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John wrote: "If you're looking for a Nevada suggestion, Tom Schreck's THE VEGAS KNOCKOUT was entertaining."Thanks, John. Just finished it. A good, quick read.
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT)
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
I don't if you consider a book partially based in a state as qualifying, but SUICIDE SQUEEZE by RW Bennett is a thriller set partially in West Virginia.
Linda wrote: "Matt, looks like you still have a spot for South Carolina. DEAR KILLER, my Marley Clark mystery/thriller, is set in the SC Lowcountry. Marley is a retired military intelligence officer who is worki..."Linda, I just downloaded the Kindle version last night. I read Chapter One. I liked the inventive way you staged the victim.
Glad you liked it, Matt. Had lots of fun with this book and all the crime scenes. Hope you find the scenes to come as interesting.
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT)
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
Boy, are you a fast reader! I'm delighted that you read Dear Killer for South Carolina and liked it. Are you planning a 50 countries list next? Or will you start over with the states?
Hi Matthew. If you're still looking for West Virginia, Hellbender by Jason Jack Miller is a thriller set there.Matthew wrote: "Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska My..."
Linda wrote: "Boy, are you a fast reader! I'm delighted that you read Dear Killer for South Carolina and liked it. Are you planning a 50 countries list next? Or will you start over with the states?"Hi Linda, when I finish my USA road trip, I plan on doing a mystery world tour.
One the rules I've stuck with for the challenge was to read authors I hadn't read before. I have found some authors that I have really enjoyed (such as yourself) and others I wish I would have passed on.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD) - Kathleen Taylor, Funeral Food, Started 6/14/13, Finished 6/18/13, Rated 2/5
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
How did you acquire that USA graphic and use it?
Wow! What a great challenge for yourself! Great idea and now lots for me to add to my TBR!
Wendy wrote: "How did you acquire that USA graphic and use it?"Here's the link Wendy. You can create a map for the US or other parts of the world. We can also change the colors of the map. I actually found the map on someone else's challenge and thought it was a good idea.
Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com
Ann wrote: "Wow! What a great challenge for yourself! Great idea and now lots for me to add to my TBR!"Thanks, Ann. I have about 5 books left to finish the US, then I'm off on a world tour.
Wendy wrote: "http://www.librarything.com/topic/12324Massive list for State and International Challenges
I tried this link and it didn't list the massive list -- the link said it was dormant.
For West Virginia - read Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam -- really good read and a movie was based on it.And he was from there.
chris, I am currently on my mobile. I will find the newest link once on my laptop.
Stephen wrote: "Don't give up on Vermont yet:http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Cant-Ke..."
Thanks for the suggestion, Stephen. For VT, I read Cold Dawn by Carla Neggars. Wish I would have had your suggestion first.
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI) - Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery), Started 6/18/13, Finished 6/20/13, Rated 4/5
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD) - Kathleen Taylor, Funeral Food, Started 6/14/13, Finished 6/18/13, Rated 2/5
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH) - Felicia Donovan, The Black Widow Agency, Started 6/21/13, Finished 6/21/13, Rated 4/5
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI) - Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery), Started 6/18/13, Finished 6/20/13, Rated 4/5
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD) - Kathleen Taylor, Funeral Food, Started 6/14/13, Finished 6/18/13, Rated 2/5
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
Chris wrote: "Wendy wrote: "http://www.librarything.com/topic/12324Massive list for State and International Challenges
I tried this link and it didn't list the massive list -- the link said it was dormant."
http://www.librarything.com/topic/123240 just checked...misssed an 0!
Chris wrote: "Wendy wrote: "http://www.librarything.com/topic/12324Massive list for State and International Challenges
I tried this link and it didn't list the massive list -- the link said it was dormant."
oops missed a 0.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/123240
Chris wrote: "Wendy wrote: "http://www.librarything.com/topic/12324Massive list for State and International Challenges
I tried this link and it didn't list the massive list -- the link said it was dormant."
oops http://www.librarything.com/topic/123240
Matthew wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Don't give up on Vermont yet:http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Cant-Ke......"
Me, too, but I would appreciate a review nonetheless.
Sorry, Stephen. I didn't realize it was your book. I thought it was just a suggestion. Is it available for the Kindle?
