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Books Mentioned:
The Last Widow – Karin Slaughter
Fleshmarket Close – Ian Rankin
Hardcastle’s Quartet – Graham Ison
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
The Bangalore Detectives Clube – Harini Nagendra
In Place of Fear – Catriona McPherson
Deadly Editions – Paige Shelton
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I loved Dombey and Son! In this video, I talk about his use of imagery and repetition. Please be aware that there are spoilers throughout.
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Books Mentioned:
Death in the Tuscan Hills - Marco Vichi
The Devil's Making - Sean Haldane
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0:00 In these videos I talk about the books I've read recently.
Books Mentioned:
0:27 Death and Croissants – Ian Moore
2:35 Who Cries for the Lost? – C.S. Harris
How the Dead Speak – Val McDermid
Unseen – Karin Slaughter
The Body Under the Piano – Marthe Jocelyn
Snow-Blind – Ragnar Jonasson
Come Death and High Water – Ann Cleeves
The Kept Woman – Karin Slaughter
No Holly for Miss Quinn – Miss Read
A Mountain of Crumbs – Elena Gorokhova
Bulldog Drummond – Sapper
Rebus’s Scotland – Ian Rankin
Headlong – Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
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Lucy Wayles Series by Lydia Adamson
1. Beware the Tufted Duck (1996)
Birder Murder Mystery series by Steve Burrows
1. A Siege of Bitterns (2014)
Birdwatcher’s Mysteries by Christine Goff
1. A Rant of Ravens (2000)
Bird Lovers Mystery by J.R. Ripley
1. Die, Die Birdie (2016)
George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves
1. A Bird In The Hand (1986)
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Aaron and I will be spending a week in Edinburgh, the City of Literature. Here are 5 mysteries I want to read before our trip:
Blood in the Water - Gillian Galbraith
The Wages of Sin - Kaite Welsh
The Goldenacre - Philip Miller
Deadly Editions - Paige Shelton
In Place of Fear - Catriona McPherson
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Books Mentioned:
Night Watch – Stephen Kendrick
Criminal – Karin Slaughter
The Case of the Missing Servant – Tarquin Hall
The Librarian Always Rings Twice – Marty Wingate
This is What Happened – Mick Herron
Date With Danger – Julia Chapman
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I bought some books!! I'm pretty excited about these. Except for one, they are all mysteries. Let March Mystery Madness continue forever!!
Whodunit? Mystery Bookstore is in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Check out their catalogue of new and used books here - whodunitbooks.ca
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The two books that I choose from the Vault to read in April are The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway and A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova.
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway. Winners, please email me with your mailing address within 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, I will choose another winner.
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Books Mentioned:
Gone With the Twins - Kylie Logan
Old City Hall - Robert Rotenberg
Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen - Donald Bain
Mystery of the Haunted Pool - Phyllis A. Whitney
A Witness to Murder - Verity Bright
Night Watch - Stephen Kendrick
The Leavenworth Case - Anna K. Green
Old Detectives Home - Mike Befeler
The Chuckling Fingers - Mabel Seeley
Co-hosts for MMM 2023:
Co-Creators
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Social Media Coordinators
Discord, Goodreads, & Twitter:
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All other Co-Hosts in Alphabetical Order by Channel Name
Kevvie - @CestKevvie
Courtny - @Courtagonist
Kate - @katehowereads
Marilyn - @MarilynMayaMendoza
Steve - @saintdonoghue
Beth - @SoulStainedInk
Stormi - @StormReads
Tiffany - @theBeachbumbookworm
Sarah - @thebookishknitter
Tim - @timsreadingroom
Janelle - @TooFondofBooksJH
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This video was requested by @aekorfker. Thanks for the suggestion! This was fun to put together.
