Ducks In A Row (JUN/JUL 25)

[JoAnne]

WOOHOO Caraina!

[Jackie]

Finished.

Ducks In A Row Two Month Mini Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025

1 Loki's Wolves by K.L. Armstrong - 6/2/25
2 Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn - 6/1/25
3 Tripwire by Lee Child - 6/11/25
4 Protector by Martha Carr - 6/4/25
5 The Honor Of Spies by W.E.B. Griffin - 6/5/25
6 The Shadow Wing by Sarah Painter - 6/10/25
7 The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart by Lawrence Block - 6/12/25
8 From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris - 7/26/25
9 Living with the Dead by Kelley Armstrong - 7/22/25

16 The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke - 6/27/25
17 Forever Defend by Michael Anderle - 6/8/25
18 Might Makes Right by Michael Anderle - 6/17/25
19 Seeker's Curse by Alex Archer - 7/14/25

1 These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer - 6/6/25
2 The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - 6/4/25
3 Hexes and Hemlines by Juliet Blackwell - 6/13/25
4 Dead In Plain Sight by Martha Carr - 6/11/25
5 Devious by Sara Rosett - 6/20/25
6 Many a Twist by Sheila Connolly - 6/17/25
7 Gun in the Gardenias by Dale Mayer - 7/19/25

1 What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez - 6/7/25
2 Nomad Redeemed: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle - 6/8/25
3 Milk and Honey by Faye Kellerman - 6/14/25
4 Frozen Tides by Morgan Rhodes - 6/25/25
5 Watchman by Martha Carr - 7/12/25
6 Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indriðason - 6/20/25
7 All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris - 7/23/25

1 Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie - 6/9/25
2 Bright is Her Sight by Judith Berens - 6/8/25
3 Murder on the Tor by Frances Evesham - 6/26/25
4 A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane - 7/6/25
5 Mykonos After Midnight by Jeffrey Siger - 7/12/25
6 When Angels Cry by Michael Anderle - 6/24/25

1 The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie - 6/14/25
2 The Abduction by John Grisham - 6/20/25
3 Murder at Bray Manor by Lee Strauss - 7/10/25
4 A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor - 7/14/25
5 A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman - 7/25/25
6 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris - 7/7/25

1 Only a Monster by Vanessa Len - 6/15/25
2 The Hangman's Revolution by Eoin Colfer - 6/23/25
3 Nomad Unleashed: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle - 7/17/25
4 A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman - 7/24/25

1 Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick - 6/16/25
2 The Last Mile by David Baldacci - 7/2/25
3 Just Make Believe by Maggie Robinson - 7/20/25
4 Nomad Supreme by Craig Martelle - 7/26/25

1 Murder Among the Pyramids by Sara Rosett - 6/21/25
2 Murder at Hartigan House by Lee Strauss - 7/7/25
3 Seven Days by Deon Meyer - 7/29/25

[Melissa A]

FINISHED! June-July Ducks In A Row Two Month Mini Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
(07/31/25)

Rules: Read books from the same series or ‘mix-n-match’ – as long as it is at least three in a row. Like 3, 4, 5? Or 11, 12, 13? 17, 18, 19?

Rows: 10
Books: 57

Row 1 (14)
(Mrs Parish .5) The First Shot Liv Constantine 06/15/25
(Small Town 1) Small Town Secrets Kristy Tate 06/01/25
(Lovely Lethal Gardens 2 Rewind) Yipped in the Yams Dale Mayer 06/07/25
(Sworn to Loathe You 3) Not Friends Rachel John 05/03/25
(Whimbrel House 4) Wizard of Most Wicked Ways (Whimbrel House 4) Charlie N. Holmberg 06/12/25
(Tourist Trap 4.5) Rockets' Dead Glare Lynn Cahoon 06/20/25
(Survivors’ Book Club Mystery 5) Dying to Read Lynn Cahoon 06/14/25
(Tourist Trap 5.5) Santa Puppy Lynn Cahoon 06/20/25
(Dinner Lady Detectives 6) An Extremely Unlikely Death Hannah Hendy 06/04/25
(Tourist Trap 7) Tea Cups and Carnage Lynn Cahoon 06/25/25
(Kinsey Millhone 8) H is for Homicide Sue Grafton 06/03/25
(Amish Candy Shop Mystery 9) Gingerbread Danger Amanda Flower 06/09/25
(Kinsey Millhone 10) J is for Judgement Sue Grafton 07/26/25
(Noodle Shop Mystery 11) The Chow Maniac Vivien Chien 06/17/25

