Seconding Tana French heartily! And Laura Lippman is pretty great, too
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
lisah - Dec 07, 2016 2:25:07 pm PST #24202 of 28261
Punishingly Intricate
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:35:04 pm PST #24203 of 28261
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm reading In the Woods right now. I kind of got bored there for a while, but it's picking up again. I just got to the part where the narrator spent the night in the woods trying to remember what happened when he was a kid.
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:40:58 pm PST #24204 of 28261
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
-t, I grabbed the anthology on the kindle and I'll look into Megan Abbott, Strix
Kate P. - Dec 07, 2016 2:42:29 pm PST #24205 of 28261
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I love Tana French, especially her second and third novels, The Likeness and Faithful Place.
Sue - Dec 07, 2016 3:28:30 pm PST #24206 of 28261
hip deep in pie
The Likeness was may favourite of them all.
They are allegedly working on a TV series based on the first five Dublin Murder Squad novels, and I am both impatient to see them and dubious they can do them justice. I 'm assuming they do a book a series.
Gris - Dec 07, 2016 4:03:42 pm PST #24207 of 28261
Hey. New board.
I know Megan Abbott! Well, I know her ex husband and met her once. Maybe that isn't so exciting.
Jesse - Dec 07, 2016 4:10:40 pm PST #24208 of 28261
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sj, have you read Laura Lippman? They aren't necessarily that dark, but there are a lot of them!
Strix - Dec 07, 2016 5:33:24 pm PST #24209 of 28261
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Close enough, Gris!
lisah - Dec 07, 2016 5:57:20 pm PST #24210 of 28261
Punishingly Intricate
They are allegedly working on a TV series based on the first five Dublin Murder Squad novels,
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat??
Sue - Dec 08, 2016 12:59:30 am PST #24211 of 28261
hip deep in pie
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat??
There hasn't been a lot of news. I keep my eye opened for anything and every once in a while I google to see if anything has been announced. There was an article almost two years ago saying they were optioned, and then nothing. Then Tana Franch said in an interview this fall it was in active development. And fairly recently I found it mentioned in a company bio at the bottom of a press release:
The company has a robust slate of projects in various stages of development and pre-production which include the upcoming television adaptation of Tana French's best selling novels about the "Dublin Murder Squad" written by Sarah Phelps and being co-produced in conjunction with Fremantle UK for both TNT and the BBC.
But no formal announcements since the first.