Reading as a cheap hobby

Coxy11

I'm currently reading Verity by Colleen Hoover - a bit graphic to read whilst eating my lunch!! 

Thanks as ever for the recommendations for crime thrillers. I can see my wishlist getting ever longer....

PipneyJane

MrsStepford said:

See No Evil by David Gatward is a bit of a disappointment so far. Just not engaging me and no Wensleydale cheese with cake. 

Any recommendations for Kindle or physical paperbacks welcome. Genre police procedural or crime, set in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Scotland, London, Kent or France. Mucho thanks xx 

Although they’re more romantic thrillers than crime novels, I can thoroughly recommend Mary Stewart’s novels. Each novel has a fresh protagonist, so they don’t need to be read in any particular order.  We studied My Brother Michael at school, which lead to me taking classics as a subject in later years.  (NB:  Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey is a fantastic read, a thriller written in poetry.). Once I finish my Dorothy L Sayers marathon, Mary Stewart is the next novelist on my list, to be followed by Kerry Greenwood, and Agatha Christie’s Marple novels.

- Pip

Brambling

I read Homers Iliad and Odyseey for A level and wrote a dissertation on them as part of the course, i found it recently and was impressed on what my 18 yr old self wrote  i still have both in the book shelf but haven't read in years.

I read Mary Stewart many years ago My Brother Michael was the first one I read and it had me hooked at the time.

I 've parked a Scandi crime book as I haven't liked the first few of chapters so far maybe because it's part of a series and book 5 isn't a good place to start with? i've enough books physical and on the kindle to read another one for now

I've added Kate Rhodes Ben Kitto books to my list - and will keep a eye out in CSs or the library for them

Mrs Stepford - some recommended crime books if you haven't read them!

Stephen Booth - as previously mentioned  Fry/Cooper books set in the peak district
Peter Robinson - Inspector Banks books - older but good and frequently seen in CSs
Mo Hayder - Jack Caffery books - I didn't like the TV program but have read the books
James Oswald - Inspector McClean books set in Edinburgh
Denzil Meyrick - DCI Daley books set in Scotland
Stuart MacBride - Logan McRae books also Scotland - Aberdeen i think 
camilla lackberg - not UK but a Scandi crime series

On my list but not read yet but recommended by others 
Rachel McLean - set in Dorset - recommended by one of my Dorset sisters - i believe she also writes a series set in Cumbria
JD Kirk - DCI Jack Logan series - set in Scotland

-taff

JK Rowlings Strike books are good.

Floss

-taff said:

JK Rowlings Strike books are good.

But rather hefty in size!

Floss

I like the LJ Ross books:
- DCI Ryan series is set in the NE of England 
- Dr Alexander Gregory series is about a forensic psychologist 
- The Summer Suspense Series are based in Cornwall

-taff

Floss said:

-taff said:

JK Rowlings Strike books are good.

But rather hefty in size!

Yes, they do keep getting longer and longer ...I still enjoy it though, I can get through a book so quick that at least I spend a few hours with these..

MrsStepford

Thanks for the recommendations @IrishRose12 and @bouicca21 I have one relative in Ireland but haven't visited him there as he comes over frequently. I don't know Ireland at all. 

I'm from Norfolk, have lived in London, Suffolk, Toronto and been all over E&W Sussex, Wiltshire, Hampshire, North Yorkshire, North Wales, Cornwall and Devon. If a book is set in say Newcastle, I haven't been there, don't know the accent or any of the history. 

Floss

MrsStepford said:

I'm from Norfolk, have lived in London, Suffolk, Toronto and been all over E&W Sussex, Wiltshire, Hampshire, North Yorkshire, North Wales, Cornwall and Devon. If a book is set in say Newcastle, I haven't been there, don't know the accent or any of the history. 

Thats where everyone is different - I was born in Newcastle & holidayed there as a child, have lived in the Yorkshire Pennines, by the Lancashire coast & in Cheshire, but those locations don't dictate the locations of books I read. I'm happy to find a new area in books and then visit to see the real locations.

Lake District or Cotswolds fans may like Rebecca Tope's two series.

IrishRose12

MrsStepford said:

Thanks for the recommendations @IrishRose12 and @bouicca21 I have one relative in Ireland but haven't visited him there as he comes over frequently. I don't know Ireland at all. 

I'm from Norfolk, have lived in London, Suffolk, Toronto and been all over E&W Sussex, Wiltshire, Hampshire, North Yorkshire, North Wales, Cornwall and Devon. If a book is set in say Newcastle, I haven't been there, don't know the accent or any of the history. 

Funny I've never thought of things like that. I've read that many books based in countries across the world I din't even think about where they're based TBH.  I just use my imagination, but never really considered if it was "right" so to speak. And have never thought about needing too know the history of anywhere.

I've honestly never thought about things like you have.  And would never have thought anyone thought that way in regards to reading either, so that's a new thing I've learnt today lol.

But now I think of it, I've read some books etc for years with repeating characters for example, and when it's made into a TV show for example, I can never get into the tv show as it doesn't "match" what I had imagined each character to be in the books lol.

It just shows how we all read in different ways I suppose.  I hate books written in the 1st person for example, find it really hard to get into, which is why I was surprised I enjoyed the Shari Lapena books