Any Lee Child fans?

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Hie new book is out tomorrow - can't wait!!

The latest Jonathan Kellerman was also good - as usual. I like Dennis Lehane, Robert Crais et. al too. Have you read Nelson DeMille? I highly recommend his books.

Janet Evanovitch - Now isn't Ranger a man to die for?! Pervy

Oh I forgot about Robert Crais - haven't seen any new ones from him for a while.

And Ranger - phwoaar!

Nelson DeMille is another of my favourites

Is Janet Evanovitch a bit like Sue Grafton? I always thought she was chicklit. I went to the library this afternoon to get a couple of her books, but had no card . Does she need to be read in order? Oh, G.M. Ford is good, too.

I do love Jack Reacher but it always makes me laugh when he manages to beat up 8 guys just using his little finger and only ending up slightly scratched himself. He also seems to save the world alot - they ought to be paying him really. The only non-appealing thing about him is the length of time he seems to wear his underpants - I don't care how many showers you take they must get rank quite quickly, particularly with all that macho-sweaty-maleness

He didn't mention buying underwear in the last book, only trousers and shirt.

I got into Lee Child when I was pregnant, found I could keep track even with my mushy brain . Didn't realise a new one was coming out.

Sidge, re Robert Crais have you read The Watchman? That's his latest one, just out in paperback, more about Joe Pike

Janet Evanovitch's stuff is written firmly tongue in cheek - often very funny. But she creates a real erotic tension with the relationship she creates between her heroine and her boyfriend Morelli and Ranger. Definitely worth reading from the beginning as you understand how this is created.

Agree Jacanne about the rank/sweaty underwear. And it had never crossed my mind that he might not wear any!

And he uses a whole bar soap in the shower.

I think Reacher goes commando....

Rosmerta - I didn't realise Crais had a new one out! I'll look out for that.

Asda has the new one for £9.87! Woot!

I read killing floor as part of a book club on mn (must go and comment on thread actually). The whole killing 8 men with little finger thing put me off slightly, also the fact that the main female in the book rarely appeared without getting her knickers off. But the story was okish, just wondering if that was one of his weaker books, or am I not likely to appreciate the rest?

havalina - I 'released' that book into our Quiche book club!

I don't think it's one of his best, but the reason for choosing that one was that it's his first.

Female characters in other books aren't quite so weak/available!

I enjoy crime fiction and read a Lee Child book for an online reading group which really changed my life - my first really big online thing.

I met him at a crime fiction convention and he's an amazingly nice man - that made me want to read one of his books although the blurb wouldn't have appealed to me on its own. Conventions run Thursday to Sunday and a group of us who mostly knew each other online arranged to go out for dinner on the Sunday night - Lee Child came along (perhaps with another author) and picked up the bill for dinner for 15 people - about $700 US dollars (at the then exchange rate still over £400). What a kind man. I bought his first Jack Reacher on the journey home though haven't read that one yet.

There seems to be a lot of crime writers conventions in the U.S. Wish they would start them here.

Whereabouts are you cocolepew? Someone who organised a US crime fiction convention, for writers and readers, only in Bristol, in 2006, is going to organise one in June every 2 years, called CrimeFest, starting this June. Sadly Lee Child was going to be a special guest but has apparently dropped out.

www.crimefest.com/

Or there's a Crime Festival in Harrogate every year in July if that's more convenient for you. I've been every year, even with DS at under 3 months last summer!

www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime/crime-events.html

Perhaps the MN Massive should put in an appearance?!

Northern Ireland, maybe I could book the family holiday for Bristol . Just got an Janet Evanovitch book from the library, I can't believe I've never read her before! Very funny.

I am very - I would like to be discovering her again!

Good thing about it is, my usually crap empty library has all her books!

BIWI, that would be great. If anyone is tempted, let me know, as I plan to go to Harrogate but am still wondering about Bristol at the moment.

Well as my dad lives in East Keswick, not a million miles away, I could arrange to be there - could be quite good fun!

How about the rest of you?

Elkie - I think Harlan has been to the Harrogate one in the past?

YES, YES, YES !!!!!!!!!!!!
pre-ordered on Amazon as soon as I heard it ws coming - it recently arrived and I have locked it away for the summer camping hols. (Reason being - started reading them a few years ago, and one of the highlights of the summer hols is my ritual of sitting on the deck of a caravan in on a French campsite in the mellow eveing with my G&Ts and the latest jack reacher novel.) Jack is my hero - PURE escapism. Lee Child was on the Simon Mayo show on R4 Thursday - very nice guy.