The value of subgenre fan websites varies greatly.
I googled all sorts of keyword combos to find the first few fan sites. Then... it didn't work any more.
Much grumbling ensued until a friendly voice recommended Goodreads Groups (thanks Jo!)
These crime/thriller sites carry recommendations that are fast-paced set mostly in exotic locales.
On Crimethrillergirl, I found a review of
The Twelfth Department by William Ryan. It's a fast-paced historical thriller set in the 1930's Kremlin.
Third in a series of previously well-received novels.
There's an event alert...
Crime Readers Association is giving away free tickets to the CSI Portsmouth festival in the UK!
CrimeFictionLover has a really readable list of recommendations...
Louise Doughty's Apple Tree Yard - a middle aged woman protagonist - rare but intriguing...
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny finds CI Armand Gamache on another case, this time set in a quiet but deadly monastery.
The Romance Reader features hearts! hearts! hearts! on its main page and all over its reviews.
BTW : we own very few of the titles I was interested in.
Her Man in Manhattan by Trish Wylie is a Harlequin Kiss novel.
It includes the important appeal factor of a happy ending for star-crossed lovers.
Rich girl, bodyguard - 'nuff said.
Lisa Cach seems to be a diverse author.
She writes time-travelling, comedic, or dark, romances.
I may read The Changeling Bride based on the favorable review of her debut novel.
Most of her offerings garnered four hearts.
Daring the Devil got 5 Kisses. Author Leslie Lafoy has written quite a few well- reviewed books. The heroine is a smart Irish girl in nineteenth century Massachusetts. The hero is a stranger, tracking his father's killer to her town. Kisses and fights follow. Suspense promised.
Apocalypse Whenever is a Horror readers' group.There are over 6,000 members.
The book they are reading now is Ready, Player, One, by Ernest Cline which I actually have bedside. I'm vindicated , somewhat, I think...
Cinder by Marissa Meyer is a cinderella tale set in a scary futuristic Beijing.
She's a cyborg but she has a rotten step-mother and sisters. What else is new?
Disaster desire? There's much to choose from - biological, disappearance-of-population, cannibalism, demons.... good stuff
A.S. Thompson writes the plague stuff - like The Change and The Longest Road - fun!
So that leads me to my mashups:
Time travel/ plague
Connie Willis' Doomsday Book
Time travel/ historical
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Read them.
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