Absolutely. I hope you can give it a good review. It's my first contemporary mystery.
Matthew wrote: "Less than 20 to go! ANy suggestions for the following?YES! For NJ try this new Mystery Writer I discovered Brad Parks - his first book is "Faces of the Gone" He won a Nero Award for Best American Mystery and a Shamus Award. He has written several mysteries now. I find his books easy to read and entertaining, is main character Carter Ross is a Journalist in Newark NJ. Great Read!!
Paige
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH) - Felicia Donovan, The Black Widow Agency, Started 6/21/13, Finished 6/21/13, Rated 4/5
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK) - Jean Hager, Ravenmocker (Molly Bearpaw #1), Started 6/22/13, Finished 6/24/23, Rated 3/5
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI) - Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery), Started 6/18/13, Finished 6/20/13, Rated 4/5
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD) - Kathleen Taylor, Funeral Food, Started 6/14/13, Finished 6/18/13, Rated 2/5
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
Thought I'd let Matt's challenge followers know that his SC read (DEAR KILLER) is FREE for the firt time on Amazon Kindle from 6/25-6/28. Hope you enjoy the mystery--they first in a series featuring Marley Clark, a 52-year-old retired military intelligence officer. Here's the link: amazon.com/dp/B00CTAQDR8
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH) - Felicia Donovan, The Black Widow Agency, Started 6/21/13, Finished 6/21/13, Rated 4/5
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK) - Jean Hager, Ravenmocker (Molly Bearpaw #1), Started 6/22/13, Finished 6/24/23, Rated 3/5
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI) - Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery), Started 6/18/13, Finished 6/20/13, Rated 4/5
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD) - Kathleen Taylor, Funeral Food, Started 6/14/13, Finished 6/18/13, Rated 2/5
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV) - Lauren Carr, A Small Case of Murder, Started 6/21/13, Finished 7/5/13, Rated 3/5
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
CHALLENGE COMPLETED 7/15/13
Alabama (AL) - Anne George, Murder on a Girls' Night Out (A Southern Sisters Mystery #1), Started 8/16/12, Finished 8/18/12, Rated 3.5/5
Alaska (AK) - Mike Doogan, Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery), Started 8/18/12, Finished 8/19/12, Rated 4/5
Arizona (AZ) - David Cole, Butterfly Lost, Started 9/7/12, Finished 9/9/12, Rated 2.5/5
Arkansas (AR) - Joan Hess, Strangled Prose, Started 9/5/12, Finished 9/6/12, Rated 2/5
California (CA) - Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, Started 8/19/12, FInished 8/20/12, Rated 4/5
Colorado (CO) - Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear #1), Started 9/13/12, Finished 9/15/12, Rated 2/5
Connecticut (CT) - Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (Cora Felton #1), Started 9/15/12, Finished 9/20/12, Rated 2/5
Delaware (DE) - Hunter Morgan, Unspoken Fear, Started 10/20/12, Finished 10/25/12, Rated 3/5
District of Columbia (DC) - David Baldacci, The Camel Club, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/7/12, Rated 3/5
Florida (FL) - Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Storm Serge #1), Started 9/21/12, Finished 9/27/12, Rated 3/5
Georgia (GA) - Judy Fitzgerald, Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh#1), Started 9/28/12, Finished 9/29/12, Rated 3/5
Hawaii (HI) - Douglas Corleone, One Man's Paradise, Started 9/29/12, Finished 10/6/12, Rated 4/5
Idaho (ID) - Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, Started 11/8/12, Finished 11/12/12, Rated 3/5
Illinois (IL) - Sean Chercover, Big City Bad Blood, Started 8/20/12, Finished 8/22/12, Rated 4/5
Indiana (IN) - Rick Reed, The Cruelest Cut (Jack Murphy #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/28/12, Rated 2/5
Iowa (IA) - Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (An Ophelia and Abby Mystery #1), Started 10/29/12, Finished 10/29/12, Rated 2/5
Kansas (KS) - Gillian Flynn, Dark Places, Started 1/20/13, Finished 1/25/13, Rated 2/5
