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Can anyone please suggest a book to read?

OurLungs

OurLungs

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Hi, my brothers in jail, and because he has much time on his hands, he reads about a book a day. I am going to be purchasing him some new books, and i have no clue where to start.
He loves Mystery novels, i was never into Mystery novels, so i wouldnt know any good ones to pick out.
Id like to find a series i could get him, does anyone have any suggestions?
 
How old is he? What are his other interests? :)

How long has he been a reader?

(I'm trying to judge his reading maturity in order to come up with some suggestions.)

I did find this TBF link
 
Hes in his late twenties, hes been reading a book a day for almost a year now, so i think his level is pretty high.
 
Also, his intrests arent that important, he will read almost anything you throw at him, he started reading the babysiters club because he was so bored once.
 
Maybe John D. McDonald and Ross McDonald. Two different authors and private investigators. Both have long series. And Ross McDonald has mindbendingly complicated situations. I've read them all and enjoyed every one of their books.
Good luck
Good luck to your brother
Peder
 
A cheesy and totally fun series to read is Janet Evanovich's "the Stephanie Plum Series"
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven on Top
Twelve Sharp (Not out yet, but figure I add this one in also)

I'm on Ten Big Ones myself, and have been hooked since.....
Let me know how he likes them

BTW, Welcome to TBF:D
 
Derailed by James Seigel. Definitly one of my favourite books. Its a crime/Ithriller/mystery and it is has a second story in it set in a jail. Its a brilliant book...just made into a movie with Jenifer Aniston.
I think he might enjoy it.

Lani
 
I will heartily recommend, as I have done elsewhere, the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout. I think that there are forty-odd books in the series, and all of them good.
 
John Maddox Roberts' SPQR novels are pretty good. They're mysteries set in ancient Rome, in the time before Julius Caesar came into full power. The first two are The King's Gambit and The Catiline Conspiracy, and the books are really quick reads; 270-something pages (maybe a little more).
 
Stewart said:
Try throwing some classics into the mix on top of the five minute throwaways listed here.
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Stewie, was that the faintest glimmer of a smile I saw on your face just now? ;) A tiny twinkle in that baleful eye?
 
I second the Lee Child recommendation.

Perhaps you could get him a few different "first books" in various series. That way if he likes one you'll have a ready-made list of other books to get him by the same author. I would recommend these:

"Deal Breaker" by Harlan Coben
"The Monkey's Raincoat" by Robert Crais
"A Cold Day In Paradise" by Steve Hamilton
"Iron Lake" by William Kent Krueger
"Mallory's Oracle" by Carol 'Connell
 
Get him the alphabet according to Sue Grafton: A - S or whatever her latest letter is. I would switch the genre up a lot though, because even someone in jail can't take 50 back-to-back Mysteries.
 
I agree with Disco Dan. If you want to get him onto other genres that still have a mystery element in them, I suggest:

John Grisham novels for Thrillers
Isaac Asimov novels for Science Fiction
Janet Evanovich novels for Humor
Laurell K. Hamilton novels for Horror.

Some of my favorites were The Last Juror by John Grisham, One for the Money & succeeding books by Janet Evanovich, and Guilty Pleasures (book introducing Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurell K. Hamilton.

And, if your brother is in the mood for some longer, literary-type fiction, I really recommend The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Really fantastic story about South Africa, overcoming obstacles, and life's extremes of misery and joy. There's not much mystery novel in that book though.
 
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