Suggestions for Book Group book please!!!

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Not feeling particularly inspired.............

Our last book was the Tattooist of Auschwitz so I don't want anything harrowing.

We've rarely delved into crime..........any suggestions for an intelligent crime novel?

tia

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

Killing Floor by Lee Child

More of a psychological thriller but I loved The Date but Louise Jensen, also The Surrogate by the same person.

I do love a good crime book but all of the ones I love are series' so I don't think they would be good for a book club.

The Dry by Jane Harper, and its sequel (which can be read as a stand alone) are very good.

I was in a book club at the book which has created the most discussion was 'Veronika Decides to Due' by Paolo Coehlo.

We found if everyone loved (or hated) a book, there wasn't much to talk about. So it's more about being thought-provoking than popular!

Agree re the dry. We didnt all love it but it was a good discussion.

The Sealwomans Gift
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Oh sorry, just saw you wanted crime....

For a crime novel, Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh.
I’ve heard good things about The Dry but haven’t read it.
Some my book group have enjoyed:

• Eleanor Oliphant
• A Man Called Ove
• How to Stop Time (Matt Haig)

And a couple that created good discussion but were by no means liked by all:

• Hagseed by Margaret Atwood
• My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante (good luck if you go for that one though...)

I've just mentioned this on another thread but I'm raving about it here too (and no I'm not the author!) because it's so rare I read something ahead of the curve that nobody else has read yet! 'All that was lost' by Alison May out in paperback or Kindle.

It's not crime exactly - it's about a medium (fake or for real?) and two parents of lost sons and what you would do to speak to a loved one, one last time. I found it really thought provoking and there's lots of stuff re grief, lies and psychics that could start lots of discussion.

Sweet Caress by William Boyd was popular with my book group.

Oops sorry just realised you wanted a crime one! As you were...

The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair.

Anything by Sara Paretsky.

Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart has just come out. Deals with Iraq war. I think it would work well for a book club.

www.amazon.co.uk/Pieces-Me-Natalie-Hart-ebook/dp/B07D4CR61W/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=pieces+of+me&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1539273840&sr=8-1

Sorry I didn't realise you wanted crime but might be worth considering anyway?

A couple I have read recently, and enjoyed are

Snap by Belinda Bauer, and

The Party by Elizabeth Day

Post-mortem by Patricia Cornwell

A Maidens Grave by Jeffrey Deaver

I'm currently reading the Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair- enjoying it.

Our bookclub read - 7 Types of Ambiguity. It's a clunky title, but not what I was expecting. It's about a depressed ex-school teacher who kidnaps his ex-girlfriend's young son.

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The narrative is written in seven parts (hence the title) with each part having a different narrator - the mother/ex-girlfriend, the Boy's father, the psychologist interviewing the kidnapper, the kidnapper himself, the prostitute who turns out to be sleeping with both the kidnapper and the boy's father etc
It is complex and a bit more of the full story comes out with each narrator, and no one covers themself with glory.
There is lots to discuss - some of us loved it, some hated it, but it was certainly an interesting one.

Unfortunately not available on Kindle though (we all had to order an actual book!)

I've just read 'Murder at the Book Club'

It won't win any awards for writing but might spark some interesting discussion!

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz. Horowitz writes himself as the main character/investigator and his sidekick is an ex-police detective who worked as an advisor on a tv show he was writing. It's all fictional but really clever and quite funny in the way it weaves the murder story with autobiographical elements.

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is a brilliantly confusing and well-executed novel - I suspect it's a real Marmite book club read.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. Great twist!

Our House Louise Candlish
Snap Belinda Bauer
Persons Unknown - Susie Steiner
Lie with Me - Sabine Durrant

Any Philip Kerr or Sara Paretsky

What are the requirements for book club?
I second the Truth about the Harry Qubert Affair - loved it.

Have you thought about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time? It's got a crime in it, and should spark some discussion. He was apparently inspired by Sherlock Holmes. You could then maybe read some Sherlock Holmes?