Row 4 (4)
(Tourist Trap 13) Wedding Bell Blues Lynn Cahoon 07/25/25
(Key West Food Critic 14) A Poisonous Palate Lucy Burdette 06/02/25
(Isle of Man 15) Aunt Bessie Observes Diana Xarissa 06/19/25
(Isle of Man 16) Aunt Bessie Provides Diana Xarissa 07/25/24

Row 3 (9)
(The Favorites 1) My Favorite Bad Decision Elizabeth O'Roark 06/02/25
(Every Time I Go on Vacation 2) No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding Catherine Mack 06/15/25
(Tourist Trap 3) If the Shoe Kills Lynn Cahoon 06/18/25
(Leaphorn and Chee 4) People of Darkness Tony Hillerman 06/14/25
(Tourist Trap 5) Killer Run Lynn Cahoon 06/20/25
(Kinsey Millhone 6) F is for Fugitive Sue Grafton 06/01/25
(Tourist Trap 6.5) Mother's Day Mayhem Lynn Cahoon 07/01/25
(Kinsey Millhone 7) G is for Gumshoe Sue Grafton 07/02/25

Row 4 (4)
(Kinsey Millhone 9) I is for Innocent Sue Grafton 07/07/25
(Tourist Trap 10) Memories and Murder Lynn Cahoon 07/04/25
(Tourist Trap 11) Murder in Waiting Lynn Cahoon 07/06/25
(Tourist Trap 12) Picture Perfect Frame Lynn Cahoon 07/15/25

Row 5 (9)
(Lovely Lethal Gardens 1 Rewind) Zonked in the Zucchinis Dale Mayer 06/04/25
(Detective Elin Warner 2) The Retreat Sarah Pearse 06/16/25
(Greene Sisters 3) The Love Lyric Kristina Forest 06/25/25
(Alibis Collection 4) The Skydivers Chris Bohjalian 07/27/25
(Meant to Be 5) Worth Fighting For Jesse Q. Sutanto 06/21/25
(Tourist Trap 6) Murder on Wheels Lynn Cahoon 06/23/25
(Kiki Lowenstein 7) Picture, Perfect, Corpse Joanna Campbell Slan 07/07/25
(Tourist Trap 7.5) A Very Mummy Holiday Lynn Cahoon 07/03/25
(Tourist Trap 8) Hospitality and Homicide Lynn Cahoon 06/27/25

Row 6 (3)
(Tourist Trap 9) Killer Party Lynn Cahoon 06/02/25
(Melanie Travis 10) Best in Show Laurien Berenson 07/31/25
(Armstrong and Oscar 11) Murder at the Ponte Vecchio T.A. Williams 06/06/25

Row 7 (5)
(Common Threads 1) Mad About Ewe Susannah Nix 06/09/25
(Tourist Trap 2) Mission to Murder Lynn Cahoon 06/17/25
(An American in Paris 3) A Fashionably French Murder Colleen Cambridge 07/11/25
(Tourist Trap 4) Dressed to Kill Lynn Cahoon 06/19/25
(Melanie Travis 5) Watchdog Laurien Berenson 07/04/25

Row 8 (3)
(Rabbit Factor 1) The Rabbit Factor Antti Tuomainen 06/22/25
(Kate Shugak 2) A Fatal Thaw Dana Stabenow 07/05/25
(Kate Shugak 3) Dead in the Water Dana Stabenow 07/24/25