Art Crime Mysteries
Iain Pears – Jonathan Argyll series
• The Art Theft Squad in Rome
Derek Wilson – Tim Lacy Artworld series
• Tim Lacy, a security expert investigating crime and fraud in the international art world
Hailey Lind – Art Lover’s Mysteries
• Annie Kincaid, a reformed art forger now in the faux finishing business, in the Art Lover’s mysteries; cozy
Janet Laurence - Canaletto
• In this series, the painter/artist is the detective. Mid-1700’s
The English Assassin/The Rembrandt Affair – Daniel Silva
• Gabriel Allon, a world-class art restorer and former member of the Israeli Secret Service
A Virgin on the Rocks – Michael Butterworth
False Impression – Jeffrey Archer
Nothing Ventured – Jeffrey Archer
• Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit
The Art Thief – Noah Charney
Doors Open – Ian Rankin
Painted Ladies – Robert B. Parker
The Vanishing Man – Charles Finch
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Sister Fidelma - Peter Tremayne
• Absolution by Murder –1994
Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal - Priscilla Royal
• Wine of Violence 2004
Abbess Helewise – Alys Clare
• Fortune Like the Moon 1999
Brother Cadfael – Ellis Peters
• A Morbid Taste for Bones 1977
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Echo 1980
Brother Athelston – Paul Doherty
• Nightingale Gallery 1990
Sister Frevisse – Margaret Fraser
• The Novice’s Tale 1992
Brother Michael – Susanna Gregory
• A Plague on Both Your Houses 1996
Abbess of Meaux – Cassandra Clark
• Hangman Blind 2008
Joanna Stafford – Nancy Bilyeau
• The Crown 2012
Sister Pelagia – Boris Akunin
• Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog 2000
Rev. Mother Aquinas – Cora Harrison
• A Shameful Murder 2015
Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton
• 5 collections of short stories between 1911-1935
SISTER MARY HELEN Series - Sister Carol Anne O’Marie
• A Novena for Murder 1984
Father Tom Christmas – C.C. Bennison
• Twelve Drummers Drumming 2011
Canon Clement – Rev. Richard Coles
• Murder Before Evensong 2022
Father Dowling – Ralph McInercy
• Her Death of Cold 1977
Sister Joan – Veronica Black
• A Vow of Silence 1990
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Do you re-read mysteries? Let's talk about whether there is any value in reading a mystery that you have read before.
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The fourth prompt for March Mystery Madness is Repeat. Today's recommendation is One for the Money by Janey Evanovich.
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Books Mentioned:
Murder on the Pilgrim's Way - Julie Wassmer
Satan in St. Mary's - P.C Doherty
The Moon-Spinners - Mary Stewart
Death in Cyprus - M.M. Kaye
Tour de Force - Christianna Brand
Killers of a Certain Age - Deanna Raybourn
Death at the Dance - Verity Bright
The Secret of the Lost Pearls - Darcie Wilde
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Thanks to Art @ArtBookshelfOdyssey for the inspiration for this video. Check out his historical mystery edition video - youtube.com/watch?v=dhCoXq2YK-Y
The Questions:
1. Which Historical would you make into a movie?
2. Which Historical would you use to build a fire in an emergency?
3. Which Historical would you read again in one weekend?
4. Which Historical would you pick to move to the town it takes place in?
5. Which Historical would you pick to never read another in the series?
6. Which Historical would you pick to eat every food mentioned in the story?
7. Which Historical would you pick to take on a 2 week vacation as your only book?
8. Which Historical would you recommend to someone who has never read a historical?
9. Which Historical would you pick to dress and act like the main character?
10. Which Historical would you pick to read the next 3 in the series back to back?
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With the theme, Spring Cleaning, how could I not do a sleuth by type of cleaners!!
Books Mentioned:
Death at Buckingham Castle - C.C. Bennison
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries - Emily Brightwell
Mrs. Hudson and the Spirit’s Curse - Martin Davies
The Maid – Nita Prose
A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate – Susanna Calkins
Maid for Murder – Barbara Colley
Murder on Monday – Ann Purser
Every Crooked Nanny - Kathy Hogan Trocheck (aka Mary Kay Andrews)
Shakespeare’s Landlord – Charlaine Harris
The Belles of Solace Glen – Susan S. James
Blanche on the Lam – Barbara Neely
Scene of the Grime – Suzanne Price
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The book I found for this round is Death at the Dance by Verity Bright.
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2 tv shows –
• The Cleaner (1 series; another coming) – UK; Greg Davies; Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead, a state-certified cleaning technician, is responsible for the removal of any signs of death from crime scenes.
• Mr. & Mrs. Murder (1 series) – set in Australia; married couple who run a crime scene cleaning business and solve murders on the side.
