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The Mystery, Mayhem, and Murder Squad Reading Challenge - PART I
Whoa. Sandy! Congrats on finishing.
**hee hee** I was thinking the same thing. Devious minds think alike.
Yep, me too! I'm really looking for ideas for categories like Technothriller, Paranormal Mystery and Sci-Fi :)
I was gifted with one of his books, Steven. Looks great. Like a roller-coaster ride!
Having never read one (yet!), I didn't know that .. thanks :)
Here are a few paranormal mysteries.That Old Flame of Mine
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye
What's a Ghoul to Do?
Brownies and Broomsticks
Secondhand Spirits
Oh, thanks, Sandy. I've been looking at
for awhile now.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Oh, thanks, Sandy. I've been looking at for awhile now."It was a cute one. As a slight warning and/or spoiler, (view spoiler)
You mean which geometric configurations, Steven? Either (view spoiler). If you mean which book, the one Rebecca mentioned in Post #226.
I am reading the second one in September - I will let you know if (view spoiler). @Steven - the "A Magical Bakery Mystery" series.
Barb wrote: "Yep, me too! I'm really looking for ideas for categories like Technothriller, Paranormal Mystery and Sci-Fi :)"lol, Barb - those are the categories I had the easiest time filling! I'm struggling with the culinary category...I'm just not sure I find bake shops that thrilling ;)
For paranormal, you might like Discount Armageddon a little better than you liked The Dresden Files - it's a lot less dark.
The Rook is really great as well, and could work for a few categories.
Oh, my mistake. I have several Rollins because someone - who shall remain nameless **coughStevencough** - told me about a $.99 sale on audible!! The one I was gifted with is
by J.D. Rhoades.
Challenge: The Mystery, Mayhem, and Murder Squad Reading Challenge Duration: 1 Sept 2013 - 31 Aug 2014
Details: Crime Scene Investigator -one of each
Complete: 4/25
✔★★★★★
✔ Amateur Sleuth
Silent in the Grave Mar 28, 2014 ★★★★
Aristocratic Detective
Caper
Cozy Mystery
Culinary Mystery
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Double Act
✔FBI
Deadly Fear Feb 18, 2014 ★★★★
Forensic Specialist
Futuristic
Origin in Death
Historical
Legal
✔Medical
Harvest Nov 2013 ★★★★★
Missing Person
Noir
Romantic Suspense
Rooting for the Bad Guy
✔Paranormal Mystery
In Too Deep Feb 06, 2014 ★★★
Police Procedural
Private Eye
Professional Sleuth
Proprietor Mysteries
Murder by Mocha
Sci-Fi
Scotland Yard
Thriller
Techno-thriller
Lisa Kay wrote: "Sharon wrote: "How would you classify Joan Hess's Arly Hanks Maggody series? I find them very funny and was thinking maybe they would work as a caper?"I would agree, Sharon."
Thank you - great news!
Amateur Sleuth:
✔Aristocratic Detective: The aristocratic detective novels are usually - but not exclusively - featuring a member of British gentry and set in Britain’s Golden Age.
Caper: A caper is a comic crime story. Instead of suave and calculating, the caper chronicles the efforts of the lovable bungler or protagonist who either thinks big or ridiculously small. Finally we get to laugh.
Cozy Mystery: A bloodless crime and a victim who won’t be missed. The solution can be determined using emotional (Miss Marple) or logical (Poirot) reasoning.
Culinary Mystery: Chef, baker, wine connoisseur; if it’s ingestible and includes recipes, it’s a culinary mystery.
Double Act: It takes two to solve this mystery. They may be working together at the beginning, or not. Nevertheless, these partners help each other out by the end.
FBI/CIA/ATF:
✔Forensic Specialist:
✔Futuristic: Set in the future, whether in our world or another.
Historical Mystery:
✔Legal: Although popular, these tales are usually penned by actual lawyers due to the demands of the information presented.
Medical: Doctors make effective protagonists since they seem to exist on a plane far above the rest of us.
Missing Person Mystery: Someone’s gone missing!
Noir: Noir is a mood: gritty, bleak, and unforgiving. The usual brutality is about as far from Cozy as you can get.
Romantic Suspense: Add a hefty dose of romance to a suspense and produce a romantic suspense novel.
Rooting for the Bad Guy:
✔Paranormal Mystery:
✔ Police Procedural:
✔Private Eye: The PI is as much an American icon as the Western gunslinger. This sub-genre is known for protagonists with a strong code of honor.