Row 9 (3)
(Heiress Heists 1) Heiress Takes All Emily Wibberley 06/28/25
(The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams 07/21/25
(The Body Farm 3) The Devil's Bones Jefferson Bass 07/27/25

Row 10 (3)
(Andy Carpenter 1) Open and Shut David Rosenfelt 06/28/25
(The Body Farm 2) Flesh and Bone Jefferson Bass 07/05/25
(Alibis Collection 3) False Note David Lagercrantz 07/29/25

[Vanessa]

As good as I got. Lots of ones, threes and fours, but only one two!

Ducks In A Row - Two Month Mini Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025

#1 - Ring #1 - Ring by Kōji Suzuki 6/20/25
#2 - Busybodies #2 - The Reunion Dinner by Jesse Q. Sutanto 7/8/25
#3 - Travel Can Be Murder #3 - Death by Windmill by Jennifer S. Alderson 7/6/25
#4 - Hercule Poirot #4 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 7/13/25

[LaurLa]

CHALLENGE COMPLETE -- 10 Rows/Sets - lots of connector books helped with lack of 3s and 6s!

Ducks In A Row
June - July 2025

My Ducks In A Row Challenge (msg 22)

Books Read ❱❱ 38
Duck Rows Completed ❱❱ 10

First Row of Ducks

🦆#1 Latvala Royals ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 06.05 ★★★★
🦆#2 Moving Violations ❱❱ Strong, Silent Cowboy ❱❱ 06.08 ★★★★
🦆#3 Driven ❱❱ Crashed ❱❱ 06.15 ★★★★
🦆#3.5 Anna Albertini Files ❱❱ Holiday Rescue ❱❱ 07.03 ★★★★
🦆#4 Philadelphia Patriots ❱❱ Curveball ❱❱ 06.27 ★★★★
🦆#4.7 Hard Ink ❱❱ Hard to Serve ❱❱ 07.27 ★★★★
🦆#5 Alien Huntress ❱❱ Ecstasy in Darkness ❱❱ 06.13 ★★★★

Second Row of Ducks

🦆#1 Destiny Bay 3: The Ranchers ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ 06.19 ★★★
🦆#2 Mail-Order Brides of the West ❱❱ Evie ❱❱ 06.30 ★★★
🦆#3 Beautiful Bastard ❱❱ Beautiful Player ❱❱ 06.10 ★★★★
🦆#3.5 Ice Planet Barbarians ❱❱ Ice Planet Honeymoon: Aehako & Kira ❱❱ 07.07 ★★★
🦆#4 Nocturne Falls ❱❱ The Professor Woos the Witch ❱❱ 07.25 ★★★
🦆#4.7 Elder Races ❱❱ Hunter's Season ❱❱ 07.10 ★★★★
🦆#5 Portville Omegaverse ❱❱ His Steamy Summer ❱❱ 07.14 ★★★

Third Row of Ducks

🦆#.1 Dorina Basarab ❱❱ Zombie's Bite ❱❱ 06.02 ★★★★
🦆#1 Invisible Recruits: Kelly McAllister ❱❱ Invisible Fears ❱❱ 06.16 ★★★★
🦆#2 Maverick Billionaires ❱❱ Reckless In Love ❱❱ 06.29 ★★★★

Fourth Row of Ducks

🦆#1 Shadow Ops ❱❱ Chasing Shadows ❱❱ 06.25 ★★★★
🦆#2 Man of My Dreams ❱❱ My Runaway Heart ❱❱ 06.11 ★★★
🦆#3 Magnus Pack ❱❱ Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ 07.02 ★★★★

Fifth Row of Ducks

🦆#1 Magic Happens ❱❱ Shadow Magic ❱❱ 06.24 ★★★
🦆#1.5 SEAL EXtreme Team ❱❱ Down and Dirty ❱❱ 06.29 ★★★
🦆#2 Jackson: Girls' Night Out ❱❱ Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 07.05 ★★★★