Mysteries Involving Crime Scene Cleaners:
Hazardous Duty – Christy Barritt
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death – Charlie Huston
Ghost Dusters series – Wendy Roberts
• First in series is The Remains of the Dead - 5 in series
Crime Scene Cleaners series – Chris Bauer
• PHILO TROUT: Retired Navy SEAL. Former bare-knuckles boxing champ. Current crime scene cleaner.
• First in series is Hiding Among the Dead 2019
Aftermath, Inc – Gil Reavill
• Non-fiction; Cleaning up after CSI goes home
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In today's video I recommend a book that would fit the prompt of Rinse for March Mystery Madness. The book is The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan.
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Books Mentioned:
Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
Seventy-Seven Clocks - Christopher Fowler
Pooh's Spring-Cleaning Mystery - Walt Disney
Of Manners and Murder - Anastasia Hastings
A Trace of Poison - Colleen Cambridge
Murder at the National Gallery - Jim Eldridge
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Here are 6 stand-alones from the Queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, that really stand out:
Death Comes As the End
Ordeal by Innocence
Crooked House
The Pale Horse (1961)
They Came to Baghdad
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
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Retirement Community
• The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
• Getting Old is Murder - Rita Lakin
• Whack ‘n’ Roll – Gail Oust
• The Hangman’s Row Enquiry – Ann Purser
• Death in the Sunshine – Steph Broadribb
• The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders - Corinne Holt Sawyer
• Death in Sunset Grove – Minna Lindgren
• Crash Course - Kathy Hogan Trocheck
• Old Detectives Home – Mike Befeler
Unassuming Little Old Lady
• 4.50 From Paddington – Agatha Christie
• Killer in the Kitchen – Donald Bain
• Miss Seeton Draws the Line – Heron Carvic
• The Case is Closed – Patricia Wentworth
• The Marlow Murder Club - Robert Thorogood
• Invisible - Lorena McCourtney
• The Condo Kill - Richard Barth
• Death Rides the Surf – Nora Charles
Octogenarian (80’s) & Nonagenarian (90’s)
• The Windsor Knot – S.J. Bennett
• The Famous DAR Murder Mystery - Graham Landrum
• Indian Pipes - Cynthia Riggs
• Running Out of Road - Daniel Friedman
• Hiroshima Boy - Naomi Hirahara
• Pretty is as Pretty Does – Elizabeth Spann Craig
• Retirement Homes are Murder – Mike Befeler
Unexpected pairings
• Ladies Smythe and Westin – Lisa Q. Mathews
• HUBBERT & LIL Series - Gallagher Gray (aka Katy Munger
• Biggie Weatherford and her 12-year-old grandson – Nancy Bell
Retired Professionals (detectives, assassins)
• Killers of a Certain Age – Deanna Raybourn
• The Deal Goes Down – Larry Beinhart
• Once a Spy - Keith Thompson
• The Concrete Pillow - Ronald Tierney
• Miss Melville Returns - Evelyn E. Smith
• Self’s Punishment - Bernhard Schlink
Recently Retired/Active
• Mrs. Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh – Simon Brett
• Scandal in Fair Haven – Carolyn Hart
• Arson and Old Lace - Patricia Harwin
• Murder at the Falls - Stefanie Matteson
• The Elusive Relation - Helen Macie Osterman
• Thistle & Twigg - Mary Saums
• Murder Talks Turkey – Deb Baker
• Tall, Dead, and Handsome - Annie Griffin (aka Sally Chapman)
• When Did We Lose Harriet? - Patricia (Houck) Sprinkle
• Quaker Silence - Irene Allen
• A Prey to Murder – Ann Cleeves
• Something Wicked– E.X. Ferrars
• Fox Tracks – Rita Mae Brown
• The Cart Before the Crime - Joyce Porter
• Murder Among the Well-to-Do - Ellen Godfrey
• Rotten Apple - Edith Piñero Green
Still Going Strong
• The Invisible Code – Christopher Fowler
• The Coroner’s Lunch - Colin Cotterill
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The book I choose that fit this week's categories of a mystery set in a city with a male detective is Satan in St. Mary's by Paul Doherty.