Professional Sleuth: The professional sleuth is an amateur sleuth in a professional setting, preferably a setting which is unique and intriguing.
Proprietor Mysteries: Small business owners in mysteries are plentiful.
Sci-Fi:
✔Scotland Yard: The epitome of the investigator needed to solve a mystery, Britian’s Chief Inspectors working for Scotland Yard are in a class by themselves.
Thriller: Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.
Technothriller:
✔
Lisa Kay wrote: "Oh, thanks, Sandy. I've been looking at for awhile now."This looks really cute. Just added it to my TBR..
Steven wrote: "Anyone else feel like Dresden books could also be Noir? I've only read the first, but it came across as Noir (with paranormal elements) mixed in as well."Oh, yes. Definitely. I used that word in my review of the first book, Steven.
Steven wrote: "Anyone else feel like Dresden books could also be Noir? I've only read the first, but it came across as Noir (with paranormal elements) mixed in as well."They definitely have the cynicism I associate with noir.
Ok. I found a mystery about a pet food chef -- do you think it counts as a culinary mystery :-)
I would think a pet food chef could count as culinary. After all, the definition of culinary is: "Of or relating to a kitchen or to cookery." You need to use the kitchen to cook the pet food, right? hehe!
Level: CSIStart date: 2013-09-05
Amateur Sleuth:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Top Secret Twenty-One
Aristocratic Detective: The aristocratic detective novels are usually - but not exclusively - featuring a member of British gentry and set in Britain’s Golden Age.
Caper:
Bimbos of the Death Sun
Midnight Riot
Cozy Mystery:
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds
Culinary Mystery: Chef, baker, wine connoisseur; if it’s ingestible and includes recipes, it’s a culinary mystery.
Death by Darjeeling
Double Act:
Highgate Rise
O Jerusalem
FBI/CIA/ATF:
The Expats
Forensic Specialist: A medical examiner, forensic pathologist, forensic psychologist, forensic anthropologist, forensic entomologist…you get the idea.
Futuristic: Set in the future, whether in our world or another.
Halting State
Historical Mystery:
The Mummy Case
L'honneur de Sartine
Legal: Although popular, these tales are usually penned by actual lawyers due to the demands of the information presented.
Medical: Doctors make effective protagonists since they seem to exist on a plane far above the rest of us. As with the “Legal” sub-genre, these tales are usually penned by actual doctors due to the demands of the information presented
Missing Person Mystery: Someone’s gone missing! However, you can find one of these in most all the other sub-genres. Finding the missing person should be the focus of the storyline.
The Bones of Paris
Noir:
The Black Dahlia
Romantic Suspense: Add a hefty dose of romance to a suspense and produce a romantic suspense novel. Not only does justice prevail, but love conquers all.
Rooting for the Bad Guy:
Dexter's Final Cut
Paranormal Mystery:
Magic Bites
Magic Strikes
Police Procedural:
Valley of the Lost
Le Pic du diable
Private Eye:
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Snake Tattoo
Professional Sleuth: The professional sleuth is an amateur sleuth in a professional setting, preferably a setting which is unique and intriguing. Not only is inside information used, but solving the crime returns order to a cloistered environment.
White Heat
Proprietor Mysteries:
Aunty Lee's Delights:
Death by Diamonds
Sci-Fi: While the Sci-Fi/Sci-Fy category is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology
Scotland Yard: The epitome of the investigator needed to solve a mystery, Britian’s Chief Inspectors working for Scotland Yard are in a class by themselves.
Thriller: Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. This ride will be a bumpy one! M
Technothriller: Technothrillers are a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from science fiction, thrillers, spy, action, and war. The inner workings of technology and the mechanics of various disciplines (espionage, martial arts, politics) are thoroughly explored, and the plot often turns on the particulars of that exploration.
Amateur Sleuth:
✔Aristocratic Detective: The aristocratic detective novels are usually - but not exclusively - featuring a member of British gentry and set in Britain’s Golden Age.
Caper: A caper is a comic crime story. Instead of suave and calculating, the caper chronicles the efforts of the lovable bungler or protagonist who either thinks big or ridiculously small. Finally we get to laugh.
Cozy Mystery: A bloodless crime and a victim who won’t be missed. The solution can be determined using emotional (Miss Marple) or logical (Poirot) reasoning.
Culinary Mystery: Chef, baker, wine connoisseur; if it’s ingestible and includes recipes, it’s a culinary mystery.
