many mystery thriller recs. I'll look into them - I've already a plan to read Sara Blædel for an upcoming series of Danish authors :)
Thank you!
Have you tried any sci-fi mysteries?
No, I haven't actually. Do you have any you can recommend? :)
@@literatureliz91 certainly :)
A great contemporary sci-fi mystery is Leviathan Wakes, which is the first book of the Expanse series. It's a detective noir murder mystery kinda story that takes place in the future (about 200-300 yrs). The series continues to have a mystery element in the next books but the genre of each book varies.
From the classics, I'd say Asimov's Robot series is a nice spin on the detective stories. The short stories are more of a puzzle solving, but the novels are firmly in the mystery genre.
And on the lighter side of mystery, I'd suggest the Murderbot series, it's amazing, funny, sarcastic with plenty of twists and turns. Another classic fun mystery is Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency (amazing, unparalleled British humour!)
@@AbhijeetBorkar Thank you so much for all the recs! Seems like there's quite a few I'll give a go and anything with "amazing, unparalleled British humour" is an absolute must-read ✨🙌🏻
@@literatureliz91Oh, and I forgot to mention books by Michael Crichton, particularly The Andromeda Strain is a good mystery novel. But also Jurassic Park can count as a scifi mystery too :D
@AbhijeetBorkar thank you so much for the recs! Feel like I've got my entire year of sci-fi mystery books sorted 💪🏻