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Private Investigators
Sue Grafton
• Kinsey Milhone; 1980’s California
Robert B. Parker
• Spencer; Boston
Julie Wassmer
• Pearl Nolan; Whitstable
Cathy Ace
• WISE Enquiries Agency; 4 women (Welsh, Irish, Scottish, English) Wales
Conrad Allen (Edward Marston)
• George Porter Dillman, private detective for the Cunard Line (set in 1907)
John Baker
• Sam Turner, a private investigator in York
Colin Bateman
• The Small Bookseller with No Name becomes an investigator when the detective agency next door goes out of business, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the Mystery Man series
Cara Black
• Aimee Leduc; owner of a detective agency specializing in corporate security, in Paris
Victoria Blake
• Samantha (Sam) Falconer, a world judo champion turned private investigator at the Gentle Way investigation agency in London, working in Oxford, England
Rhys Bowen
• Molly Murphy; turn of the century New York
P.J. Brackston (Paula Brackston)
• Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now a 35-year-old private investigator, and her brother Hans, in 1770s Bavaria, Germany, in the Brothers Grimm mysteries
Miles Burton
• Desmond Merrion, a military intelligence officer who becomes a private detective, and Henry Arnold, a Scotland Yard inspector, in England
Eileen Dewhurst
• Phyllida Moon, an actor playing a detective gets works at a private detective agency, in London, England
Anabel Donald
• Alex Tanner: freelance TV researcher and part-time private investigator, in London, England, in the Notting Hill mysteries
Margaret Duffy
• Joanna McKenzie, a former CID turned private investigator in Bath, England
Sarah Dunant
• Hannah Wolfe, a private investigator in London, England
Liz Evans
• Grace Smith, a private investigator in Seatoun, England with Vetch’s Investigations
Robert Galbraith
• Cormoran Strike, a private detective, and his secretary Robin Ellacott, in London, England
Ann Granger
• Fran Varady, an out-of-work actress turned private investigator, in London, England;
Tarquin Hall
• Vish Puri, the portly Punjabi founder of Most Private Investigators Ltd., a detective agency in Delhi, India
Vaseem Khan
• Inspector Chopra; Mumbai
Mike Harrison
• Eddie Dancer, an ex-cop private investigator in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Veronica Heley
• Bea Abbot, recently widowed owner of the Abbot Agency, which specializes in cases where clients want to avoid police involvement, in London, England
Peter Helton
• Chris Honeysett, an artist and private investigator, in and around Bath, England
Mick Herron
• Zoë Boehm, a 40-something private investigator in Oxford
P.D. James
• Cordelia Gray
Paul Johnston
• Quintilian Dalrymple, a private investigator in 2020s Edinburgh, Scotland; Body Politic (1997)
Allan Levine
• Sam Klein, a street-wise Jewish immigrant and private investigator, in 1911-1919 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Alexander McCall Smith
• Precious Ramotzwe; No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency; Botswana
Lisa Lutz
• Isabele “Izzy” Spellman, a 28-year old sleuth working for her parents’ private investigation firm, in San Francisco, California
Patricia Wentworth
• Miss Silver; retired governess
Jacqueline Winspear
• Maisie Dobbs; 1920’s
DESERT FLOWERS MYSTERY Series – Lee Hollis; Main Character: Poppy Harmon, Retired widow, owner of the Desert Flowers Detective Agency, Palm Springs, California
World’s End Investigation Bureau – Alys Clare
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In this video I recommend a mystery that would fit the prompt of lather. Slough House by Mick Herron. I couldn't get that book from the library, so I actually read from Spook Street, the 4th book in the series. Don't worry, no spoilers!
