September 2019 Newsletter with Discussion Links

[Gem , Moderator & Admin]

September 2019 Newsletter


Hello fellow Crime, Mystery, and Thriller readers!

📣ANNOUNCEMENTS📣

Crown Publishing is offering five members a free paperback edition of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War which as been on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Please see this discussion for details.
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🏋️‍♂️CHALLENGES🏸

September 2019 Challenge - National Observences Challenge
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Our September 📖GROUP READS📖 are:

      🚔CRIME, MYSTERY & THRILLERS🕵️

🥇First Place in our General Poll:
Recursion by Blake Crouch

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

🥈 Second Place in our General Poll:
Blue Monday (Frieda Klein #1) by Nicci French

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

🥇First Place in our Subgenre (Paranormal / Supernatural) Poll:
Midnight Riot alt title: Rivers of London (Rivers of London Book 1) by Ben Aaronovitch

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

🥇First Place in our Classic Mystery Poll:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

🥇First Place in our Author Self-Nomination Poll
Uncle and Ants (Silicon Valley Mystery #1) by Marc Jedel

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

If you are planning on participating in the discussion(s) for this selection send an email to marc@marcjedel.com, use the name of the group "Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers" and tell him which format you'd like him to send you.

Marc who just received a contract for an audiobook production of his first three books. Congratulations Marc!

      ☕️COZY CORNER🍩

🥇First Place in our Cozy Mystery Poll:
Night of the Living Deed (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery #1) by by E.J. Copperman

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

🥈Second Place in our Cozy Mystery Poll:
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1) by Kerry Greenwood

Group Discussions: no spoilers and spoilers permitted

      ✒️FOCUS ON THE AUTHOR✒️


Focus on Louise Penny:

We are going read A Trick of the Light in September and October to give some additional time to allow folks who may be behind to get caught up with where we are in the series.

Group Discussion: A Trick of the Light


      🚔TRUE CRIME👮

🥇 First Place in our True Crime Poll:
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Group Discussion: spoilers permitted

The September Group Read discussions will be opened on Wednesday, August 28.
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THANK YOU to all the members 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 👨‍👦 👨‍👦‍👦 👨‍👧 👨‍👧‍👦 👨‍👧‍👧 👩‍👦 👩‍👦‍👦 👩‍👧 👩‍👧‍👦 👩‍👧‍👧 who nominated ✍🏼 and voted 🗳️ for our GROUP READS. Also a big Thank you to those members who are hosting our Group Reads. It's you who make this group as successful as it is.
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Our ✍🏼 September Nomination Discussions✍🏼 are now open:

Crime, Mystery & Thriller General Nominations

Classic Nominations

Subgenre (Horror) Nominations

Cozy Mystery Nominations

Nominations for September will close on Sunday, August 4 at approximately 7:30pm MST (UTC/GMT -7).

Our True Crime Nomination discussion is always open. Feel free to make a nomination there anytime.
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📌REMINDERS 📌

📌Have suggestions for the group? Post a note in our 💡Suggestion Box.

📌Come on over and chat with us here: Let's Chat.

📌Would you like to participate in a 👫Buddy Read👭? Read this discussion, it will tell you how to get one started. Remember that Buddy Reads are member lead book discussions, you chose the book and you set the reading pace.

Here are a few resources for our new members:
📌 📜Group Rules📜
📌 ✍🏼Nomination Guidelines and Polling Information🗳️
📌 🤝Introductions🤝

📌AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS be sure to abide by our ✒️Author & Publisher Guidelines📔. Failure to do so can result in your discussions being removed.

📙Happy Reading!📚
Your Crime, Mystery & Thriller Moderators

[Icewineanne]

Hi Gem, the let’s chat link leads to the archive site

[˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜, Moderator]

And The Hangman isn't being extended. A Trick of the Light will start September 1 and go through October 31st. The Hangman is only 87 pages so it's too short to extend.

Thanks. Great stuff happening here.

[Gem , Moderator & Admin]

Icewineanne wrote: "Hi Gem, the let’s chat link leads to the archive site"

Thanks Anne, I missed that when we started a new chat, it's now corrected.

[Gem , Moderator & Admin]

Sheri wrote: "And The Hangman isn't being extended. A Trick of the Light will start September 1 and go through October 31st. The Hangman is only 87 pages so it's too short to extend.

Thanks. Great stuff happeni..."

I've updated the information to correctly reflect what's happening with our Focus on Louise Penny. I'm sorry for the confusion.

[Dawn]

Hello everyone I cannot find the link to October polls and votingThanks

[MaureenAnn]

Dawn wrote: "Hello everyone I cannot find the link to October polls and votingThanks"

Hi Dawn, my understanding is that nominations for the various categories are open until tomorrow (Sept 1.) Then there is some admin work to be done for a couple of days and the October polls will be open from Sept 4 to Sept 8. Gem will send a general message when the polls open.

[Dawn]

Thanks Maureen