I'm reading "The Good Daughter" by Karin Slaughter, it's a little over 500 pages & quite graphic in language & violence, it starts when two sisters were viciously attacked to 28 years later. I'm halfway into it & so far it's an excellent read.

Having much enjoyed The Tainted Cup, I am about to read the second in the series A Drop Of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett, having meanwhile detoured via an anthology The Book Of Swords, as well as dipping back into the gripping and horrifying non-fiction Spillover which reads like a thriller.

Like it or not oldbroad, Amazon kindle still rules the roost when it comes to ebooks: I say this having searched for alternatives and reached this conclusion somewhat reluctantly! On the credit side, US library membership means that Amazon is not making much money from me on that score, and I am still managing to keep a couple of older kindles in working order...😁

Lex, I do have Kindle on my desktop computer if I really want to use it. I like Dean Koontz but there are a lot of other books to read. We'll see. Maybe I will try it one day. I'm not really much of an Amazon fan any more. They've just gotten too big for me and I find it hard to shop there.

Judith,
Karin Slaughter's books tend to be gritty but very suspenseful. I've followed her Will Trent series but haven't read any of her others. I'll add that one to my buy-soon list.

Lex,
The Tainted Cup is next on my list to read. Let us know what you think of it.

I read and loved We Are Legion (We Are Bob), the first book in the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor. His writing reminds me of John Scalzi's with serious themes interspersed with humor. The likeable main character was once human, and as the title implies, there are many versions of him. I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.

Right now I just started reading The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. A teenage girl disappears from her summer camp in the Adirondacks. Her parents own the camp, and history seems to be repeating itself because the teen's older brother disappeared 12 years before in similar circumstances. The search for her has just started, but already the plot is thickening because it seems that everybody has secrets they don't want revealed.

LadyK I really love the world created in The Tainted Cup, and the writing style (with some great humour): immersive stuff!

I started the God of the Woods, but it failed to grab me: perhaps I should have persevered...

I must try the Bobiverse (new to me).

And oldbroad: join the library and use Libby to access kindle titles without having to do much with Amazon!😁