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@BernasBookishAdventures
@DearReaders_thisisJess (find Jess on Instagram)
Books Mentioned:
Belshazzar's Daughter - Barara Nadel
Bertie and the Tinman - Peter Lovesey
The Chuckling Fingers - Mabel Seeley
Fallen - Karin Slaughter
Patterns in the Dust - Lesley Grant-Adamson
A Pinch of Poison - Alyssa Maxwell
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Sleuth by Type – Titled Detectives
Lord Peter Wimsey – Dorothy L. Sayers
• Whose Body? 1923; 15 in series; second son of a Duke
DI Lynley – Elizabeth George
• A Great Deliverance 1988; 21 in series; 8th Earl of Asherton
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales - Peter Lovesey
• Bertie and the Tin Man 1987; 3 in series; Prince of Wales
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates - S.J. Bennett
• The Windsor Knot 2020; 3 in series with 4th planned
Elizabeth I – Karen Harper
• The Poyson Garden 1999; 9 in series
Lady Emily – Tasha Alexander
• And Only to Deceive 2005; 17 in series; married a viscount
Daisy Dalrymple – Carola Dunn
• Death at Wentwater Court 1994; 23 in series; Honorable Daisy Dalrymple
Her Royal Spyness – Rhys Bowen
• Her Royal Spyness 2007; 16 in series; Lady Georgiana Rannoch
Blotto, the Honourable Devereux Lyminster, and his sister Twinks, Lady Honoria
• Blotto, Twinks, and the Ex-King’s Daughter 2009; 12 in series; son and daughter of Duke
Lady Lupin – Joan Coggins
• Who Killed the Curate? 1944; 4 in series; daughter of an Earl
Sir Henry Merrivale – Carter Dickson
• The Plague Court Murders 1934; 22 in series; holder of one of the oldest baronetcies in England, physician, barrister, and head of military intelligence for the war office in England
Sebastian St. Cyr – C.S. Harris
• What Angels Fear 2005; 18 in series; Viscount Devlin, son of an Earl
Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton – Kate Kingsbury
• A Bicycle Built for Murder 2001; 9 in series; daughter of an Earl
Gideon St Mars – Patricia Wynn
• The Birth of Blue Satan 2001; 7 in series; viscount (son of an earl)
Lady Rose – Marion Chesney
• Snobbery with Violence 2003; 4 in series; daughter of an Earl
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‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.’ - Otto Penzler
Books Mentioned:
The Haunted Bookshop – Christopher Morley
Henry Gamage series – Elizabeth Daly
The Godwulf Manuscript – Robert B. Parker
Death on Demand series – Carolyn Hart
Cliff Janeway series – John Dunning
Original Sin – P.D. James
Booklover’s series – Julie Kaewart
Thursday Next series – Jasper Fforde
Mobile Library series – Ian Sansom
Booktown series – Lorna Barrett
Bibliophile Mysteries series – Kate Carlisle
Book Collector series – Victoria Abbott
The Bookseller – Mark Pryor
The Scottish bookshop series – Paige Shelton
First Edition Library series – Marty Wingate
Murder by the Book – Martin Edwards
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The book I choose that fit this week's categories is Bertie and the Tin Man by Peter Lovesey.
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Hercule Poirot Mystery Book Tag
Created by @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
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Prompts:
1. Hercule Poirot is a detective who is extremely proud of his achievements. In The Mystery of the Blue Train, he announced “My name is Hercule Poirot, and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.” If not Poirot, who is your favourite detective? (And what book do you recommend featuring your favourite?)
2. Hercule Poirot famously uses his “Little grey cells” to solves cases - have you ever solved an Agatha Christie mystery? If yes, which one? If no, is there an author whose mysteries you have solved?
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the introduction to Hercule Poirot. Recommend a first book in a series where you met one of your favourite characters.
4. Murder on the Orient Express: Agatha Christie wrote several Poirot books set on different types of transport. What is your favourite mystery set on a train/ plane/ boat?
5. The ABC Murders features a killer working their way through an alphabet of victims. Recommend a mystery involving a serial killer.
6. Dumb Witness: Bob the dog helps Poirot’s investigation in this one. Can you recommend a book where an animal helps to solve the case?
7. Five Little Pigs (also adapted as a play Go Back for Murder): Poirot solves several cases in his time that have been closed for years. Which is your favourite “cold case” Poirot? If you don’t have one, can you recommend any other authors/ detectives who have solved past cold case?
8. Dead Man’s Folly is famously set at Agatha christie’s own holiday home, Greenway. What is your favourite murder mystery setting?
9. Do you have a favourite Poirot mystery? (If not, tell us a favourite mystery you’ve read recently.)
10. How many Poirot books have you read? (If you’ve not read any or haven’t read many yet, which one do you plan to read next?
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I am recommending a book that will fit the first prompt of messy or gritty. It's Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton.