Double Act: It takes two to solve this mystery. They may be working together at the beginning, or not. Nevertheless, these partners help each other out by the end.
FBI/CIA/ATF:
✔Forensic Specialist:
✔Futuristic: Set in the future, whether in our world or another.
Historical Mystery:
✔Legal: Although popular, these tales are usually penned by actual lawyers due to the demands of the information presented.
Medical: Doctors make effective protagonists since they seem to exist on a plane far above the rest of us.
Missing Person Mystery: Someone’s gone missing!
Noir:
✔Romantic Suspense: Add a hefty dose of romance to a suspense and produce a romantic suspense novel.
Rooting for the Bad Guy:
✔Paranormal Mystery:
✔ Police Procedural:
✔Private Eye: The PI is as much an American icon as the Western gunslinger. This sub-genre is known for protagonists with a strong code of honor.
Professional Sleuth: The professional sleuth is an amateur sleuth in a professional setting, preferably a setting which is unique and intriguing.
Proprietor Mysteries: Small business owners in mysteries are plentiful.
Sci-Fi:
✔Scotland Yard: The epitome of the investigator needed to solve a mystery, Britian’s Chief Inspectors working for Scotland Yard are in a class by themselves.
Thriller: Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.
Technothriller:
✔
I have a question: I've read
by Jeffery Deaver last month but don't know where to fit it in? It's part of his Kathryn Dance series and Lincoln Rhyme's does make an appearance in the series, but just a small cameo one... could it fit under Double Act? She also works side by side throughout the book with the Sherrif from Fresno, albeit he is uncooperative at having to share his case with an CBI investigator.
ok..Lisa Kay....
is more of a psychological thriller....where can I put it in this vast list!?!?!?I just looked at Missing Persons...I think it may fit there :)
well..update to post 975/? this is hard! I do read a fair number of mysteries...but it is hard to put them into categories:)
Yes, sounds like Missing Persons or Thriller, Chatherine.
Cathie wrote: "...and Lincoln Rhyme's does make an appearance in the series, but just a small cameo one... could it fit under Double Act?"Sounds like he helped her solve the crime, right? So, I would say yes to Double Act.
Thanks Lisa Kay; I've updated my post (#8) on the 1st page.
Ashley Marie wrote: "I'm struggling with the culinary category...I'm just not sure I find bake shops that thrilling ;)"It doesn't have to be a bake shop, you know :) What about a caterer (the Goldy books by Diane Mott Davidson), a candy shop (by Sammi Carter), a soup shop (by Connie Archer), a diner (the Cackleberry Club series by Laura Childs), or a chef at the White House (by Julie Hyzy)?
Barb wrote: "Ashley Marie wrote: "I'm struggling with the culinary category...I'm just not sure I find bake shops that thrilling ;)"It doesn't have to be a bake shop, you know :) What about a caterer (the Gol..."
Hmm...White House chef sounds pretty good to me! Off to grow Mt. TBR :) Thanks, Barb!
I was going to read
a few months back, but had to return it to the library before I could get to it. Looks good.
Amateur Sleuth:
✔Aristocratic Detective:
✔Caper: A caper is a comic crime story. Instead of suave and calculating, the caper chronicles the efforts of the lovable bungler or protagonist who either thinks big or ridiculously small. Finally we get to laugh.
Cozy Mystery: A bloodless crime and a victim who won’t be missed. The solution can be determined using emotional (Miss Marple) or logical (Poirot) reasoning.
Culinary Mystery: Chef, baker, wine connoisseur; if it’s ingestible and includes recipes, it’s a culinary mystery.
Double Act:
✔FBI/CIA/ATF:
✔Forensic Specialist:
✔Futuristic: Set in the future, whether in our world or another.
Historical Mystery:
✔Legal: Although popular, these tales are usually penned by actual lawyers due to the demands of the information presented.
Medical: Doctors make effective protagonists since they seem to exist on a plane far above the rest of us.
Missing Person Mystery:
✔ Noir:
✔Romantic Suspense: Add a hefty dose of romance to a suspense and produce a romantic suspense novel.
Rooting for the Bad Guy:
✔Paranormal Mystery:
✔ Police Procedural:
✔Private Eye:
✔Professional Sleuth: The professional sleuth is an amateur sleuth in a professional setting, preferably a setting which is unique and intriguing.
Proprietor Mysteries: Small business owners in mysteries are plentiful.
Sci-Fi:
✔Scotland Yard: The epitome of the investigator needed to solve a mystery, Britian’s Chief Inspectors working for Scotland Yard are in a class by themselves.
