recommend me an easy but addictive read

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I need distraction. Going through a messy separation and I have found myself drawn to Closer magazine and Eastenders for light relief, ignoring my poor Kindle. It has to stop!

Can anyone recommend something fast-paced and entertaining, not too heavy, definitely not romance. Usually I love authors like Maggie O'Farrell, Audrey Niffenegger, Ian McEwan, Dave Eggers... I recently read Gone Girl and enjoyed that, also loved the new Bridget Jones.

The Detective's Daughter and A Kind of Vanishing by Lesley Thompson
Any Jo Nesbo
The Light Between Oceans - M L Steadman

Oops, I took too long to write my suggestions & cross-posted with virtually everyone!

Im reading The Likeness by Tana French and Im finding it to be a really good escape from the assignment I should be writing

what about the Agatha Raisin mysteries, really easy read always with a little twist.

The Susan hill detective stories.

Kate Atkinson - the Jackson Brodie ones. Just the right side of trashy.

Agree with Bill Bryson and The Detective's Daughter recommendations too.

I also raced through The Cuckoo's Calling by JK Rowling although a lot of people didn't like it.

Also second the Jackson Brodie books.

Was going to recommend Susan Hill and Kate Atkinson but i've been beaten!

The Cuckoo's Callingis the one that Jk rowling wrote under an alias (Robert Galbraith) i really enjoyed that. I notice its only £2 in kindlestore too!

Louise bagshawe dead readable

The Pursuit of Happiness - Douglas Kennedy
Ignore the girly cover, i was gripped, then read everything else he's written.

The Paris Wife - Paula McGlynn, semi biographical novel about Ernest Hemmingway's early career, had my up all night.

Oh yy Marian Keyes - hugely underrated and always entertaining, particularly Rachel's Holiday, have read that a few times

Oh YY to Rachel's Holiday! It's one of my desert island books.

I've read it 10+ times and every single time it has me crying my eyes out and laughing like an eejit. It's so good.

Some great ideas thanks! I had forgotten aboit Jackson Brodie, I have read one or two of those before and quite liked them, and I also liked the tv series.

Cool, I can spend my evening researching books instead of composing hatemail to my ex that I never actually send...

Lee Child's Jack Reacher series.

Biographys by funny women ;Caitlin Moran, Julie Walters, dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
I also enjoyed cuckoos calling.
For something different how about Jane Austin just for the sheer joy of her human observation?

The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaimann

Just thought of another which gripped me, 'one moment one morning'.

I like quite a few of Robert Goddard books. Some are better than others. thriller type twist and turns. Caught in the Light is my favourite one though a bit far fetched.

I've jst finished The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne. Not an absolutely brilliant book but very good, and gives you stuff to think about. Not a romance!

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty. Excellent.

Val McDermid. Her books are great too.

I'm just starting Gone Girl and have been told that if I like that I will love Unravelling Oliver.

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. Read it really quickly!

Broken heart syndrome by Susie Tate - hilarious book and v lighthearted you will be up all night reading

The Woman in the Fifth - Douglas Kennedy - a story with great twists