Recommend a book to get me back into readinging

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I used to be an avid reader, but life (mainly children!) have meant not much reading goes on these days. I don't think I've finished the book I was reading whilst I was in labour - he's 5 now 😳

Likes:
Horror
Psychological thriller
Crime/mystery

Dislikes:
Fantasy
Sci fi
Anything wildly implausible - time travel, alternate realities etc.

Other than that, I'm open to suggestions. Not averse to classics or new books or anything in between. I would like an actual book but also have a kindle that can be resurrected.

What would you recommend?

I'd definitely think 'gripping'.

Kate Atkinson's Brodie series? Case Histories is the first IIRC. Loved them.

You might like Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black. Imo it's her best book. It's so dark it makes most psychological thrillers look like the Lego movie. It's a psychological non-thriller but still very chilling.

Crime -
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels and The Appeal by Janice Hallett.
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter.
They're all told in a non-conventional style which I really enjoyed.

Gripping is definitely required. I am the worst for starting and not finishing - so many books on my kindle are abandoned between 1-10% because they just don't grab me enough (thank you ADHD!)

I could have written your post a few months ago.

I highly recommend Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series. If you like court room drama, then the Mickey Haller series (same author l) is great too.

Jeffrey Deaver’s books are good.

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I’m really enjoying CJ Tudor’s books at the moment.

The Chalk Man was definitely gripping, and I’ve almost finished The Taking Of Annie Thorne.

i think they tick the boxes for horror, psychological thriller, and crime/mystery.

A few horror authors I've been loving recently are David Sodergren he's an independently published author from Scotland and his character work is as brilliant as the gore I would highly reccomend Maggies Grave and The Harr and I really enjoy Clay Mcleod Chapman I really enjoyed The Remaking by him.

The Whisper Man by Alex North is really good - crime/thriller with a good plot

1000% anything by Cara Hunter the Fawley series is amazing and her just released standalone Murder in the family is absolutely brilliant!

For your horror/thrillers I would recommend anything by Grady Hendrix or Riley Sager, all their books got me out of reading slumps!!

If you are into real horror psychological thriller grilles then check out the series by Chris Carter.

I cant get on with CJ Tudor both those books were very heavily inspired and had lots of similarities to Stephen King!!

I recommend this to so many people - The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean. It's the story of a trafficked woman who is, essentially, sold to a Norfolk farmer as a slave. It's written in her voice, so quite simplistic in its language but it's amazing.

Do you only like fiction? I tend to only like non-fiction.

When I do read fiction, I never want to read anything traumatic, so modern slavery out for me!

If you have ADHD how about a book with short stories to get you interested?

Ian Rankin
Karin Slaughter
Jeffrey Archer

There are more obviously just these came to mind.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far!

To answer some questions, I will read non fiction, but depends what it is.

Re: short stories and ADHD, it's not so much the length, its just got to grab me, if it does, I'll stick with it whether it's 50 pages or 500. If it doesn't, then I'm out.

Will do some blurb reading of the recommendations so far, and report back!

I'm not sticking to your three "likes" since that's not what I read, but I'll just mention that overall, "Lessons In Chemistry" seems to be unusually popular.
Maybe if you'd like to get back into reading, you might try something happier?

The latest Lisa Jewell - Nome of this is true - is a cracking psychological thriller read. I really got into her after a long break from reading.
American Dirt is another corker of a read but not really any of your genres.

How about audiobooks?

On a Quiet Street is gripping, and I'm super picky. It's narrated by Imogen Church, who is amazing. You could read the book though.

Agree re the Bosch books but the older ones seem dated. Start with the newer ones that also feature Renee Ballard character.

I'm amid the Magpie Murders.

For crime - I’m really enjoying Japanese crime fiction- seicho yokomizo, seicho matsumoto, akimitsu takagi, yukito ayatsuji

i always recommend It happened in Boston? By Russell h greenan but he has some really good horror (only kindle)

what got me back into reading a couple of years ago were the retelling of the Greek myths from the female perspective - Circe, Ariadne, the silence of the girls