need a book to read but dont know what.......

[alibug]

Hi nearly finished book that i have been reading. Now i need another. I like mystery, not necessarily detective novels. also like romance/sagas Like modern fiction ... tried richard & judy book club for ideas but nothing grabbed me .... oh help any suggestions

I've just finished one that you might like, hang on and I shall go and find it...

It's called 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson.
It's sort of a detective story. I found it a wee bit hard to get into at first (it's not the usual kind of book I read) but the more I got into it, the better it was, and I was quite sad to have got to the end last night. It left me with loads to think about.

I've just finished the 2nd of Tory Hayden's novels - The Sunflower forest which is good - read in one sitting.

Tory Hayden's work is good. I've read a few of hers.

You might consider 'The Unburied', by Charles Palliser (1999). It's a mystery novel although not, exactly, a detective story. It's set in the 19th Century. The protagonist is a university fellow who travels to a small (fictitious) Cathedral town over Christmas to explore a new avenue of research. He stays with an old friend of his with whom he lost touch in ambiguous circumstances.

The plot follows several mysteries; the protagonists research into what exactly happened when the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred beseiged the town, a single question which could turn scholarship of the era on its head and make or break the protagonists career; the truth behind two murders in the town during the civil war and a murder that happens that Christmas under his very nose. It's beautifully written and the chillingly icey Midwinter atmosphere is a beautiful foil to the cosy warmth of an exquisite drawing room mystery in the old Victorian style.

For a very light read which will lift your heart, you could try Alexander McCall Smith - either the Sunday Philosophy Club or Ladies Detective agency. Not what I usually read, but my doctor recommended them, and they are charming.

I've thought about the Ladies Detective Agency. I shall give it a go now that it's been recommended, Jux.

thanks a lot of good ideas, i shall look at them.... any more?

i liked that ' The Girl with the dragon tattoo' by Stieg Larsson...and i'm not ususually into crime or thrillers or anything like that...but this one gripped me.

sixth lamentation is good. Just finished Reluctant Fundamentalist. good but not fab. I didn't really get on with the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman, is good, just finished it.

Also, When will there be good news - Kate Atkinson

What's the one about Miss Smilla and snow actually called? That's really good, I'd recommend it, if only I could remember the exact title (never mind the author!)