CHOP IT UP: Last Chance Olive Ranch by Susan Wittig Albert

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2017 #MarchMysteryMadness TBR (Long Version)

First of all guys I want to apologize.  I wish (on everything I love) that I could make those simple, snappy videos.  Some people are so good at it.  But I’m long-winded at times.  When I look back at videos I wrestle with providing information on the book(s) or keeping matters as brief as possible.  But, at the end of the day, I hate just throwing books up without talking about them.  So, like last year, I just went ahead and made a short/long version of my 2017 #MarchMysteryMadness video.  It was the only way I could keep my sanity on this one.

Link to #MarchMysteryMadness TBR SHORT Version

Link to #MarchMysteryMadness TBR LONG Version

Anyway, add links and such to your TBR in the comments.  And let’s have fun!

As Whitney once said: “Love is a Contact Sport.”  So thanks for hanging out with me and ish.

#MarchMysteryMadness Goodreads Group

#MarchMysteryMadness on Twitter

#MarchMysteryMadness Co-host on the YouTube

Elizabeth on YouTube

Di on YouTube

My Blog Post on the Challenges

Books mentioned via Amazon (affiliate links):

1.  The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

2.  Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky

3.  Death Assemblage by Susan Cummins Miller

4.  My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

5.  Babysitter’s Club Mystery #26 by Ann M. Martin

6.  The Bride’s Kimono by Sujata Massey

7.  Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

8.  Hitler’s Furies by Wendy Lower

#MarchMysteryMadness Challenges & Link Video

2017 #MarchMysteryMadness Challenge

GROUP & LINKS

#MarchMysteryMadness GOODREADS GROUP

#MarchMysteryMadness on TWITTER

CO-HOSTS ON YOUTUBE

DI'S CHANNEL

DI'S BLOG POST

ELIZABETH'S CHANNEL

~~~~~ The Classic Mystery 50 Years or Older~~~~~

(Read a classic mystery from or before 1967)

“But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?

'You can usually tell,' said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.” 

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

There’s a phrase that’s been popular at lot less longer than these old classic pioneers of the mystery genre. It’s “she gets it from her mamma.” In this case, we’ve tumbled deep into getting it from our great-grandmothers and fathers. Now I’m not one to manage numbers well, but anyone shooting for Patricia Wentworth or Mary Roberts Rinehart will nail this one. Unless I’ve miscalculated once again.

But hey. The default is anything by Poe or Christie, right?

They’re always a safe bet. But who wants to be safe this year?

~~~~~ The First or Sequel~~~~~

(Read the first book in a series, or the sequel to another) 

“Even at a glance, even in this light, I could tell my friend was dead. He lay on his side in what common sense told me must be blood. Only it didn’t smell like blood.

My fingers clutched the flash. I stood for a moment, several moments. It seemed like hours. Finally I knelt and dipped my finger into the pool of liquid. It was thick and sticky. Paint. Bright-red house paint.

I straightened, wiping my finger on my jeans before I realized what I was doing.

‘Oh, Jake,’ I said, louder. My words echoed in the cavernous room, and then the old house enveloped me in ponderous silence. From outside came the bellow of foghorns on San Francisco Bay.”

The Cheshire Cat’s Eye by Marcia Muller

The question everyone wants to know is what happens next to our sleuth? What is the next logical or illogical step? Should the sleuth immediately call the police? Should the sleuth exam the body and, effectively, tamper evidence? Or the most important question: what is our sleuth's background? Or are you acquainted with his or her background and here for the next row of shenanigans? Or are you totally new to his or her system?

I guess the question is would you rather have new shoes or stick with your old hats?

#ReadSoulLit ~ 1st 100 Pages of Bedrock Faith

Up Date: "Y is For..." by Sue Grafton

Amazon finally gave us a summary of Sue Grafton's next-to-final Kinsey Millhone book, Y is for...

"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack.  Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace.
Now, it’s 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents—until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That’s when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he’s not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find… "

OUT AUGUST 22, 2017!