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0:00 Books Mentioned:
0:17 The Secrets of Hartwood Hall - Katie Lumsden
A Picture of Murder - T.E. Kinsey
A Calamitous Chinese Killing - Shamini Flint
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THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
March Mystery Madness Giveaway Details
I will be giving away 4 books. The giveaway is open for entire month of March. The giveaway is open to anyone anywhere in the world.
To enter the giveaway:
1. You have to be subscribed to my channel.
2. Read a mystery and then comment on this video with the name of the book you read and the name of the author and a thumbs up or a thumbs down. It has to be a mystery. I will be using the honour system and therefore reserve the right to ignore comments that do not look legitimate. Every book you leave in the comments is an entry into the giveaway. Each entry increases your chances of winning. However, you can only win one book.
I will post a video in the first week of April announcing the winners
• The winners are responsible for contacting my by email (in the description box) with their mailing addresses. I will send the books within a week of receiving your address. Will send by regular post.
• If I do not receive an email with a mailing address within 2 weeks, I will draw another winner.
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Old Stuff Day (10 Mysteries That Have Languished on My Shelves for 14 Years)
1. The Floating Admiral – The Detection Club
2. The Greek Coffin Mystery – Ellery Queen
3. The Case of the Glamourous Ghost – Erle Stanley Gardiner
4. The Bat – Mary Roberts Rinehart
5. From Doon With Death – Ruth Rendell
6. Pride and Predator – Sally Wright
7. Words for Murder Perhaps – Edward Candy
8. Maigret and the Informer – Simenon
9. A Shilling for Candles – Josephine Tey
10. Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper – Pamela West
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A Calamitous Chinese Killing - Shamini Flint
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Books Mentioned:
A Spoonful of Murder - J.M. Hall
Blotto, Twinks, & the Ex-King's Daughter - Simon Brett
Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy
The Thomas Street Horror - Raymond Paul
Murder at the Majestic Hotel - Clara McKenna
A World of Curiosities - Louise Penny
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
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@mitzireadsandwrites
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Books Mentioned:
Great Novels: The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained
The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie
When Christ and His Saints Slept - Sharon Kay Penman
Little Minister - J.M. Barrie
Murder Before Evensong - Richard Coles
Emily Davis - Miss Read
A Bride's Guide to Marriage and Murder - Dianne Freeman
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@faithbooks7906 - youtube.com/watch?v=4ROCv-PJopw
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The Leavenworth Case – Anna Katherine Green
Check out Tim's channel for more info on his readalong @timsreadingroom
Murder on the Pilgrims Way – Julie Wassmer @CarolynsReadingRamblings
From the Vault – Old City Hall (Read Your Bookshelf Challenge); Patterns in the Dust @ChantelReadsAllDay
Murder on the Links – Agatha Christie (ChristieFest)
1. Messy – Read a mystery or thriller that is a bit messy.
• Satan in St. Mary’s – Paul Doherty
• City of Dark Hearts – James Conan
• A Room with Dark Mirrors – Velda Johnston
• A Calamitous Chinese Killing – Shamini Flint
• A Child’s Garden of Death – Richard Forrest
• An Uncertain Place – Fred Vargas
2. Lather - Read about a cop or detective who is "cleaning up."
• A Study in Scarlet Women – Sherry Thomas (cleaning up her family name)
• Giotto’s Hand – Iain Pears (cold case)
• A Wicked Conceit – Anna Lee Huber (cleaning up their reputation)
3. Rinse - Read something on the cozier side of things or read a classic mystery.
• The White Priory Murders – Carter Dickson
• The Sleeping Sphinx – John Dickson Carr
• The Corpse at the Crystal Palace – Carola Dunn
• It Walks by Night – John Dickson Carr
• An Heir to Murder – Charles Heathcote
• Marigolds and Murder – London Lovett
• Constable Over the Stile – Nicholas Rhea
• The Joy and Light Bus Company – Alexander McCall Smith
• The Chuckling Fingers – Mabel Seeley
• A Happy English Child – Ursula Zilinsky
• A Little Gentle Sleuthing – Betty Rowlands
4. Repeat - Reread a book or read a book by an author you've read before.
• Seventy-Seven Clocks – Christopher Fowler
• The Black Friar – S.G. MacLean
• The Dying Day – Vaseem Khan
• The Birth of Blue Satan – Patricia Wynn
• The Scapegoat – Daphne du Maurier
• The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag – Alan Bradley
• The Indian Man in the Brown Sherwani – Riya Emily Kapoor (homage)
• Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz (homage)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly (repeat investigation)
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Welcome to the 8th Annual March Mystery Madness!
