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I love the Mystery Genre and will be in for this one!Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
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Level 1: Break the code
1. The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
2. Swan Song by Edmund Crispin
Level 2: Shadow the suspect
3. The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
4. Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards
Level 3: Crack the case
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
7. The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Level 4: Chase the villain
8. The House of the Arrow by A.E.W. Mason
9. Murder by the Book by Rex Stout
10. The Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon
The 2020 Reading Challenge Group2020 Maxi Challenges > The Game is Afoot 2020
January 1, 2020 to December 1, 2020
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I really enjoy mysteries, so look forward to this challenge.Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
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One of my favorite genres!Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. A Study in Scarlet Women
2. You Belong to Me
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. Only the Rain
4. Unspeakable Things
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. No One Left to Tell
6. The Perfect Wife
7. Did You Miss Me?
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. Golden in Death
9. The 17th Suspect
10. Precious and Grace
Oh yes, count me in!Finished: 2021/05/04
Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith ✓
2. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith ✓
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. Schattenschrei by Erik Axl Sund ✓
4. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling ✓
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. Amethyst Dreams by Phyllis A. Whitney ✓
6. Eisbach by Nadine Petersen ✓
7. Der Teufel in dir by Richard Montanari ✓
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind ✓
9. Schuld und Sühne. Roman in sechs Teilen mit einem Epilog by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✓
10. One Dead by Chris Carter ✓
Life would be so boring without a good mystery from time to time. I'm in!Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. Georges Simenon - Au rendez-vous des Terre-Neuvas
2. Michael Kestemont - De zwarte koning
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. Moussa Konate - L'affaire des coupeurs de têtes
4. Luis Sepulveda - La Fin de l'histoire
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. E.C.R. Lorac - Fell Murder
6. Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 2
7. Jessica Fellowes - The Mitford Murders
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - My Soul to Take
9. Ann Cleeves - White Nights
10. Jacques Fortier - Chapitre fatal à la cathédrale
Start: January 1st, 2020Finish: December 31st, 2020
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I love a good mystery so I will join Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
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I don't know how I missed this one. I read tons of mysteries so count me in!Level 1 - Break the Code (2 books)
1. A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
2. The Drop by Michael Connelly
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 books)
3. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
4. Now May You Weep by Deborah Crombie
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 books)
5. Killer by Jonathan Kellerman
6. The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver
7. The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 books)
8. Dead on Arrival by Dorothy Simpson
9. The Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell
10.The Never Game by Jeffrey Deaver
Finished Round 1
I like this format - what I do is pick a book in my series of detective stories that I follow and it is helping me keep up.
2020 Maxi Challenges > The Game is Afoot 2020January 1, 2020 to December 1, 2020
Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository by John Connolly *Read Mar 8*
2. The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
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Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)1. Divided in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/2/2020
2. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - 1/5/2020
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. This Old Homicide by Kate Carlisle - 1/6/2020
4. The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen - 1/10/2020
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton - 1/10/2020
6. Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece by Rose Pressey- 1/12/2020
7. Penguins and Mortal Peril by Ruby Loren - 1/14/2020
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 1/15/2020
9. In the Dog House by V.M. Burns - 1/16/2020
10. Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye by Victoria Laurie - 1/17/2020
Explore the Mystery genre. This can also include suspense and thriller. Put together clues and chase down villains, because the game is now afoot! Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
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I am in! FAVE genre!Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
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Round 1: FINISHED 3/28Explore the Mystery genre. This can also include suspense and thriller. Put together clues and chase down villains, because the game is now afoot!
Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. Tin God - 1/13
2. Thirty-One and a Half Regrets - 1/20
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. All Good Deeds - 1/26
4. The Heist - 2/7
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. The Boy - 2/22
6. Thirty-Two and a Half Complications - 2/29
7. Body Of Proof - 3/10
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. See Them Run - 3/13
9. Then She Was Gone - 3/25
10. The Big Get-Even - 3/28
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Finished Level 4! Yay!(list is in message 8)
Congratulations, Cindy! Mystery and Fantasy are probably 2 of my favorite genres!
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Eileen wrote: "Congratulations, Cindy! Mystery and Fantasy are probably 2 of my favorite genres!"I love both .. also sci-fi and romance...oh, who am I kidding? I LOVE them all! It's kind of like my taste in music. I can't think of any type that I don't like something. (Yeah even heavy metal - I love Disturbed's version of Sounds of Silence). I really can't think of any genre I can't find something I like.
LOL, well I will admit that I like fiction better than nonfiction with the exception of some memoirs....
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Level 1- Break the code
11. Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
12. A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Level 2- Shadow the Suspect
13. Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon
14. The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
Level 3- Crack the Case
15. Poirot Loses a Client by Agatha Christie
16. A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie
17. The Great Airport Mystery by Franklin W. Dixon
Level 4 - Chase the villain
18. The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
19. The Mystery of the Green Ray by William Le Queux
20. Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie
Finished Round 2 on July 22.
Round 2 FINISHED 6/20Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. The Broken Girls - 4/5
2. Thirty-Three and a Half Shenanigans - 4/19
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. Murder at Archly Manor - 4/23
4. Gone to Die - 4/25
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. Rose and Helena Save Christmas - 5/7
6. The Last Secret of the Temple - 5/16
7. Ripple of Secrets - 5/25
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. All Fall Down - 5/28
9. The Keeper of Lost Causes - 6/14
10. Buried Deep - 6/20
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Thanks, Rosemarie!Rosemarie wrote: "Way to go, Brenda!"
Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)1. Mary, Mary
2. What Hurts the Most
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. Gone Girl
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Level 1
21. Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac
22. Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Level 2
23. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
24 The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie
Level 3
25. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
26. The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen
27. Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
Level 4:
28. The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
29. Black Run by Antonio Manzini
30. The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
Challenge finished on November 16
Round 3 FINISHED 9/13Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - 6/28
2. Blindsighted - 7/2
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. The Absent One - 7/10
4. Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments - 7/18
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. A Death at Eastwick - 7/21
6. Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer - 7/26
7. My Sister, the Serial Killer - 7/31
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. Broken - 8/23
9. Cold Cold Heart - 9/3
10. If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - 9/13
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Round 4: COMPLETEDLevel 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
1. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders - 9/20
2. Tell Me Lies - 9/22
Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
3. A Conspiracy of Faith - 9/23
4. Live by Night - 9/30
Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
5. Thirty-Five and a Half Conspiracies - 10/3
6. The Ruin - 10/16
7. Fair Warning - 11/8
Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
8. Thirty-Six and a Half Motives - 11/15
9. Untraceable - 11/19
10. Dead at Third - 11/25
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starting Round 2 in 2021Level 1 - Break the Code
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Good luck in your mystery reading! This is one of my favourite genres. I've already finished two in 2021.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (other topics)One Dead (other topics)
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Schuld und Sühne. Roman in sechs Teilen mit einem Epilog (other topics)
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Explore the Mystery genre. This can also include suspense and thriller. Put together clues and chase down villains, because the game is now afoot!
Level 1 - Break the Code (2 Books)
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Level 2 - Shadow the Suspect (4 Books)
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Level 3 - Crack the Case (7 Books)
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Level 4 - Chase the Villain (10 Books)
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