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2 May
6:50am, 2 May 2024
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GregP
Oh. You’ve heard of Patricia Cornwell (who I really don’t rate) and Tess Gerritsen (for whom I have a soft spot)? Kathy Reichs? It’s a genre I rather enjoy both on telly and in novels. Telly I especially enjoyed Bones (based on the Kathy Reichs novels) and Body of Proof. Not so much Rizzoli and Isles (based on the Tess Gerritsen novels) |
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2 May
6:52am, 2 May 2024
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GregP
NCIS also has a strong undercurrent of ‘ME as hero’ - Mallard and Palmer in the original, Wade in New Orleans, Penrose in Sydney.
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2 May
7:19am, 2 May 2024
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Diogenes
Heard of them all, and I thought I'd never read any. I was going to say that I tried a bit of one of the Kay Scarpetta books and when I checked the spelling I discovered that this was one of Cornwell's characters. I didn't get on with it. I guess this is another one of those areas where we have no overlap. |
2 May
7:46am, 2 May 2024
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McGoohan
I did not read the radioactive seals one BTW - I think I just read the Amazon excerpt
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2 May
7:47am, 2 May 2024
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Diogenes
(I was thinking Kay Scarpetta was another novelist in the genre)
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2 May
8:31am, 2 May 2024
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Night-owl
I thought I had Karin Slaughter on my shelf appears not. Read Tess recently which I liked but disappointed the male Detective that featured isn't in much of the later books I do have one Kathy Reichs book I do love this genre too especially the forensic side of things |
2 May
10:10am, 2 May 2024
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Little Nemo
I've read Patricia Cornwell and enjoyed the first one. But the books got gradually more unpleasant so I stopped. Haven't tried Karin Slaughter or Tess Gerritson. My guilty pleasure was the Stephanie Plum series though I think I only got as far as the 7th or 8th.
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2 May
10:24am, 2 May 2024
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Diogenes
One of the reasons I had heard of Karin Slaughter is because she was the first guess on a podcast I listen to, Writer's Routine. That show is coming up to 250 episodes and I think the host said that Karin is coming back on for a special episode.
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2 May
11:57am, 2 May 2024
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Red Squirrel
Stephanie Plum, Little Nemo. Janet Evanovitch yeah? I discovered her via book exchanges while travelling. Probably got as far as 8 or 10 too. I like her - breath of fresh air in the crime genre. Love the granny character. “Who trod on a duck?” 😀
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2 May
1:22pm, 2 May 2024
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Little Nemo
Yes, that's the one Red Squirrel The plot was nearly always the same but they had a lot of charm 
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