Find all of our social media links for #marchmysterymadness here:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness
Co-Creators
Elizabeth @lizziefayelovesbooks
Troi @TowelTroi
Social Media Coordinators
Discord, Goodreads, & Twitter:
Di @Disis19Hearts
Jenn @RememberedReads
All other Co-Hosts in Alphabetical Order by Channel Name
Kevvie - @CestKevvie
Courtny - @Courtagonist
Kate - @katehowereads
Marilyn - @MarilynMayaMendoza
Steve - @saintdonoghue
Beth - @SoulStainedInk
Stormi - @StormReads
Tiffany - @theBeachbumbookworm
Sarah - @thebookishknitter
Tim - @timsreadingroom
Janelle - @TooFondofBooksJH
Announcement Video - youtu.be/FveUGHv9nco
Previous MMM video recommending books with Spring in the title - youtu.be/QT17sG77TnE
Theme - Spring Cleaning
• Spring Cleaning Murders – Dorothy Cannell
• Spring Cleaning – Antonio Manzini
1. Messy/Gritty
• Veil of Lies – Jeri Westerson
• Wine of Violence - Priscilla Royal
• The Seeker – S.G. MacLean
• Singapore Sapphire – A.M. Stuart
• A Famine of Horses – P.F. Chisholm
• Murder at the Brightwell – Ashley Weaver
• The Crown – Nancy Bileyeau
• Whisky from Small Glasses – Denzil Meyrick
• Little Black Lies – Sharon Bolton
2. Lather
• Ursula Blanchard series – Fiona Buckley (The Robsart Mystery aka To Shield the Queen)
• Rosalind Thorne – Darcie Wilde (The Secret of the Lost Pearls)
• Mrs. Hudson and the Spirit’s Curse – Martin Davies
• Full Dark House – Christopher Fowler
• A Shot in the Dark – Lynne Truss
• No Cure for the Dead – Christine Trent
• The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries – Emily Brightwell
• Her Royal Spyness – Rhys Bowen
• A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate – Susanna Calkins
• Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains (#5) – Catriona McPherson
• Exit – Belinda Bauer
• The Bone Garden – Tess Gerristsen
• The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
• Tears of the Giraffe – Alexander McCall Smith
• The Complaints – Ian Rankin
3. Rinse -
• Towards Zero – Agatha Christie
• Footsteps in the Dark – Georgette Heyer
• Green for Danger – Christianna Brand
• The Moving Toyshop – Edmund Crispin
• Trent’s Last Case – E.C. Bentley
• The Honjin Murders – Seishi Yokomizo
• Death in Captivity – Michael Gilbert
• Death in Castle Dark – Veronica Bond
• The Affair of the Mutilated Mink Coat – James Anderson
• Malice in Maggody – Joan Hess
• Death at the Dance – Verity Bright
• The Case of the Canterfell Codicil – PJ Fitzsimmons
• Wouldn’t It Be Deadly? – D.E. Ireland
4. Repeat
A case was solved but turns out to wrong; has to be investigated again.
• The Case is Closed – Patricia Wentworth
• Ordeal by Innocence – Agatha Christie
• A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder – Shamini Flint
• My Sister’s Grave – Robert Dugoni
An Homage or Pastishe
• The Decagon House Murders – Yukito Ayatsuji
• A Talent for Murder/Death in a Desert Land/I Saw Him Die – Andrew Wilson
• The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn – Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
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Find out who won the giveaway for High Rising by Angela Thirkell. If the winner could please email me their mailing address, I will send this book off to you as soon as possible.
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Books Mentioned:
Homecoming - Kate Morton
The Water Room - Christopher Fowler
Miss Seeton Draws the Line - Heron Carvic
Pilgrim's Rest - Patricia Wentworth
Broken - Karin Slaughter
May Day Murder - Julie Wassmer
Cleaning the Gold - Karin Slaughter and Lee Child
The Golden Crucible - Jean Stubbs
Silver Blaze - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder at the Serpentine Bridge - Andrea Penrose
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Today's recommendation is Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz.
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