Thriller:
✔Technothriller:
✔
Would it count for a missing person story if the body of a murder victim goes missing? :)
Mod
Certainly. (view spoiler)
Achieved Grifter and Gumshoe - am on my way to Hard Boiled P.I.!!
A'right, dammit, you've sucked me in. (Anyone other than me think Lisa Kay has a lot to answer for???). Probably go for the whole 50 BUT I'm counting mysteries I've read since the day this challenge was posted, because somehow I missed it. Here's the list of "read" or "on my current reading plan list" books...... Will have a few to add when I get through these. Also probably have to review some categorizations as I go because I'm just guessing on some.11/50 as of 10/12/13
15/50 as of 12/1/13
Amateur Sleuth:
1.
2.
Aristocratic Detective:
1.
2.
Caper:
1. Plum Spooky
(read)2. Plum Lovin'
-- read3. Plum Lucky
Cozy Mystery:
1. Mum's the Word
2. Death on the Nile
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
4. The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse
5. Makeovers Can Be Murder
6. Dead Is the New Black
Culinary Mystery:
1. Holiday Buzz
2. I Scream, You Scream
3. Cookie Dough or Die
4. A Peach of a Murder
Double Act:
1.
2.
FBI/CIA/ATF:
1.
2.
Historical Mystery:
1. The Ninth Daughter
2. Murphy's Law
Legal:
1.
2.
Medical:
1.
2.
Missing Person Mystery:
1. Immoral
(finished 10/16 and it was pretty darn good!)2.
Noir:
1. Thicker Than Water
-- read, and how did I miss this series?2.
Romantic Suspense:
1.
Rooting for the Bad Guy:
1. The Butcher's Boy
-- read2. The Informant
-- read3. Sleeping Dogs
reading 11/294. Hit Me
- readParanormal Mystery:
1. Laced with Magic
- read2. Brownies and Broomsticks
- read3. Perfectly Matched
4. Tulle Death Do Us Part
5. Spun By Sorcery
6. Witch Way to Murder
Police Procedural:
1. Still Life
-- read and wow!2. The Overlook
-- read3. Mission Flats
-- read4. A Fatal Grace
-- reading 11/30Private Eye:
1. And Be a Villain
--read2. Robert B. Parker's Lullaby
- read3. Robert B. Parker's Wonderland
-readProfessional Sleuth:
1. Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure
2.
Proprietor Mysteries:
1. The Long Stitch Good Night
2. Cloche and Dagger
3. Iced Chiffon
Scotland Yard:
1.
2.
Thriller:
1.
2.
Technothriller:
1.
2.
**chuckles** Welcome to the challenge, Jennifer!
I'm sure that some others have just read Etiquette & Espionage since its a BOM. I already have my historical mystery and aristocratic categories filled. Any other ideas where i could slot it....maybe a caper mystery?? I certainly got some laughs from Sophronia's actions.
I would say it works as a caper or paranormal, JoLene. (GC is certainly tongue-in-cheek.) I guess I'll have to add YA and Steampunk to Round II of this challenge.
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Amateur Sleuth
A Crafty Killing by Lorraine Bartlett 8/9
Aristocratic Detective
Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers 8/12
Caper
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich 8/2
Cozy Mystery
The Scarlet Pepper by Dorothy St. James 7/31
Culinary Mystery
You Cannoli Die Once by Shelley Costa 8/6
Double Act
Children of the Mist by Bill Knox 8/5
FBI
The Night Is Alive by Heather Graham 8/7
Forensic Specialist
The Bone Bed by Patricia Conwell 8/15
Historical
Hardcastle's Spy by Graham Ison 7/30
Legal
Angel Condemned by Mary Stanton 8/10
Missing Person
Smoky Mountain Tracks by Donna Ball 8/25
Futuristic
Copper Beach by Jayne Ann Krentz 8/3
Romantic Suspense
Deception Cove by Jayne Castle 8/29
Paranormal
Woof at the Door by Laura Morrigan 8/22
Police Procedural
The Tamarack Murders by Patrick F McManus 8/23
Private Eye
Murder Off the Books by Evelyn David 8/3
Professional Sleuth
Brewing Up a Storm by Emma Lathen 8/19
Proprietor Mysteries
Cloche and Dagger by Jenn McKinlay 8/20
Sci-Fi
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez 8/26
Scotland Yard
Twice in a Blue Moon: An Inspector Henry Tibbett Mystery by Patricia Moyes 8/18