Dragon Bones - Lisa See

Just finished reading this novel. Loved it. It is about a couple David and Hulan. David is a lawyer now settled in China and Hulan is his wife who is Chinese. They have a daughter who passed away when she was small. They have been unable to recover from her loss and now are involved in a case of the Three Gorges dam where artifacts are missing and mysterious deaths occur. It is upto both of them to solve this case without causing international scandal. Loved the book and would recommend it. It involves parts of Chinese history too :D

The Dead Lie Down/The Other Half Lives - Sophie Hannah

The novel is all about Det. Sgt. Charlotte Charlie Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse. Charlie and Simon are getting engaged and Charlie is worried about how their marriage will turn out to be. The story is about Ruth Bussey, who was violently attacked many years earlier, now is seeing a guy named Aidan Seed.
Aidan confesses to Ruth that he has killed a lady Mary Trelease. But Ruth knows that Mary is alive and tries to convince Aidan that she is alive.Ruth goes to Charlie and tells her about this and on the same day, Aidan goes to Simon to tell him that he has killed the lady Ruth many years back.

The story is so confusing in the beginning but you still don't want to keep the novel down. I had to finish it before sleeping and read it till quite late in the night :) I liked it but people might find the style of writing confusing since it keeps switching from different people's perspectives. Everything does tie together in the end though.

Actually both of these books are the same - The Dead Lie Down and The Other Half Lives. I realised this after reading the novel. I think it was released in the UK as 'The Dead Lie Down'.

Irish Love - Andrew M. Greeley

In this book, Nuala Anne has left her singing career and is happy to be at home in Ireland. There is a bomb blast in an adjacent site and  Nuala and her daughter Nelliecoyne smell blood due to them being fey. Later on, we come to know that it was the site of a brutal massacre where innocents were blamed for the crime of another. Dermot gets a book by a Chicago journalist Edward Fitzpatrick and they realise there is a connection between the old crime and the now present day. The book was interesting and I liked it better than the first book I read.

Irish Mist - Andrew M. Greeley

Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband, Dermot Michael Coyne come to Ireland so that she can sing in an Irish Aid concert. On the flight over to Ireland she has visions of a young woman in a burning castle and of a man assassinated on his way to Mass.Dermot finds out that the man was Kevin O'Higgins, successor to Irish rebel leader Michael Collins. Nuala is psychic and uses this gift to uncover the people who murdered Kevin. There is also a puzzle involved in this. It's a good book but not one I would like to read again. The author assumes that the readers are either Irish or from Europe and hence can understand most of the plot. It took me sometime to figure out the book :)

Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup

I really liked this novel. It is about the murder of Vicky Rai ( a politician's son) and the six suspects involved. He entwines the entire story of the six people who are suspected of murdering Vicky. Really nice novel :)

The case of the missing servant - Vish Puri mystery - Tarquin Hall

Amazing story teller. I was surprised to see a UK writer to write so in tune with Indian stories. I mean I felt like I was in India with the detective Vish Puri solving the case. Vish is a detective who is solving the case of a missing servant. The twists and turns in the tale make it a interesting read :P Really enjoyed this novel.

I think I love you - Stephanie Bond

This was a really weird storyline with three sisters Justine, Regina and Mica whose parents are bohemian( i.e. they live together and don't get married). There was a murder that the three girls were a witness to and didn't tell the police that time. Around 10 years later or so, the case is re-opened and the police are trying to resolve the case. In between of all this, there is another murder :) the girls fall in love too ;) hehhee read the story and find out what happens in the end

Record Time - Beverly Brandt

This is a nice novel about David Gamble and Kylie Rogers. David is a records music company CEO and Kylie ends up working in his office. They both fall in love and somehow Kylie manages to get into trouble every single time without any fault of hers. :) The storyline has a mystery plot into it - the records of her sister get pirated and are on the market even before its release. Kylie somehow gets blamed for it and now has to find out the culprit.

The Spy (The Liars Club) - Celeste Bradley

This was a nice novel involving mystery and romance. I liked the character of Phillipa (heroine) and Robbie, James' son. James is the hero who has adopted James as his heir and takes in Phillipa as his tutor thinking her to be a man since she has dressed like a man. Robbie recognises Phillipa to be a lady the first day and the things that Phillipa endures to find out the truth behind James' work is very interesting.

The Walking - Bentley Little

Ohhh a really good horror story heeheh sent some shivers up my spine for sure. :) I usually don't read horror novels but somehow in a hurry, picked this up from the library and had nothing else better to do while flying. But was I glad to finish this novel.

The story is narrated in two timelines. One chapter would be Then and the next one would be Now. And in the end, they both merge. Nice narration style. The story is basically about witchcraft and how they were not accepted in early days of America. And how it relates to today's lifetime. About a curse of a witch Isabella and how our hero Miles has to investigate the series of weird things happening today.

The Bone Vault - Linda Fairstein

This is simply a must read for the mystery buffs :) It is too good.

It involves a mystery where in a dead person's body ends up in an ancient sarcophagus just before it's shipped out of the country. This story involves the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Natural History, and the Cloisters.

A very good explanation of the musuem processes to acquire an item and how all items are identified and labelled is given in this book. We learn about burial customs about some tribe ( Don't recollect which one). The persons who investigate this crime are Alexandra Cooper, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace.

All in all, it's a good book to read :) I understood a lot about museums and different aspects of things stored in a museum through reading this book

Remembering Sarah - Chris Mooney

This is a good mystery book about the murders of three young girls. It is about priest, abortions and how our beliefs lead us to do many things.

The suspense is kept till the very end. I really enjoyed this book. It talks about the emotions of a father who feels responsible for the death of his child, about a son who feels unloved by his father, about a husband who is unable to connect with his wife.

Talks about the wife who is hiding a secret and many other smaller stories entwined in this.
A must-read in the section of mystery novels.