Kentucky (KY) - E Joan Sims, Cemetery Silk, Started 2/2/13, Finished 2/8/13, Rated 2/5
Louisiana (LA) - james Lee Burke, Creole Belle (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery), Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/12/12, Rated 4/5
Maine (ME) - Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny, Started 3/3/13, Finished 3/3/13, Rated 2/5
Maryland (MD) - Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues, Started 4/14/13, Finished 4/22/13, Rated 2/5
Massachusetts (MA) - Tess Gerritsen, Body Double, Started 4/25/13, Finished 4/27/13, Rated 3/5
Michigan (MI) - Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck (A Gertie Johnson Murder Mystery #1), Started 10/26/12, Finished 10/26/12, Rated 3/5
Minnesota (MN) - Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1), Started 3/6/13, Finished 3/7/13, Rated 3/5
Mississippi (MS) - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, Started 8/23/12, Finished 8/24/12, Rated 3/5
Missouri (MO) - Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Started 10/30/12, Finished 11/20/12, Rated 2/5
Montana (MT) - Sharon Dunn, Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mystery #1), Started 4/23/13, Finished 4/24/13, Rated 2/5
Nebraska (NE) - Sean Doolittle, Rain Dogs, Started 8/22/12, Finished 8/23/12, Rated 3/5
Nevada (NV) - Tom Schreck, The Vegas Knockout (The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries #4), Started 5/27/13, Finished 5/28/13, Rated 4/5
New Hampshire (NH) - Felicia Donovan, The Black Widow Agency, Started 6/21/13, Finished 6/21/13, Rated 4/5
New Jersey (NJ) - David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut, Started 5/17/13, Finished 5/26/13, Rated 3/5
New Mexico (NM) - Christine Barber, The Bone Fire, Started 4/8/13, Finished 4/14/13, Rated 3/5
New York (NY) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Started 8/28/12, Finished 8/31/12, Rated 2/5
North Carolina (NC) - J.D. Rhoades, The Devil's Right Hand, Started 9/3/12, Finished 9/4/12, Rated 3/5
North Dakota (ND) - John Early, Flesh and Metal, Started 7/14/13, Finished 7/15/13, Rated 2/5
Ohio (OH) - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye, Started 2/9/13, Finished 2/16/13, Rated 3/5
Oklahoma (OK) - Jean Hager, Ravenmocker (Molly Bearpaw #1), Started 6/22/13, Finished 6/24/23, Rated 3/5
Oregon (OR) - PJ Alderman, A Killing Tide, Started 3/20/13, Finished 3/21/13, Rated 3/5
Pennsylvania (PA) - J.R. Lindermuth, Corruption's Child, Started 4/30/13, Finished 5/2/13, Rated 4/5
Rhode Island (RI) - Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery), Started 6/18/13, Finished 6/20/13, Rated 4/5
South Carolina (SC) - Linda Lovely, Dear Killer, Started 5/30/13, Finished 6/3/13, Rated 3/5
South Dakota (SD) - Kathleen Taylor, Funeral Food, Started 6/14/13, Finished 6/18/13, Rated 2/5
Tennessee (TN) - Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone (The Body Farm #1), Started 3/14/13, Finished 3/18/13, Rated 4/5
Texas (TX) - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet #1), Started 2/19/13, Finished 2/21/13, Rated 2/5
Utah (UT) - Cheryl Bradshaw, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe #1), Started 9/2/12, Finished 9/3/12, Rated 3/5
Vermont (VT) - Carla Neggars, Cold Dawn (Black Forest #3), Started 6/4/13, Finished 6/10/13, Rated 2/5
Virginia (VA) - Alan Jacobson, The 7th Victim, Started 5/2/13, Finished 5/16/13, Rated 4/5
Washington (WA) - Jess Walter, Citizen Vince, Started 8/25/12, Finished 8/26/12, Rated 3.5/5
West Virginia (WV) - Lauren Carr, A Small Case of Murder, Started 6/21/13, Finished 7/5/13, Rated 3/5
Wisconsin (WI) - Kathleen Ernst, Old World Murder, Started 11/11/12, Finished 11/15/12
Wyoming (WY) - Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish (Longmire #1), Started 1/3/13, Finished 1/16/13, Rated 3/5/13
congrats how long did it take? I still have about 20 to go.
Wendy, please let me know when Vermont gets close.
Hi Wendy, it took just under a year. However in that time I also read the complete Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games triology, and several other books.
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