Sixth Row of Ducks

🦆#1 Seeing Red ❱❱ Seeing Red ❱❱ 07.09 ★★
🦆#1.3 Inside Out ❱❱ Rebecca's Lost Journals, Volume 3: His Submissive ❱❱ 06.11 ★★★
🦆#2 Mary O'Reilly ❱❱ Good Tidings ❱❱ 07.17 ★★★★

Seventh Row of Ducks

🦆#.5 Wedding Season ❱❱ The Wedding Dress Diaries ❱❱ 07.03 ★★★
🦆#1 Wounded ❱❱ Wounded ❱❱ 07.04 ★★★★
🦆#2 Bergman Brothers ❱❱ Always Only You ❱❱ 07.20 ★★★★

Eight Row of Ducks

🦆#6.5 Beyond ❱❱ Beyond Happily Ever After: Closed Doors ❱❱ 07.20 ★★★★
🦆#7 SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team ❱❱ Wolf Hunger ❱❱ 07.26 ★★★★
🦆#8 Hearts of the South ❱❱ Facing It ❱❱ 06.20 ★★★★

Ninth Row of Ducks

🦆#7 Colorado Mountain ❱❱ Bounty ❱❱ 06.08 ★★★★
🦆#8 Amelia Peabody ❱❱ The Hippopotamus Pool ❱❱ 06.19 ★★★★
🦆#9 Hearts of the South ❱❱ Uncovered ❱❱ 07.06 ★★★★

Tenth Row of Ducks

🦆#16 T-FLAC ❱❱ Gideon ❱❱ 06.14 ★★★★
🦆#16.75 Sarah Booth Delaney ❱❱ Clacking Bones ❱❱ 07.11 ★★★
🦆#17 Sarah Booth Delaney ❱❱ Sticks and Bones ❱❱ 07.27 ★★★★

[JoAnne]

Fabulous everyone!!

[Kendra]

Finished

Ducks In A Row (June/July)
Duration: June 1st, 2025 - July 31st, 2025

3/3

1. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa - July 5th (The Cat Who...)
2. The Dallergut Dream-Making District by Mi-ye Lee - July 2nd (Dallergut Dream Department Store)
3. Ever After Always by Chloe Liese - July 3rd (Bergman Brothers)

1. The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown by Julia Quinn, Karen Hawkins, Suzanne Enoch & Mia Ryan - June 6th (Lady Whistledown)
2. One Piece, Volume 2: Buggy the Clown by Eiichiro Oda - June 5th
3. Iron Kissed Dramatized Adaptation by Patricia Briggs - June 22nd (Mercy Thompson)
4. Lore Olympus: Volume Four by Rachel Smythe - June 11th
5. Everything for You by Chloe Liese - July 13th (Bergman Brothers)

1. Moon Called Dramatized Adaptation by Patricia Briggs - June 14th (Mercy Thompson)
2. Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood - June 13th (Not in Love)
3. Lore Olympus: Volume Three by Rachel Smythe - June 10th
4. Bone Crossed Dramatized Adaptation by Patricia Briggs - June 25th (Mercy Thompson)
5. Lore Olympus: Volume Five by Rachel Smythe - June 12th
6. If Only You by Chloe Liese - July 19th (Bergman Brothers)

4. With You Forever by Chloe Liese - July 11th (Bergman Brothers)
5. Silver Borne Dramatized Adaptation by Patricia Briggs - June 30th (Mercy Thompson)
6. Lore Olympus: Volume Six by Rachel Smythe - June 26th
7. Only and Forever by Chloe Liese - July 20th (Bergman Borthers)

6. River Marked Dramatized Adaptation by Patricia Briggs - July 6th (Mercy Thompson)
7. Lore Olympus: Volume Seven by Rachel Smythe - July 3rd
8. The Love Fix by Jill Shalvis - June 27th (Sunrise Cove)

[JoAnne]

WOOHOO Kendra!